we have high winds in colorado all the time; not ONCE has the power been deliberately shutdown for that reason since i arrived here in 1975 ... i’m sure it’s happened, but i don’t recall forest fires being sparked by power lines ... 99% of our forest fires are due to:
1. lightening strikes
2. campers careless with campfires
3. hot catalytic converters
4. arson by nutjobs
Since I was a kid the winds blow this time of year, like late September up through January...Every year and after long hot summers everything is dry as s**t. Big surprise!!
Its a failed state in every direction, run by extreme liberals who now are trying to convince everyone this is all something new, all caused by global warming to cover their epic mismanagement of everything...Why, these are not just winds, these are horrific winds created by man, petroleum and pickup trucks.
“we have high winds in colorado all the time; not ONCE has the power been deliberately shutdown for that reason since i arrived here in 1975”
Same story in all the other Western states.
It’s comical what Californians think is “extreme”. The daytime temp goes over 85 and they start fluttering and fainting and declaring an end to the world.
The high winds in Sonoma have been going on forever. Most of the time the fires AREN’T started by wires falling. One of the bigger ones was started by an illegal who was upset at the injustice of his life back in 2016.
Nobody mentions that. It’s more profitable to blame PGE, and they make a good target because they ARE a bunch of miscreants who won’t fix their equipment but spend all their time trying to jack up the rates so they can pay fatter dividends.
And that’s all the power outages are about: wirebrushing the peons into accepting higher rates.
We also have politicians, even democrat politicians, who used to be against logging, but now have seen the light that it is not a good idea to have millions of beetle killed trees just standing around until they burn.
Over the last ten years we have built a small but productive and necessary logging industry. Our beetle killed wood, once thought to be unsellable, has even turned into a fashion statement.
