Yikes! I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. I tried the CPAP and hated it and, like your SIL, refuse to use it. All I could think of was this...
Posted on 10/10/2019 11:40:20 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
I hope so but many of the people in rural-ish northern CA are Republican anyway. But it will certainly improve the turnout rate! Now if southern Cal utilities do this in the next few days what you say could happen.
Yikes! I've been diagnosed with sleep apnea. I tried the CPAP and hated it and, like your SIL, refuse to use it. All I could think of was this...
” So they can’t keep their transmission system running and they also built under-sized servers that can’t keep up with demand. Figures.”
When did the SF Chronicle take over the transmission system?
Thanks. So for someone starting new would you recommend the Honda as first choice?
I haven’t been to Europe recently but don’t think the high-voltage lines are ever buried. You’d need a huge tunnel like CERN!
My own neighborhood in WA State was developed in the late 60s with underground distribution lines but I’m told they led to so many maintenance headaches that they were abandoned and replaced with above ground lines. I’m guessing that wouldn’t happen now with the availability of far superior cable sheathing and junction boxes.
“Why do we have to spend all our $ on homeless drug addicts and illegals, when we could have made safe, underground power lines like other first world countries?”
Maybe it’s easier to hide the theft of taxpayer money this way.
Have to ask Garcetti, I’m pretty sure that he’s an expert on the subject, because he’s not competent on anything else.
The fact that this was released last minute reeks of they didn't give a crap about the people and didn't bother planning at all.
Or, they are up to something else other than what they are saying, (and didn't plan for -didn't care about-un-intended consequences).
In either case- This state is run by idiots and morons, managed by corrupt democrat politicians on the take.
And BTW the recall the governor campaign should pay visits to these places.
Yeah. You’d have to move there if you used a CPAP every night.
“There has been talk about this since the weather forecast of dry winds came out.”
Well, “talk about it” and finding out if & when it’s actually going to hit your neighborhood, are 2 very different things.
Chronicle links to the PG&E system. The outage map is managed by PG&E.
“Chronicle links to the PG&E system. The outage map is managed by PG&E.”
You never leave the Chronicle site.
“Not the problem nor the fix.”
“What PG&E is doing is blacking out the kind of low-voltage wires that deliver power to homes,” “The types of power lines traditionally seen dangling overhead in residential areas and neighborhoods are considered more of a wildfire risk because of their proximity to the ground and increased likelihood of being surrounded by trees and other forms of vegetation, “
SO the ‘fix’ is to put in underground electrical service, which means “replacing all the old lines & equipment which will take years & years”
“Wonder how all the tech companies in SCC are dealing with this?”
“big commercial customers, like a tech headquarters ... tend to be located closer to the bulk transmission system [and] the high-voltage lines, which are much less impacted by this outage.” ““The lines in the South Bay where the tech headquarters are, are [surrounded by] wide open space — there’s basically no vegetation. “
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Honda’s and Honda clone engines are a little quieter, tend to be a little more fuel efficient and are a bit easier to start. But they are slightly more complex than my old Briggs so I don’t know if one would last as long in extreme circumstances like what we have subjected our generator to.
I suppose that you are already aware that if you get a standard non-inverter generator, the smallest size that will handle your needs will be the most fuel efficient. We needed a 5000 watt generator to handle the starting loads of our furnace blower, fridges, freezer and air compressor, because I have also used it on worksites. A bigger one would use more fuel at partial loads which is what you have most of the time.
Solar is not the answer. So that California can reuse all the power put into the grid from solar the requirement is that you be hooked up to the grid. Guess what? When the grid goes down you lose power....eve if you have solar.
How right you are. To think that this complete schmuck thought he could run for President.
You are right! I guess I didn’t click on the Chronicle link and mistook the provided link for the official PG&E site. Interestingly, the Chronicle site provided my address info instantly.
It looks like the Chronicle site is somehow mirroring the PG&E site...or maybe the map is being hosted on Google by PG&E and others are put it up as theirs.
The outages are being planned to cut power to transmission lines that are subject to sparking in high winds. Major transmission lines run up the spine of the peninsula, roughly the Northeast edge of the biggest blue splotch over the peninsula.
Can’t say I blame you. When I was younger it was great. Then it became something we didn’t even recognize.
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