Posted on 12/25/2019 7:43:53 AM PST by karpov
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Joe Fatula left the Bay Area in 2017 wanting to settle down in the mountains somewhere quiet. He chose Colfax, a small town rich with Gold Country history, and became mayor last year with the goal of boosting business on Main Street.
But his sanctuary turned apocalyptic in October. Every gas station, grocery store and restaurant closed due to massive power shutoffs as part of the state's efforts to avoid a major wildfire. The mayor found himself loaning out his personal pickup truck and RV, which have built-in generators, to the town's 2,000 residents as they scrambled to save food in their refrigerators, charge their phones and find a way to stay warm.
At all levels of government — from state officials to small-town mayors — California leaders are in uncharted territory, and scrambling to adjust their plans and operations to the realities of regular disruption. For now, their only answer to calamitous wildfires is shutting off power to millions of residents in advance, which residents now lament as a man-made disaster. Mike McGuire, the state senator representing the Santa Rosa area devastated by fires in 2017, said California is “the canary in the coal mine" as climate change threatens to upend life across the world.
Residents in some of California's most bucolic settings are stuck figuring it out on their own, rich and poor, urban and rural alike. While Fatula navigated his working-class community with generators in his pickup, NBA star LeBron James was forced to flee his estate near Los Angeles in the middle of the night, "driving around with my family trying to get rooms," he said in a tweet.
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Probably came from NY.
That's California in the 21st century!
That's what "liberalism" ("progressivism," whatever the newspeak nom de la semaine) has to offer!
If California were not propped up by the sane world outside it, California would already have collapsed into a Dark Age, where disease is rampant, civilization is lost, and the law of the jungle prevails.
And the ultimate chutzpah is those responsible for all this evil accusing those who oppose it of being un-Christian!
Not a LeBron fan, but I think he evacuated because of the wildfire, not electricity shut down.
Let’s not beat around any bushes. The state is starting to condition the rubes to EXPECT spotty energy. By deliberately restricting the production and conveyance of the current energy grid, they can remove their fossil fuel produced electric plants and replace them with the unreliable wind and solar sources. At this point, Californians will be so conditioned to the spotty outages that there will be no difference between those outages and the expected outages that wind and solar will produce.
Conditioning. And indoctrination. This is why California resembles Venezuela more than America. Pure and simple. Some government officials may be stupid, perhaps most of them, but they are in lockstep with the Communist Manifesto.
Full of people who don’t speak English and intermittent power. Sounds like Zimbabwe. Y’all enjoy!
Probably blew all his money on Bentleys and bling.
The worst thing that happened to California was the death of the defense industry there. All those engineers and clear thinkers became unemployed and moved out leaving a large majority of academics, techies and other liberals and hanger ons. The good people outside the cities were stuck, you can’t roll up your farmlands or ranches so they are slowly being swallowed alive.
My heart hurts for them.
A generator would have done him no good. His house was in an evacuation zone because of fires.
As the elite liberal fascists via climate change threaten to upend life across the world and not for the better.
Saw a Bumper Sticker that said, “We don’t care how you did it in California.”
This is a preview of the Green New Deal.
That’s a bit different than the story read and makes more sense
Born in SoCal,,,
Headed to
You’re Neighborhood!
I want to move
Next Door
To You!
.
You can borrow
My lawn Mower!
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Welcome to the third world territory that use to be referred to as the “Golden State.”
‘Fake climate change’ = ‘excuse for incompetence’...
Reminds me of the old joke...What did Californians use before they had candles? Ans: ELECTRICITY!
IMHO propane is superior, because I can store my supply on-site.
When you hook your generator up to the natural gas supply you are dependent on someone else to keep the gas flowing in that pipe.
Sure enough, if the natural gas supply keeps up it will last longer, but I already own the propane I have on site.
Filling gas cans for generators is it’s own disaster. Hard to get gas out of California nozzles to fill a can without spilling all over the place.
Bet many Californians store gas now in unsafe areas.
This state is INCAPABLE with finding solutions to what they’ve caused.
The voters here will get what they deserve.
I live in a rural area and immune from power, water and food worries.
Of course I’m a conservative that can actually think and have prepared myself for this long ago
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