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‘This Did Not Go Well’: Inside PG&E’s Blackout Control Room
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Posted on 10/13/2019 6:59:58 AM PDT by janetjanet998

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Don't worry they can practice again in about a week (another wind event)
1 posted on 10/13/2019 6:59:58 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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But the poor gentleman who died 9 minutes in because they shut his oxygen off, can practice nothing. ☹️
2 posted on 10/13/2019 7:02:48 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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Racism!!!!

“While people and companies with means could turn to businesses like Ms. Maynes for backup power, many others did not have that luxury. When they tried to get more information, answers were often not forthcoming.”


3 posted on 10/13/2019 7:03:02 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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Fire requires 2 things, spark and fuel. The Government supplied all the fuel with their forest management practices, PG&E just the spark.


4 posted on 10/13/2019 7:05:06 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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But the poor gentleman who died 9 minutes in because they shut his oxygen off, can practice nothing


I don’t know all the details but I thought I saw that the power was shut off at 3am while he was sleeping....I do know that in the LA area they shut power off without warning in some places


5 posted on 10/13/2019 7:05:35 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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This is serving as a wonderful preview for what implementation of the Green New Deal would result in.


6 posted on 10/13/2019 7:07:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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California seems to be experiencing great difficulties.
Will these reach as many as “The 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT?”


7 posted on 10/13/2019 7:08:21 AM PDT by V K Lee ("VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS IS JUDGMENT FOR THE WICKED")
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Things did not go well, according to PG&E spokesman Charlie Foxtrot...


8 posted on 10/13/2019 7:08:42 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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Very sad but did he die from lack of power or was it just his time? If you cannot live 9 minutes without power, perhaps you should have a backup plan; you own generator, be in a facility that has one, seek other shelter when they gave more than 72 hours notice. This guy would be dead if a squirrel shorted out a transformer or a texting mom struck a power pole. To rely utterly on a quasi-government entity like PG&E (they cannot do anything without a government’s board approval) is insanity or certain death.


9 posted on 10/13/2019 7:09:36 AM PDT by rey
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Californians who voted for LIB asshats: Enjoy the suck.


10 posted on 10/13/2019 7:10:27 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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I can’t imagine Californians taking this so well. Try this in Texas and Austin would be nothing but ashes.


11 posted on 10/13/2019 7:11:31 AM PDT by SanchoP
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Don’t see any problem. Doesn’t every CA’ian homeowner have solar panels on the roof, and monster batteries in the basement, with backup windmill in the backyard?

If it’s windy enough to shut the power, the windmills will supply everything.

And, if everything goes caput, at least they can drive their coal-powered electric cars to a shelter...


12 posted on 10/13/2019 7:11:54 AM PDT by C210N (If you dislike productive billionaires, be 1,000 times more suspect of one confiscatory trillionaire)
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Calizuela.


13 posted on 10/13/2019 7:12:07 AM PDT by SIDENET
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It would only cost a trillion dollars or so to bring social justice to this utility.

They would need to identify all customers by race.

Then they could have a second set of utility lines built for all blacks and hispanics.

Then those lines could keep operating during power outages!

(I hereby accept the nomination as Chairman of the Board of the new Social Justice Utility of The People!)


14 posted on 10/13/2019 7:12:10 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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The fella who died was someone else’s grandfather. No one gets outraged. Just a few family members. Do the asshats care? They’ll find a way to move on.


15 posted on 10/13/2019 7:14:01 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Apologize for going off topic, but this now-standard excrement line from NYT and other liberal organs really bothers me. It is such a lie.
Residents were left asking why so many people had to lose power and whether rolling blackouts would become routine as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense.

16 posted on 10/13/2019 7:16:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Californians who voted for LIB asshats: Enjoy the suck.

PG&E preferentially shut off the power in conservative areas, liberal enclaves were largely spared.

17 posted on 10/13/2019 7:17:53 AM PDT by null and void (Convicted spies are shot, traitors are hanged, saboteurs are subject to summary execution...)
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Residents were left asking why so many people had to lose power and whether rolling blackouts would become routine as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense.

Is Climate Change in the NYT’s style manual or what? They never miss a chance to put it in a article.

18 posted on 10/13/2019 7:18:22 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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Not allowed to have batteries. You have to put excess on the grid and guess what, they don’t compensate you for it.


19 posted on 10/13/2019 7:19:01 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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Keep your fuel tanks full.


20 posted on 10/13/2019 7:19:25 AM PDT by ptsal
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