Posted on 10/11/2019 2:35:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The power is out in Northern California. More than 1 million Californians are now without electricity, one of modern life’s essentials that is frequently taken for granted. The blackout was done on purpose—to prevent sparks from powerlines that could ignite deadly wildfires.
Before planned blackouts are through in two or three days, as many as 3 million Californians may go without power. On the surface, the blackout and its causes are simple to understand. But the deeper causes are complicated, span decades of public policy, and dozens of overlapping unintended—and intended—consequences of decisions, both related and unrelated.
The wind in Northern California is blowing in from dry Nevada, as it often does this time of year. It’s called the “Diablo wind.” In Southern California, the comparable current blowing in from the Mojave Desert is known as the “Santa Ana winds.”
In both cases, as the wind rises above California’s mountain spine, then descends, it compresses and heats up. Forests, chaparral and brush, dry this time of year in California’s Mediterranean climate, are primed for wildfires.
This Isn’t Climate Change
Michael Wara, Stanford University’s director of climate and energy policy, warns, “We are having to adapt to new circumstances brought about by climate change.” He estimates that this week’s blackout could cost the state as much as $2.6 billion in lost economic activity.
Politicians, journalists, and some scientists repeat a common refrain: California is getting hotter and drier because of climate change. They ignore the fact that annual precipitation totals over the past 100 years show no statistically meaningful trend.
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Yep, Agenda 21 plan straight up. Get people out of rural areas and packed into dense cities, while giving rural areas back to nature and wildlife. It makes it much easier to control the people, plus they know rural people are conservative and independent, while city people are liberal to the point of socialist, and often dependent on government.
It is all part of the plan folks, spelled out very well in this article.
Excellent post. Thanks,
So this year they said screw you California, we are shutting the grid down in high wind so we don't get sued again for your government screw up!!!!
Notice the state did not force them to keep the lights on? Screwed up third world hell hole is now the norm in California.
That is exactly right
Only recently does the world know & care about CA fires so much. We’ve gone from virtually no news, to some news, to saturation dopamine-hit news.
Precisely, as you don’t see Southern California Edison that controls all of southern California shouting down power because of Santa Ana winds. You don’t see SMUD in soothsay shouting down power. Just PG&E and the WAPA which runs all of the hydro power with their own lines from the Feds not shutting down their grid in the same area! Just PG&E. Now look at the fire today in San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles on fire from the wind. Nobody shutting down power there!!!!!
We live in Butte County...luckily away from the Dam, although it is literally right up the road from us..But if it goes, it will spill toward town, not us. That aside. This morning I checked the outage page since we have had our power out since Tuesday...it said that it was expected to return on Sunday night...yikes!
It came back on today at noon. Workers were working on some lines across the road from out property... and other crews were along the roadway. No doubt something mucked up the lines, or there was some other some such problem. Anyway. The fridge is back on and so is the television and wife is happy. Oh and that means the well pump is back to working too! No more having to fill the toilet to flush....
I be seeing her on Tuesday after the fair here in Fresno...
They did have them.
I lived in Cali in 1980 and 1981.
"A Tesla charging station for electric vehicles is taped off along Devlin Road during the PG&E power shut-off in Napa!"
Big forest fires.
Apparently it was the Spotted Owl’s fault. We had to do something.
But what to do. What to do?
How about cutting way back on both the lumber business and the clearing the underbrush in our forests. That will fix it. We will save the Spotted owl.
I wonder how the Spotted Owl did in the huge Northern California fire earlier this year.
Precisely, as you don’t see Southern California Edison that controls all of southern California shutting down power because of Santa Ana winds. You don’t see SMUD in Southbay shouting down power. Just PG&E, but WAPA which runs all of the hydro power with their own lines from the Feds, they are not shutting down their grid in the same area! Just PG&E. Now look at the fire today in San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles on fire from the wind. Nobody shutting down power there!!!!!
I was thinking the same thing: how are the sanctimonious electric vehicle owners going to charge their cars?
Fossil fuels forever LOL!
I have livd here 60 years. The 1980’s were nothing like last year the worst in recorded history for the amount of acres burned. This was predicted to happen. My brother-n-law is a fire chief and his son works for Cal Fire. Last year ws unprecedented and scary.
Well, at least Californians won’t be shocked by the current news...
..Unless they have generators
The fires will be easier to spot after all the lights go out?
It is, as water vapor. And it has much greater impact in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide. But man has no say in it unlike CO2 which we do have some control over. However, the issue is confused by those that try to eliminate man-generated CO2 whose impact has a minimal impact on a gas which already has a minimal impact on climate. In fact, study of past temperature and CO2 levels, mainly from ice cores, show natural increases in CO2 levels lag climate heating by about 700 years.
There has been electrical power in CA for 100 years , and most of the early years the lines were way cruder and less safe, the lines survived many seasons of droughts and wind storms but now all of a sudden its a safety hazard ? BS
From what I understand...the Transmission tower that held the lines that caused the Camp Fire were 100 years old....so maybe it is the original equipment
In mid-July to August 2018, a series of large wildfires erupted across California, mostly in the northern part of the state, including the destructive Carr Fire and the Mendocino Complex Fire. On August 4, 2018, a national disaster was declared in Northern California, due to the extensive wildfires burning there.[19]
In November 2018, strong winds aggravated conditions in another round of large, destructive fires that occurred across the state. This new batch of wildfires included the Woolsey Fire and the Camp Fire, which killed at least 85 people with 2 still unaccounted for as of 17 February 2019.[20] It destroyed more than 18,000 structures, becoming both California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire on record.
The Firestone fire caused more than $3.5 billion (2018 USD) in damages, including $1.792 billion in fire suppression costs.[4][5][6][7] The Mendocino Complex Fire burned more than 459,000 acres (186,000 ha), becoming the largest complex fire in the state's history, with the complex's Ranch Fire surpassing the Thomas Fire and the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889 to become California's single-largest recorded wildfire.[21][22]
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