Posted on 10/26/2019 4:21:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
All Thursday, they hadn’t gotten a reverse-911 alert, or an emergency email, or a phone call. All had seemed quiet since 11 a.m., when Southern California Edison shut off their power.
It wasn’t until 2:30 a.m. Friday that something — maybe the whir of helicopters or perhaps the providence of God — woke Mary up. She saw the unusual light creeping through the bedroom curtains. “That’s not right,” she thought, grabbing a flashlight.
Outside, a sheriff’s deputy cruising by noticed the flashlight in the window and flicked on his siren, then shouted into the home: “It’s a mandatory evacuation!” The deputy wondered why the occupants hadn’t gotten an alert. She told him that entire section of the Stonecrest community didn’t have a clue. They were all still in their homes. “
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Cause nobody thought to own a battery powered radio...
I imagine most everybody is able to scramble around in the dark using flashlights which gathering up family photo albums, important documents, pets, and children. And to drive out of the area down unilluminated streets and through intersections where there are no traffic signals.
But only the jerkwads in California government would actually oblige their citizenry to do so.
The government of Cartelfornia is trying to kill its own citizens.
That’s part of it,,
“Cause nobody thought to own a battery powered radio...”
I’m sure they have cell phones. All they need is power to charge them...
I need the loan
of a couch,,,,
In Arizona !
During the Campfire last November, all communications failed within two hours of the fire. The evacuation plan was practiced and had zones for orderly evacuation. The fire spread so quickly that those plans were thrown out the window and into the firestorms that were swirling around.
That being said. There was a fellow ham, by the name of Alan from Placerville that was in Paradise right after the fire doing his day job helping to set up comms for fire crews. He discovered the notification systems failed, etc, not because of a failure to notify folks, but the fire moved so quickly that lines were destroyed before all notifications could be given. Alan began giving presentations to local groups. I invited him to speak to our local ham club in March and he spoke again in July. It what at that meeting that everything jelled as others were concerned about getting information when power was out. Our first power cut off was in June...This is our fifth.
Here in Butte County, where Paradise is located, now experiences the first of the power cutoffs and usually the last to be restored. I have said this elsewhere and will repeat myself for those that may have never read one of my posts...Our local neighborhood area has set up a GMRS notification system to alert nieghbors during these times of power shut offs. It works. We have a net every Tuesday where people check in.. The goal is to ensure that Grandma Moses gets evacuated. 85 people died in Paradise. Mostly elderly. Many in their homes or front lawn, waiting for help. Some did die in their cars. This is why we set up a GMRS system. It has its drawbacks, but for the general population it will work.
Currently my wife and I are awaiting our power to go off. Its is beautiful fall day in the low 80s...nary a breeze. But usually, if it gets breezy here, then it is really blowing somewhere else.
The people in the story need to keep themselves of situations constantly. One can not go blithly through life staring at their iphone. They need to look up and see the smoke...Citizens have to have some sort of responsibility for their own safety. Officialdom can only do so much and sometimes things fall through the cracks...
I understand your point somewhat, but even if you had one, you’d have to have had the prescience to be listening to it at the right time assuming (and this is huge) that the California government even issued the warning for broadcast on the radio. So don’t be too hard on your fellow Californian.
Standard operating procedure by single-party tyrannical centralized socialist governments such as California’s.
Environmentalists are evil.
Thanks for the info and helping the community.
California.
When you absolutely, positively do not give a sh*t that your political leaders are so dumb that six sigma to the left of 100 on the Bell curve is so far to their right that they need binoculars to see it.
CA citizens, revolt while you can.
Yep.
Clear them out/kill them to make room for the illegals.
I don’t have one. I should. thanks for reminding.
I only played a very small part. There were others that did all the heavy lifting. I will admit that since Janaury, I had many email converstations with Alan over the months. During the months of system set up, we were out of state plying our trade, but I kept in contact and followed the progress.
A hat was passed around and funding for a repeater was obtained. Local hams helped people through the FCC process online and some 40 to 50 people got their GMRS license. I was very impressed. I thought the rate would be closer to two to five percent. In fact a little while ago I stepped outside to see if anyone was monitoring and got a call back. Very good! I am impressed at our local citizens here in our area.
While Butte County is traditionally conservative, I do not know the political leanings of all the folks that signed up for their license, because it does not matter. You know what I mean? In the old America it was like that. Everyone may have different political beliefs but all came together when the times called for it.
All in all, for local communities and neighborhoods, a Radio Watch program is easy to set up with FRS/GMRS and with a repeater or not, depending upon the area....
73
They make those portable cell chargers. I’ve had one for years, I can charge my phone about 6 times before I have to recharge it. Everyone in CA should get one, they are cheap.
Your car has a radio and power plug for the cellphone.
That’s one way to rewild.
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