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How power shutoffs are changing California's way of life
Politico ^ | December 25, 2019 | MACKENZIE MAYS, ANGELA HART and COLBY BERMEL

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: blackouts; california; commiefornia; gavinnewsom; generators; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; jerrybrown; karma; prepper; preppers; wildfires
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To: CurlyDave

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.


61 posted on 12/25/2019 9:28:32 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Big Red Badger

I too was born in this state.

I’ll stay and fight.


62 posted on 12/25/2019 9:30:26 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: karpov

They are finding out what life under socialism is like. I wonder how many will still vote DemocRat?


63 posted on 12/25/2019 9:34:05 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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To: HighSierra5

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.


64 posted on 12/25/2019 9:35:15 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: karpov

“which residents now lament as a man-made disaster.”

Another time gender neutral isn’t used. Along with “gunman.”


65 posted on 12/25/2019 9:50:16 AM PST by Luke21
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To: karpov

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


66 posted on 12/25/2019 10:00:47 AM PST by joma89
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To: dfwgator

MARK McGuire--beefy steroid man, not Mike McGuire, Californian pencil neck soi boi!

67 posted on 12/25/2019 10:06:46 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Darteaus94025

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.


68 posted on 12/25/2019 10:12:14 AM PST by tbw2
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To: karpov

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.


69 posted on 12/25/2019 10:13:02 AM PST by tbw2
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To: karpov
"...California is “the canary in the coal mine" as climate change liberalism threatens to upend life across the world."
70 posted on 12/25/2019 10:26:15 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: karpov

It would be very entertaining to see LA and sanfransicko have their power shut off for a week or longer.


71 posted on 12/25/2019 10:33:05 AM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
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To: PIF

nice curve.


72 posted on 12/25/2019 10:44:53 AM PST by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Alas Babylon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AggeSjZwx6s


73 posted on 12/25/2019 11:09:19 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Bwahahahaha!!!

Tedward Kennedy. What a fat, loathsome, murdering drunk.

Also, dead.


74 posted on 12/25/2019 11:45:04 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: oldasrocks

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.


75 posted on 12/25/2019 12:00:08 PM PST by KamperKen
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To: KamperKen

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.


76 posted on 12/25/2019 12:45:43 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: karpov

“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?


77 posted on 12/25/2019 1:10:55 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: headstamp 2

“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?


78 posted on 12/25/2019 1:13:26 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: karpov

“plenty of ideas: move power lines underground; microgrids”

those two together would probably cost only a few trillion dollars ...


79 posted on 12/25/2019 1:16:30 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: karpov

“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 ...


80 posted on 12/25/2019 1:20:00 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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