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Tempers flare as millions in California endure power outages from PG&E
LA Times ^ | October 10. 2019 | Taryn Luna, Maria L. La Ganga, Patrick McGreevy, Joseph Serna

Posted on 10/10/2019 6:54:32 AM PDT by C19fan

Classes were canceled. Frozen foods melted. Hospitals switched to emergency generators. Blooms withered in florists’ coolers. Unused food was jettisoned at shuttered restaurants. Lines formed at gas stations. Cellphones faded out. That’s what happened Wednesday when the state’s largest utility shut off power to millions of Californians in a drastic attempt to avoid the killer wildfires that have charred hundreds of thousands of acres, caused billions of dollars in damage and spurred cries for widespread change in how electricity is delivered over the state’s aging grid.

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TOPICS: Weather
KEYWORDS: california; fire; humor; irony; karma; prepper; preppers; shtf
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To: C19fan

You got that right! Those people in Commiefornia have been asking for this kind of crap for years. I have absolutely no sympathy at all for them. “Play Stupid games, win Stupid prizes”.


21 posted on 10/10/2019 7:03:06 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: C19fan

What? This is your utopia Environmental Fascists! Think what a small carbon foot print you all will have for days. Lie back and think of Gaia!


22 posted on 10/10/2019 7:03:27 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: gr8eman

“Funny they’re ALL blaming the power company! How many Marxists in Sacramento does it take to run a power grid?!”

It’s one of the sad, scary defining characteristics of the left. It’s their inability to comprehend that there are consequences for their policies.


23 posted on 10/10/2019 7:03:34 AM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

The killed logging in the 1980s and this is what you get....Trump should sell all forest service land to private owners....You do not see this in the SE because most forest land is privately owned...and trees are worth money if taken care of


24 posted on 10/10/2019 7:03:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: cymbeline
It’s almost like California’s leaders are trying to get people to leave the state.

Make California Mexico Again

25 posted on 10/10/2019 7:04:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: C19fan

Get used to it. As utilities are forced to use unreliable, costly “green” sources of electricity, there will be many “wildfire risk” excuses for regular blackouts.


26 posted on 10/10/2019 7:04:59 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: cymbeline

It’s like agenda 21 in action.


27 posted on 10/10/2019 7:05:21 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: C19fan

More importantly, did it impact people using EBT Cards?


28 posted on 10/10/2019 7:05:41 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: C19fan

The power lines fail in high winds and start afire, the forest is and has been wildly overgrown for 15 years, millions of tons of dead trees. brush. All of it Forbidden by Law and Court Decisions to clean up and manage.

12,000 people lose their homes from the raging, out of control wildfire fueled bu all this mismanagement of our forests, so they SUE the Power Company and force them into Bankruptcy.

If I ran the Power Company I would DISCONNECT your Power PERMANENTLY, all the Transmission Lines from the Power Plant would be on EBAY tomorrow. You want Electricity you BUY and MAINTAIN the Lines from OUR PLANT!!!


29 posted on 10/10/2019 7:05:48 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: C19fan

No that is what happened to those who ignored days and days of warnings, did not prepare and then were surprised when the power went off. We’re two days into this and it’s kind of fun. Like camping.


30 posted on 10/10/2019 7:06:40 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: C19fan

You wanted a Commie paradise...so now suck on it. But don’t worry, you’re safe from plastic straws.


31 posted on 10/10/2019 7:06:53 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: C19fan

Is this something out of an Ayn Rand novel, or what?


32 posted on 10/10/2019 7:07:16 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Hillary has more mysterious deaths around her than Jessica Fletcher.)
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To: C19fan
You mean like in the Twilight Zone episode where a couple of martians decided to stir up chaos on earth by shutting off the power?

Yeah, I can believe it.

33 posted on 10/10/2019 7:07:16 AM PDT by OKSooner (Free Beer Tomorrow)
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To: C19fan

Atlas Shrugged for real...


34 posted on 10/10/2019 7:07:20 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: C19fan

Just like the fires, CA is going to blame someone else other than themselves.
Look for more lawsuits against PGE


35 posted on 10/10/2019 7:07:34 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: C19fan

This article is hysterical. Also cell phone service is not affected.

Panic sells.


36 posted on 10/10/2019 7:07:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior (I am a victim of racism every time I am called a racist because of my race.)
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To: C19fan

This is what you get from worshiping the forests for 40 years.


37 posted on 10/10/2019 7:08:17 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: C19fan

I bet all the illegal immigrants must feel at home. Ca is turning into a turd world country just like where they fled from.


38 posted on 10/10/2019 7:08:54 AM PDT by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: C19fan

It will only speed up progressives fleeing California and bringing the infection of their Left wing politics to further harm the rest of us.

Soon what will remain will see to be the homeless, the ever more entitled and/or belligerent Illegal Aliens, the very rich and the people in east California.


39 posted on 10/10/2019 7:09:39 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: GSWarrior

And still no wind to speak of.


40 posted on 10/10/2019 7:09:53 AM PDT by GSWarrior (I am a victim of racism every time I am called a racist because of my race.)
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