Russia did attack the grid, we were screwed. The Department of Homeland Security had emergency preparedness plans for natural disasters, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, and power outages that spanned days. But there was no grand master plan for a cyberattack that denied power to millions of people for any sustained period. Intelligence officials had warned Congress, time and time again, that a carefully orchestrated cyberattack on the American grid could unleash outages for at least months, if not years.
