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PG&E power outage begins 2nd night
Sacramento Bee ^ | Tony Bizjak

Posted on 10/09/2019 7:31:30 PM PDT by jcon40

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. shut down power to 500,000 homes and business – an estimated 2-million-plus Northern California residents – creating the largest blackout in state history. The move, designed as a massive defensive tactic to avoid wildfires amid high winds, created confusion, consternation and angry responses from both the public and public officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: and; califblackouts; california; outage; pgande; political; power; prepper; preppers; shtf; wildfires
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To: pepsionice

For a 137 years they have pushed society into becoming completely dependent on and addicted to electricity. Now they are putting them back into the stone age. This is honestly the craziest most irrational thing I have seen in my life. I think they are trying to knock off all the ill, weak, and ignorant to reduce population. If this causes any deaths they need the crap sued out of them for each one.


61 posted on 10/09/2019 8:59:49 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: jcon40
PG&E power outage begins 2nd night

What a bunch of YESTERYEAR idiots!

62 posted on 10/09/2019 9:04:37 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: SamAdams76

Mink DeVille did a cover version of his “Cadillac Walk”, but you’re probably referring to Hot Night in Dallas, with the sheet sticking to your skin.

Hadn’t thought about him in a long time.


63 posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:01 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: HighSierra5
Coincidence?

Not in the slightest way.

This is opportunistic and malicious intent.

64 posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:17 PM PDT by flamberge (The wheels keep turning)
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To: glasseye

Here in Oakland my kid’s about to have his second no school day in a row. I asked him if there was any wind here today - I was across the bay. He said “No.” Not a leaf rustling here now.


65 posted on 10/09/2019 9:08:50 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: lecram

Even the Indians knew to burn before too much fuel accumulated. The Sierra Club then brought their wisdom to F things up.


66 posted on 10/09/2019 9:17:43 PM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. I have been a DOithS / PC guy forever and alway)
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To: jcon40

They shut the power off in Morgan Hill tonight (just south of San Jose) and imposed a 7PM curfew.....words fail......


67 posted on 10/09/2019 9:20:53 PM PDT by TMD (Behind Enemy Lines (SF bay area)....)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Smart move by the utility

And I’m their competition- a solar contractor

Whether or not they caused the Santa Rosa fire in the Napa fire in 2017 or the paradise fire last year they took 100% of the blame and got sued and had to settle

I don’t honestly think that their transformers caused the fires but that doesn’t matter here in liberal La La Land so they’re doing what they need to do to prevent any blame for any fires and it’s a smart move on their part


68 posted on 10/09/2019 10:17:47 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: jcon40

What happens if the wildfires are started by arsonist/terrorist? And they have all the citizens in the dark without power and possibly without communications?


69 posted on 10/09/2019 10:40:01 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: jcon40; Tilted Irish Kilt

The middle of a rolling power blackout might be a good time to inform your fellow co-workers and relatives who are pro-dem/socialist what the New Green Deal is going to REALLY look like should it be implemented.

The new green deal depends on electricity and if you don’t have that.......

AND those generators are going to be pretty useless if they have no fossil fuels to run off of.

What else are they going to use?

Wind that isn’t blowing?

Solar panels that get busted?

Hydro power where there is no water?

ELECTRICITY???????


70 posted on 10/09/2019 10:55:43 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: jcon40

11PM and NO wind in the Bay Area.
I had my nephew break out the Y2K generator I bought 20 years ago to make sure my parents were taken care of.
Darn thing started right up...*snicker
California is now the stupid state...


71 posted on 10/09/2019 10:56:45 PM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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To: DAC21
Yes, I feel sorry for our patriotic conservative brothers and sisters in California. They bear a heavy burden, and it was boneheaded of me to paint all of California with a broad brush. Our brothers and sisters there are caught behind enemy lines. God bless them all.
 
72 posted on 10/09/2019 11:10:47 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Everything I Needed to Know About Islam I Learned on 9/11)
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To: jcon40

Last speech I heard, he still lives in CA inland on a rasien farm


73 posted on 10/10/2019 2:57:38 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: jcon40

People actually ask me why I left California.


74 posted on 10/10/2019 4:16:12 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Secret Agent Man

California brush fires are caused by environmentalists.

They won’t allow proper management of the forestry so they turn a good chunk of the state into a giant tinder box.

Guess who ultimately picks up the tap for the massive fire suppression costs? That pink foam ain’t cheap.


75 posted on 10/10/2019 4:18:31 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jcon40

At least they can’t shoot each other. They have no ammo.

That’s why there’s no gun crime in California.


76 posted on 10/10/2019 4:19:52 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Jane Long

Budget is far less pricey than U Haul.

Guess how I know.


77 posted on 10/10/2019 4:21:15 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: libstripper

You must live in my neighborhood. LCUB?


78 posted on 10/10/2019 4:22:10 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: Gritty

Yup. Not as long as counties in LA have 112% turnout.

But . . . I am totally confident that this election will be watched like no other. And not by sclerotic government drones. I believe that the Trump administration is plenty smart enough to engage the private sector in election monitoring on every level, not just poll watching.

There will be plenty of poll watchers, too. You just won’t have any idea who they are.


79 posted on 10/10/2019 4:26:56 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: jazminerose

Good for California. PG&E outsmarted them on this one. California in the dark is priceless. Just watch where you step! Needles, human feces and the like. And please, don’t move to Texas. We don’t want you.


80 posted on 10/10/2019 4:32:46 AM PDT by abbastanza
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