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I saw a headline a few hours ago saying that 22 counties in California are expected to have a 2 day blackout.

Yeah, we really need that nation wide Kamala.

My favorite scene in “Atlas Shrugged” is the last one in the movie, the penultimate in the book..., as Dagny, Fransisco, Ragnar and Hank are flying out after rescuing John Galt from the State Torture Facility.... and the city goes dark section by section, then the nation.... As the ultimate and inevitable result of the government’s policies.

Kamala, AOC etc. are hellbent to recreate that same scene in real life. I don’t include Biden in that because he is too far gone mentally to be hellbent on anything but being hellbent.

I live in a “third world country: Philippines”. Today we had a brownout three times. The longest was 1 1/2 hrs. I have had brownouts last as long as three days, (sub station’s generator broke and spare parts had to be sent from Manila for repairs).

Maintenance is not regularly done on the equipment. Along with that, many of the power poles, (old wood style), are placed in the middle of rice fields where they are sitting in water for months at a time. Of course the water rot and termites take a toll on them. Fortunately those poles are slowly being moved out of the rice fields and closer to the roads and are being replaced with concrete or metal poles.

You learn to be prepared for the brownouts and stock up on ice to keep your freezer cold and, if you can afford one, you get a generator as a back-up.

I use a generator directly wired into a double throw switch. When I have to use the generator I flip the switch to disconnect from the “grid” and the generator is then supplying electricity to the full house using the existing switches and outlets. No need to run electrical cords all over the house to run lights and appliances.

Folks in California are not expecting to be without power, until now, and are not prepared for it. I bet there is a run on generators about now.

Glad I left almost 20 years ago and will not return.