It is no secret America’s infrastructure is in need of upgrade. Roads, bridges, water treatment facilities, underground and overhead utility assets generally need to be replaced or retro-fitted. The preventative maintenance programs that exist are not keeping up with system growth. There is just not enough money, trained professionals, or time to accomplish this task before a major failure will overtake one or more of the systems involved. Using limited knowledge and minimum financial resources the local power grid could be successfully compromised and exploited into a much larger scale coordinated attack on the national grid. This talk will identify the physical weaknesses and describe a hypothetical attack with its possible outcome, as well as how we prevent these sorts of attacks.