Posted on 10/10/2019 11:40:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
This is an urgent message from the County of Santa Clara Office of Emergency Management. The time is 11:27 p.m. (PST, Wednesday October 8, 2019). Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has begun the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS), for areas of Santa Clara County. Your location could be affected and lose power for up to seven days
PG&E is providing a Customer Resource Center that will have charging stations for phones and plug-in medical devices, drinking water, air conditioning, and other amenities. This will be offered at the Avaya Stadium, at 1123 Coleman Avenue, San Jose 95110 from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. every day for the duration of the event. The City of San Jose will also have three resource centers open. Please check their website for more information.
(Excerpt) Read more at sccgov.org ...
This is the government directly and dramatically affecting people’s day to day lives. I honestly thought this had to be satire.
Could Trump win California?
The fix for the problem is replacing all the old lines & equipment which will take years & years.
Bay Area outage map. Check your address for possible outage. https://projects.sfchronicle.com/trackers/power-outages/
You’re putting words in my mouth. Is that you, Schiff?
Some industries are natural monopolies and the tens of billions of dollars to deregulate them and make them competitive has royally failed. Telecom deregulation, airline deregulation, trucking deregulation, natural gas deregulation all succeeded wildly. But deregulation in the power industry is a complete and total failure.
“where have you been....”
Thankfully, I don’t live in Calif.
Best post of the day.
Not a conservative in power for 500 miles ....
Anyone with a family member requiring 24/7 power for medical equipment like an oxygen concentrator that has not made plans and have equipment in place for outages are fools. If my wife is off oxygen more than a few minutes her oxygen levels drop into the 70% range. I installed a generator with a weeks fuel supply when she started using the equipment.
You have to be prepared for even small outages as lightning strikes and cars knocking down power poles are something that cannot be planned for and usually occur at inopportune moments. Saying "I guess I should have bought a generator" during an event with a persons life at stake is criminal procrastination in my book.
“The govt will of course have plenty of power, and plenty of POWER.”
I suspect higher income gated communities will as well.
What are they doing about people who need electricity for machines that they require for medical conditions?
” But deregulation in the power industry is a complete and total failure.”
Most of the power industry is NOT deregulated including PG&E.
Where are those failures?
Yikes.
They already shut off the power in Simi Valley/Moorpark area..my Trump hating cousin lost power, he can go thank the dumb ass Governor he voted for for this
Too bad about the contents in your freezer and fridge. You wanted to see El Camino? Too bad. Toss that garage door opener. Californians must sacrifice for the greater good. Need power to stay alive and healthy? CPAP? Tough beans. Wait! They will be tough, ‘cause gas is not approved in the green state, and you can’t cook ‘em. Good thing you have batteries, candles, flashlights, oil lamps, and a bbq with lots of charcoal and lighter fluid! Didn’t charge your cell phone or your Kindle? Will the water and gas pumps still work without electricity? Welcome to the dark ages! I haven’t lived in CA for many decades. Won’t go back. This might be fun for the rest of us to watch!
San Francisco is not affected I hear.
Lets hope the psychos, arsonist/terrorist don’t take advantage and start lighting hundreds of fires while the citizens sit in the dark with no power and possibly no communications.
It was a nice place when we left it in 1974.
Wonder how all the tech companies in SCC are dealing with this?
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