Posted on 10/24/2020 8:39:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Pacific Gas & Electric may cut power to over 1 million people on Sunday to prevent the chance of sparking wildfires as extreme fire weather returns to the region, the utility announced Friday.
The nation’s largest utility said it could black out customers in 38 counties — including most of the San Francisco Bay Area — as weather forecasts called for a return of bone-dry, gusty weather that carries the threat of downing or fouling power lines or other equipment that in recent years have been blamed for igniting massive and deadly blazes in central and Northern California.
The safety shutoffs were expected to begin as early as Sunday morning and last into Tuesday, affecting 466,000 homes and businesses, or more than 1 million residents assuming between two and three people per home or business customer.
Cuts are predicted to encompass parts of the Sacramento Valley, the northern and central Sierra Nevada, upper elevations of the San Francisco Bay Area, the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Central Coast and portions of southern Kern County.
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Woo Hoo! I’m one of them! I’m in the news and not on the police blotter, for once!
Thankfully, my 93-year-old mother in the north state just had her Generac whole-house generator installed last week.
What fuel does it use?
This is the Democrat future.
california’s socalled utility regulatory commission is a classic case in “regulatory capture” and CORRUPTION
and has been for many years, and GLARINGLY SO since Governor Brown’s first term in office.
the current governor (nancy pelosi’s nephew) did not start this gross corruption.
he is to blame for not cleaning it up, true and true, but he did not start it.
Are people accepting these power outages as an inevitable fact of life, or are they getting fed up with it?
“Thankfully, my 93-year-old mother in the north state just had her Generac whole-house generator installed last week.”
Yes, same here. This will be the second time in a week we’ve had a shutoff.
Ours run on propane.
“This is the Democrat future.”
This is one strategy to consolidate people into mega population centers, where they can be more easily controlled. In the next few years we are going to see attacks on independent living coming on many fronts, IMHO.
The slow and steady collapse of California due to leftist ideology and concomitant mismanagement. Stupid people will continue to blame seemingly isolated events - wild fires, Covid, global warming, draught, whatever - but we all know the real cause.
“Ours run on propane.”
Next up: ban propane.
Welcome to California, the land of fruits and nuts!
Vote Democrats for state office and turn into a third world state.
Vote Democrats for federal office and turn into a third world country.
Fuel?
It runs off of an electric motor tied to the grid!
BTW, what they don't tell you at Costco is that nifty solar power unit they're trying to sell you will NOT run unless there is grid power to set the frequency and phase sync!
I wish Trump would schedule a rally in Cali.
I think he could win the state.
Maybe New York too.
It just occurred to me when I read your post about getting a Generac that with Biden’s statement to close down all of the coal and oil industry, that means the end of natural gas production, thus anyone with a Generac or other brand natural gas generator, or gas furnace, stove, etc., will end up with useless pieces of metal. And power companies will be left with non-power producing power plants, the ones that run on natural gas.
Fake News. Check out the Affected Areas map:
https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outages/map/?type=forecasted
The possible affected areas covers about 1% of the population of the Bay Area. It does cover most of the Bay Area counties, but only the least populated areas are each.
“Are people accepting these power outages as an inevitable fact of life, or are they getting fed up with it?”
Depends who you ask. We live at the end of a service line so we probably experience more than our average shore of outages meaning, we are kind of used to it.
The outages or Public Safety Power Shutdowns (PSPS) are becoming more precise and a lot shorter. I also think some of it is actuarialy based meaning PG&E is getting better at calculating where problems may occur and how much risk the wish to assume.
People fail to realize that PG&E is hamstrung by the state with all sorts of mandates that had nothing to do with safety; they can very quickly tell us how many people of a particular race are employed by them but not how much equipment needs replacement. You get what you vote for.
I am also amused by the PSPS because after our fires (Nuns/Tubb) in 2017 people were screaming that PG&E should have shut the power off given the forecast; now that they are doing it, they are upset. Be careful what you ask for and sue over.
People are also very resistant toward PG&E removing vegetation and trees to make the lines safer. Often, their crews and contractors need an armed presence to protect them from people angry over tree removal or trimming.
During the Nuns Fire, we were 22 days without power. We got by and had a small generator to save a few things. Having been a Marine Infantryman, I didn’t think it bad at all nor did my wife. Also, doing without power for a day or two (Usually what a PSPS is) or even a week so my neighbors do not lose their homes or their lives is fine by me and a small thing to do, in my book.
I understand people being upset about the state’s mismanagement though it actually has more to do with people’s voting and their belief that every problem is due to some corporation rather than decades of democratic rule.
The PG&E employees are great. During the Nuns Fire, while fire crews were battling the blaze and aircraft were dropping water and retardant, I witnessed a PG&E crew erecting poles and stringing line within a few hundred yards of the blaze. I always watch these lineman work. They are incredibly brave and risk their lives for us everyday. Sadly, most are afraid one someone from the public approaches them as they have been harassed so much.
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