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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Well yeah you are not dependent on a gas company that’s true but if you are in a community that uses NG and it becomes unavailable at the same the power is out I’d say wherever you are is in crises. Comfort and spoiled food may not be your biggest problems.
I too was born in this state.
I’ll stay and fight.
They are finding out what life under socialism is like. I wonder how many will still vote DemocRat?
And the growing season!
You can grow something year round, and pick every variety of citrus during the holiday season.
BIL caught a 3 and 4 pound Rainbow trout yesterday in Don Pedro lake.
“which residents now lament as a man-made disaster.”
Another time gender neutral isn’t used. Along with “gunman.”
Leftists is government are your enemy, folks. That is a fact and I recommend buying weapons and ammo. I have simply studied too much history to hope that a peaceful solution xan be found. It can not.
JoMa
MARK McGuire--beefy steroid man, not Mike McGuire, Californian pencil neck soi boi!
Blame the boogeyman climate and industrial civilization ... not your own party’s environmentalists who wouldn’t let you clear brush OR save up water to better fight fires.
One practical impact of this is that solar power installations will either stall (I think they’re mandated by CA state law) or people will pay the couple of thousand extra for a Powerwall/battery system.
The default solar panel arrangement just connects to the grid. Grid down, and you have no power for your house.
It would be very entertaining to see LA and sanfransicko have their power shut off for a week or longer.
nice curve.
Bwahahahaha!!!
Tedward Kennedy. What a fat, loathsome, murdering drunk.
Also, dead.
The coming failures will be blamed on ‘wreckers, hoarders and kulaks’. The solution to the failures will be to liquidate all of the above in the grand tradition of their inspiration, Stalin.
Haven’t the majority of cali voters voted for decaces for the same loser leftist nitwits? I guess that is how it going to be. Oh, well.
“How power shutoffs are changing California’s way of life”
finally provides them the reduction in their “carbon footprint” they’ve been fighting so hard for, right?
“California is the canary in the coal mine”
and why exactly is California uniquely more susceptible to “climate change” than 99.99999999999999999% of the rest of Earth?
“plenty of ideas: move power lines underground; microgrids”
those two together would probably cost only a few trillion dollars ...
“How power shutoffs are changing California’s way of life”
from reading this article, i gather that Californians are in the process of adapting to how life is in a third world country ...
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