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Urgent Message from the County of Santa Clara Office of Emergency Management
County of Santa Clara ^ | October 9, 2019 | Anon

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: califblackouts; califwildfires; fouledup; government; wildfires
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To: cuban leaf

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.


81 posted on 10/10/2019 12:52:32 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: redcatcherb412
My sister in law died in her sleep not because her cpap failed, but she refused to use it and her oxygen levels fell to a point finally one night that it killed her.

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...


82 posted on 10/10/2019 12:55:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

” 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?


83 posted on 10/10/2019 12:56:52 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: fireman15

Thanks. So for someone starting new would you recommend the Honda as first choice?


84 posted on 10/10/2019 1:00:59 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Yaelle

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.


85 posted on 10/10/2019 1:03:12 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Yaelle

“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.


86 posted on 10/10/2019 1:10:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
This notice went out at 11:27 freakin p.m. last night? How many people even saw it? And the power went off starting at 8 a.m. this morning? So now not many can see this information.

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.

87 posted on 10/10/2019 1:17:24 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yeah. You’d have to move there if you used a CPAP every night.


88 posted on 10/10/2019 1:17:38 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: steve86

“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.


89 posted on 10/10/2019 1:20:26 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: TexasGator

Chronicle links to the PG&E system. The outage map is managed by PG&E.


90 posted on 10/10/2019 1:20:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Chronicle links to the PG&E system. The outage map is managed by PG&E.”

You never leave the Chronicle site.


91 posted on 10/10/2019 1:26:40 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: steve86

“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”


92 posted on 10/10/2019 1:28:32 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: Renkluaf

“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. “


93 posted on 10/10/2019 1:32:03 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

bookmark


94 posted on 10/10/2019 1:38:36 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: Pelham

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.


95 posted on 10/10/2019 1:39:18 PM PDT by fireman15
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To: RayChuang88

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.


96 posted on 10/10/2019 1:46:19 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Pelham

How right you are. To think that this complete schmuck thought he could run for President.


97 posted on 10/10/2019 1:51:10 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TexasGator

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.


98 posted on 10/10/2019 1:52:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: nuconvert; Renkluaf
On the outage map below, the companies are located in the white area around the bay. They are not up in the hills, on high ridges, in forests, or over at the coast and are therefore shielded from the outages (or so it appears). A lot of the residential areas are not in the outage zones, either. We are right at the edge of an outage zone, so keeping our fingers crossed.

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.


99 posted on 10/10/2019 2:00:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ocrp1982

Can’t say I blame you. When I was younger it was great. Then it became something we didn’t even recognize.


100 posted on 10/10/2019 2:06:13 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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