In the oil and natural gas industries, all segments continue to report incident-free. Russia's major Black Sea oil export port, Novorossiisk, has been temporarily closed to shipping due to high winds, but this is not expected to impact world oil supplies. Overall, electric power systems in the United States and Canada continue to report a normal status. Bonneville has indicated that the tower guy wires appear to have been deliberately loosened. The transmission tower is on the ground, but no conductors were broken.
Probable sabotage is suspected.
Bonneville will inspect the whole transmission line at first light. They hope to get the line back in service sometime today. Power delivery to California and the Pacific Northwest is not expected to be affected. There have so far been no signs that Americans are unnecessarily stockpiling gasoline. So far, consumption is about where it was a year ago.