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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

Irony - The power is off in those parts of the state that voted for President Trump!

Keep that in mind when you make your silly comments.

The Democrat power base is in San Francisco, Los Angeles and the University cities were part time citizens vote socialist.

The rest of the state are more conservatives.

It is time the state is divided into at least two perhaps three.


81 posted on 10/10/2019 7:47:05 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Harpotoo

PGE should have not only closed up shop, but first addressed debts by dismantling infrastructure and selling it as recyclable scrap.


82 posted on 10/10/2019 7:47:39 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: jeannineinsd
Well, it appears that site “reimagines” the original article to get around copyrights. I read it, but started laughing.

Your mileage may vary.

83 posted on 10/10/2019 7:47:47 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Hojczyk
Thats right! I live in southern Oregon and the biggest mill and employer for our county has divested every holding of timber land they owned in CA, 1031 exchanged it to North Carolina. Now they are working on divesting all their timber lands in Oregon next, to North Carolina. Roseburg Forest Products is building a new engineered wood plant in North Carolina, a right to work state that allows timber companies to harvest timber.

Last year the Democrat/Marxist legislature enacted a "gross receipts tax" on every business that does more than a million dollars in gross revenue. So before payroll, or insurance or any expense, they have pay tax on any money taken in over 1 million, oh and that is a reversal of what voters rejected 4 years ago!

84 posted on 10/10/2019 7:47:59 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: bray

I think that I shall never see a thing more combustible than a tree,
A tree protected from fire for years as piles of rubbish around it fills
A tree in drought with little water
A tree where lightning above proceeds
A tree where campfires below may be
A tree though beautiful it may be
Is worshipped by tree huggers like thee


85 posted on 10/10/2019 7:48:16 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

As soon as people started suing PSE&G for damages from wildfires, these blackouts became inevitable.

It just doesn’t make sense for PSE&G to sell power on high wind/high risk days. The money they make does not cover the financial risk if they are going to be held responsible for all fire damage in the area.

You either immunize the utility and let them provide power all the time, or you treat them like any other business, and they will provide power when it is to their advantage, and shut it off when the financial risk is too high.

California has chosen the latter option. Now they must deal with the consequences.


86 posted on 10/10/2019 7:49:05 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I found that out as I read it, too.

It appeared to be another newspaper publishing it in parallel.

But it is a site that appears to change it up to avoid copyright issues.


87 posted on 10/10/2019 7:50:17 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: duckman

It pretty much is.
The width of necessary fire breaks is determined by wind velocity.

Not all of the fire spreading is in wooded areas, some of it is in tightly packed developments of Mcmansions.


88 posted on 10/10/2019 7:50:56 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I heard SoCal is facing the same thing soon.


89 posted on 10/10/2019 7:51:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: hsmomx3

These particular types of fires have been started from power lines that go down in strong winds, and because the area is full of dried out underbrush, it catches fire quickly and spreads unbelievably fast.

In essence, they are started by humans, because here it is from mismanagement and too many regulations. Completely avoidable.


90 posted on 10/10/2019 7:51:55 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: goodnesswins

I’m not sorry for the California idiots! Let them enjoy the paradise they created. Suffer you idiots, suffer. You deserve every miserable condition that you are subjected to.


91 posted on 10/10/2019 7:52:21 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: gr8eman

Q: What did people in California use to light their homes before they had candles?

A: Electricity!


92 posted on 10/10/2019 7:52:58 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (If you have a right / To the service I provide / I must be your slave)
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To: TomServo

It is their choice, and people on this site have always hammered them on Forest management. It’s a self inflicted wound and they have chosen to stay.

California has lots of nice desert that never burns though.


93 posted on 10/10/2019 7:53:41 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: ConservativeMind

They do that in every article. I get it now. It’s just really weird.


94 posted on 10/10/2019 7:54:37 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: TomServo

“Let’s try and remember we have FRiends that live in Cali. It’s not funny for them.”

Collateral damage...like me here in illannoy and others in NJ, NY, OR WA, HA etc.


95 posted on 10/10/2019 7:55:19 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: fireman15

If they want new transmission lines, just have all the illegals they relish out there hold hands from the Cal northern border to Bonneville and connect them.

One thing they have an abundance of in Cal is attorneys, have a concern, you can easily find one who will take up your case be it a grievance, environmental concern, criminal, business tort of some kind or whatever. My buddy’s wife was assaulted at work at PGE by a minority. PG and E settled with her...immediate full retirement, full benefits and financial settlement because they would not fire the assaulter due to her minority status. Only loser the company and indirectly the rate payers.


96 posted on 10/10/2019 7:55:20 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: eyeamok

The forests were overgrown when I lived there nearly fourty years ago. And for some reason they keep having the same fires.


97 posted on 10/10/2019 7:55:53 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: sevlex

You know, just mounting the damn things on a pole a few feet from the house would solve the problem....


98 posted on 10/10/2019 7:56:18 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: C19fan

Tesla owners call in sick today.


99 posted on 10/10/2019 7:57:35 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: C19fan

Trump should immediately make a beeline there while the iron is hot!! Lots of potential voters!!!


100 posted on 10/10/2019 7:58:02 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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