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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I’ll meet you
Halfway,
In BakersField.
Some of us have been saying this for years and are already skilled in areas our grandparents took for granted as common knowledge.
We are regaining those lost skills.
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Prepper Ping - Certain areas of the U.S.A.(Calif.) are becoming similar to Venezuela
Controlled 'brown-outs' or absolute power curtailment controlled by the State,
due to environmental weenies, or corporate utility facing possible bankruptcy, or,
State bureaucrats who make asinine demands out of ignorance.
When the bureaucrats are more concerned about replacing SNAP benefits
than concern about the common voter food loss in their refrigerators,
you know that their priorities are about maintaining their power and control.
Welcome to TURD WORLD ECONOMICS !
It all comes down to this :
Either Invest in a Home generator ($5200.oo), or
Invest in new State representatives who think that they are smarter than you !
Let Common sense be your guide before you become Venezuela, or,
before the stupidity spreads elswewhere !
The other 49 states are having this issue.
The other 49 states are NOT having this issue.
What it all boils down to is liberal 'elites' WANT to make the lives of middle class Americans miserable.
Republican run states don’t have these third world problems... we don’t have ‘homeless’ pooping in our streets and we don’t have massive power turnoffs.
mMybe it’s not ‘global warming’ - - maybe it’s idiots elected democrats.
Republican run states don’t have these third world problems... we don’t have ‘homeless’ pooping in our streets and we don’t have massive power turnoffs.
Maybe it’s not ‘global warming’ - - maybe it’s idiots electing democrats.
City owned utilities aren’t always a bad thing. My SoCal city owns its power company. We have much lower rates than our surrounding cities served by SoCal Edison. And we haven’t had any power shutoffs. Knock on wood.
“I was planning on leaving but it’s looking like no matter where you go you’ll have to stand your ground”
It’s much easier if you are surrounded with Patriots in a red state.
Excellent post!
We are going to invest in a stand by generator this summer-I think. The problem will be fuel. We are all electric and I'm not sure what's available-likely have to set up a propane tank. In a long term power outage, I'd also like the option to be able to turn it off to conserve fuel.
Like maybe turn it on once a week to power the well pump and fill up the barrels and take a shower. Then shut it off.
I'd like to have a generator that would work on propane, solar and wind. Not sure they make it. LOL
If statements concerning the state of our electrical grid are true, the governments in the cities, counties, and states, need to give great consideration to generators for essential services.
I remember a time when we did not have refrigerators and freezers in the home. There was an ice house, and the refrigerator was an “ICE BOX”. People rented a space(LOCKER) for frozen food at the local LOCKER PLANT.
Is it really too much to cut down the trees adjacent to the powerlines so shorts and other sparking events won’t cause the fires?
It’s funny that CA liberals are having to learn to do without electricity.
When the power goes out here, I call it practicing.
I believe that "Harbor Freight" offers a convertible pigtail ,
so that you can switch between natural gas and propane for a generator.
There may also be a conversion kit for gasoline conversion to diesel
(which is actually, #2 home heating oil taxed for DOT road use).
Long term storage of gas or diesel requires "Stabil' (fuel stabilizer).
You forgot to include the 'saboteurs' and 'hooligans'. I suspect you can add 'gun owners' to the list, too.
Wow, how Cali has changed from mostly dream to largely nightmare, all because of ‘progressive’ voters, politicians and policies. So sad.
Hopefully FR’s servers in Fresno have dependable power!
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