Posted on 10/13/2019 6:59:58 AM PDT by janetjanet998
AN FRANCISCO — It was a problem that California had come to dread. Weather models were signaling extreme winds and dry conditions from one end of the state to the other. The risk of wildfires was high.
Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant utility whose power lines and transformers have been blamed for a series of disastrous wildfires in recent years, was determined to prevent another one. Just before last weekend, the company informed state officials that it might shut off power to a large area of Northern California, potentially leaving millions of people in the dark — something no United States utility had done in recent memory. It made that news public on Monday.
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They also forced lumber mills out of the State, therein lies the root of the problem. In the 80s sexual orientation training became more important than forestry management to the State legislators.
Now cities burn.
But the poor gentleman who died 9 minutes in because they shut his oxygen off, can practice nothing.
There has to be more to this story then what has been presented so far.
I don’t know anything that would kill someone in 9 minutes with out supplemental oxygen.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3605848
The above was a study on removing oxygen from long term oxygen use. There were physical changes but no one died.
Nonetheless, this death should not have happened, and would not if the power had not been shut off.
Someone above noted a good deal of the problem, they outsourced their power generation. The fires in NorCal occur due to the transmission lines. Now, those lines do not begin in Cal, they begin in the hydro generation north of the border. If they had generation plants, like NG, nuclear and the like close to where the power is needed, like where people live close together, there would be little need for interstate transmission. But, those plants are not green, not “safe” and not cheap so just like with increasing the amount of impounded water, they don’t want it.
PG&E had announced the shut-offs were going to happen at night.
Not sure if I am remembering correctly.
cannot say about the early 70s but I do know they cut off power here to our island as recently as 1999 during Floyd. So, yes it does happen and we deal with it.
Totally agree.
Up here in Humboldt they gave us three hours. not 72 hours. Their response for weeks was Humboldt county would not be affected. There was a mad scramble( not me, this has happened before) people were calling the apocalypse.
What did people think would happen when they sued the electric company into Bankruptcy?? they would just gladly open themselves up to more liability from the very same people??
DISCONNECT AND ABANDON ALL TRANSMISSION LINES that go through mismanaged densely forested areas, Tell those Counties, you want Power YOU BUY THE LINES!!! and the Liability,Maintenance,...and you can charge for the transmission of power too.
Tesla owners are fit as fiddles.
Let them walk. /s
Simply stated, there are entirely too many dumb people in this world and way to many of them are in positions that can affect all of us.
JoMa
Just getting ‘em ready for the big SHTF event that’s planned for this time next year.
One or two days, and they go crazy. In the northern Idaho, power outages are a way of life. Snow and ice take out lines and equipment every year. We fire up the generator fo 2 hours on, six hours off, until power is restored. Everyone knows it and accepts it. BTW, even a small 2500 watt generator will keep the fridge running and a light on. They can be purchased for under 400$.
Bet he was not the only one, we are just not going to or have not heard about the others. The number of folks with in home health care dependent on electricity is very significant.
Rural areas (red) were shutdown because those are areas that tend to be adjacent to woodlands. But plenty liberal areas got shut down too. Particularly the Bay Area.
I think the whole exercise was to intimidate California residents—bet the follow up with massive rate increases.
What they more directly accomplished was murder in nine minutes. That should cost them a few dollars. Maybe a few executives should get fired and go to jail?
Just some of the (at home) life support equipment in use today:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Kidney dialysis machine
Apnea monitor for infants (24 months and under)
Oxygen concentrator
Ventilator
Pressure breathing therapy
Infusion feeding pump
Peritoneal dialysis machine
Respirator
These power outages must be a trial balloon by the democrat’s to reduce the costs of their proposed health care plan.
It's a death panel by other means. Some would see these problems as opportunities to clear out some of the undesirables. Same with the power outages in general. If the only way you can live a normal life in certain areas of the state is to be sufficiently wealthy to have backup generators and battery banks, only people who can afford to have those things will want to live in those areas.
Was specifically speaking about Commiefornia. Other states have different rules/regs as you observed. Friends who are still stuck there lament about the Solar rules that preclude them from storing energy (batteries) and excess that goes to the grid but is not compensated.
Screw PG&E. Firing competent American Engineers and replacing them the low-quality, low-skilled Indian H1Bs.
Commifornia deserves the turd-world mess it’s in now as it’s companies and the state imported millions of turd-worlders. Yes, Indians and Communist Chinese shit wherever they want in their home countries.
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