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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.

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

“California does things like this, relating to drought, to air quality and now potential fire, to show the power of the state.”

Who made the decision to cut off the power? The electricity utilities or the state government?

California citizens should have been warned far in advance of this and should have been given a thorough explanation of the power grid’s potential to make sparks, and if there’s a problem why wasn’t it addressed years ago?

I still put the blame on the mismanaged, overgrown forests. The problem is not that a forest fire starts, but that it can’t be contained.


81 posted on 10/10/2019 4:52:23 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: cymbeline

Gosh when I was a kid there were wide plowed firebreaks all over the woods in the new england state where I lived.

Today I see no fire breaks.

What happened?


82 posted on 10/10/2019 4:55:03 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: jcon40

the link is blocked


83 posted on 10/10/2019 4:58:13 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: jcon40

Liberalism always turns places into Venezuela.


84 posted on 10/10/2019 5:39:37 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: jazminerose

Okay, I’ll guess...

Because you escaped Kalifornia for a red state.

Maybe....just maybe this event will wake at least a quarter of the mind numbed libs to stop voting for this crap.


85 posted on 10/10/2019 5:40:20 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: abbastanza

Many of them are already in Texas.


86 posted on 10/10/2019 5:44:01 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: jcon40

Brilliant on PG&E’s part. They can’t properly maintain the lines like they need to.

And what happened last night? Massive wildfire in CA. PG&E not available to sue anymore.

CA is pretty backward.


87 posted on 10/10/2019 5:46:03 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Chickensoup

Could be he still lives there. I worked raisin farms when I lived in Fresno as a kid.

People ask me why I won’t leave California. I own a farm in the Foothills towards Tahoe from Sacto and I’ll never leave it either.
Actually has a legal cemetery that’ll have my ashes some day.


88 posted on 10/10/2019 6:20:06 AM PDT by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: HighSierra5
Won't this cost the power company in revenues? If the customers are not using electricity the size of their power bill will be smaller plus the conservative customers are the most reliable customer to pay their bill. Doesn't seem like a good business move.
89 posted on 10/10/2019 6:33:32 AM PDT by Aquamarine (Where we go one, we go all. ~ Q)
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To: jazminerose

OMG!!! You’re clairvoyant.


90 posted on 10/10/2019 6:36:16 AM PDT by libstripper (a bit,)
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To: abbastanza; All

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.
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Also, please don’t move to TN unless you’re a Trump Republican refugee.


91 posted on 10/10/2019 6:41:57 AM PDT by libstripper (a bit,)
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To: jcon40

PG&E power outRAGE begins 2nd night


92 posted on 10/10/2019 6:53:06 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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To: jcon40

Just getting the plebes ready for partime electrical service. Welcome to Agenda 21.


93 posted on 10/10/2019 7:39:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Why not toss in massive gas lines for good measure? Idiots!


94 posted on 10/10/2019 7:46:21 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: olivia3boys

Smart move!

That is what I was wondering about - how many got ready for what PG&E were promising.


95 posted on 10/10/2019 8:13:01 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: libstripper

Well, then, you are WAAAAY ahead of the curve!

Good for you!


96 posted on 10/10/2019 8:13:50 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: metmom; appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
metmom :" ..Wind that isn’t blowing?
Solar panels that get busted?
Hydro power where there is no water?
ELECTRICITY??????? "

Prepper ping - Using Prepping as a Political Movement and Motivator
or
What to expect from the Green New Deal (c/o the AOC Progressive movement

(From the article)" 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."

This is a contrived, man-made defensive tactic by a public utility to protect the company,
it's financial assets, and the public "be damned" attitude; incidentally, expect higher utility rates.
According to Fox Business today, stock in Generac (Electrical Generators) has raised by more than 2% today, alone.
Officially, this contrived 'power outage' directly affects 800,000 homes and businesses,
and will result in substantial income loss to the State coffers as well as customer personal loss (refrigeration).
Imagine on a larger scale gasoline sales, water and sewage pumps, cellphone, computers,
and communication devices rendered inoperative.

Use this incident as a learning experience to benefit the uninformed as to what to expect
from the Progressive Green New Deal advocated by the Democrat Party.
All of a sudden, the reality of having a similar Venezuela cascading financial effect here in this country isn't all that far away, and demonstrates the extent to how much we depend on reliable electricity.

97 posted on 10/10/2019 9:00:20 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
THE MONEY QUOTE:


"All of a sudden, the reality of having a similar Venezuela cascading financial effect here in this country isn't all that far away"

98 posted on 10/10/2019 9:11:55 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
I copied and pasted this reply, citing you as author, of course, to my FB page, primarily for the money quote:


"All of a sudden, the reality of having a similar Venezuela cascading financial effect here in this country isn't all that far away, and demonstrates the extent to how much we depend on reliable electricity."


No one has been able to say that until today !

99 posted on 10/10/2019 9:28:41 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: Flash Bazbeaux; Taxman
"Rolene" was the big hit I remember Moon Martin by.

Moon also wrote the big hit for Robert Palmer - "Bad Case Of Loving You".

100 posted on 10/10/2019 10:01:31 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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