Posted on 10/07/2019 5:52:34 PM PDT by Crazieman
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Monday that it might preemptively cut power this week to much of Northern California — including almost all of the Bay Area — to prevent power lines from sparking wildfires during dry and windy weather.
The shut-off watch, covering 29 of the state’s 58 counties, is unprecedented in scope and could grow as forecasts come into focus. Customers in parts of the counties could lose power as soon as Wednesday morning, and the watch extends through Thursday.
Seven of the nine Bay Area counties — all but San Francisco and Marin — were advised of the potential outage, along with the North Coast, the northern parts of the Central Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. The company cited a “potentially widespread, strong and dry wind event.”
A shut-off watch precedes a warning of an actual planned outage.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
And they made sure you knew about it. I got a call on my landline, a call on my cell phone, a text on my cell phone, and a message on my mail email line.
Good thing they sent out this information before they possibly, maybe, could or could not do anything about it. Can’t wait for the surcharge on my bill to cover all of the messaging, phoning, etc.
I gotta go talk to some lids on qrz....get back to your important question latter. Do you have money riding on the answer?
Wait minute, before ya run off, you said you lived, “Behind enemy lines”. Is that not true? Is that just a joke phrase you use?
And before ya answer, people can go to prison and get their lives ruined in your state, for things that are perfectly legal in their state.
So what is it?
Go! Later...
“It had more to do with poor maintenence of power lines in rural areas.”
other states don’t have that problem ... how come California does?
re: “PG&E’s power shut-off watch for Northern California”
This is done to INCREASE the risk of fire from home generators, of which there were a few this last time power was “cut”.
re: “other states don’t have that problem ... how come California does?”
Nothing to do with the Cali climate, or a lot of dead, dried-out timber near power line right-of-ways.
No sir, nothing to do with either of those two factors ...
I will just let you chew on that for the next several hours...My microphone is ready to go and so am I...
re: “I gotta go talk to some lids on qrz”
QRZ lids - “the worst”.
Good luck. Be sure and wear flame-retardant material.
re: “My microphone is ready to go and so am I..”
80 has gone long here ... listening to 160 (1900 kHz) at the moment ...
Forests, and trees are not unique to California. In fact we have them here in New Hampshire too, and from what I have heard there are some in Maine, Vermont, New York, and even in Pennsylvania.
It does take a lot of work to keep the trees away from the power lines. We do that here so when trees fall due to ice storms they don't take out the power lines.
So don't despair, it really is possible to keep power line rights of way cleared, it just requires that power companies spend the money to do the work, and governments allow them to do so.
In the eastern part of the country we know we can keep the trees trimmed since the people before us were able to clear cut the entire area without using power tools. Now that we have chain saws, bucket trucks, skidders, chippers, and bush hogs it is much easier.
Thanks for the warning _Jim...will do...but I left QRZ, I am actually at a microphone recording material for tomorrow...
Sittin in my RV and my allstar node has too much packet loss to connect to the Winsystem...no HF while here. Can’t connect to the repeater at Meadow Lakes because it is down for whatever reason. So...just listening to the Crazy World of Arthur Brown...
European or African Swallow?
Sucks that you are stuck there but at least you have that nice clean smoke-free air to breath before the next big one. I have five acres here in Virginia and sometimes breathe the smoke from the neighbor's fires (my woodstove also creates smoke for everyone). But the state of VIrginia will even pay our subdivision to clear out growth, burning it if that's the best method.
For HF, I use this resource to gauge ionospheric performance:
https://region6armymars.org/resources/solarweather.php
Basically, the ‘graph’ of reflectivity of height vs frequency ‘pulls back’ at night and moves back out during the day ...
You’re going to let me “chew on” my question which was directed to you? You’re not very slick are ya?
No..now go chew...
What ever. Living in the craphole called Kalifornia is no longer living in paradise. We survive but dream of the day we can leave!
This was a guy I was listening to at the time and is a great citizen reporter that gave a pretty good explanation after the Camp fire last year... of their specific happenings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5jaFNPPXMw
I did not re-listen to this whole thing again, but it seems like he was talking about a manual switch that went out or maybe a breaker that was up on the line, I can’t remember exactly.
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