Caiso Outlook For California Power, 11 July 2002

Caiso ^ | 11 JULY 2002 | Caiso

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the Caiso stituation graph for today, 11 July 2002:

[Grampa Dave]

Because my nice and compact Melitta Mill & Brew does all of these functions without terrorizing our household and neighborhood.

We load it up the night before and set the time to start the milling and brewing about 3-5 minutes before we want to wake up.

The grinding and milling of the whole coffee beans wakes us up with the milling/grinding sweet noises. Then we smell the fresh ground coffee beans. Then a couple of minutes later we smell the fresh coffee being brewed. No alarm is needed.

Then, my wife kicks me out of bed to get her cup of coffee topped with Clover Chocolate Milk. I get and deliver most of her cup to her. Then, I stagger back to the kitchen and fill up my "World's Best Grampa!" kingsize 24 ounce mug.

I make it to my office where my computer is with most of the coffee to turn the computer on and to log on to FR. I apologize to all when my early posts looks like Gramp lost it. I just never had it until the coffee kicks in to awaken my CNS system.

So, I don't need your German Teutonic Titanic coffee maker from hell.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, I didn't realize that they had 30 days of voluntary manditory nut cutting powers.

[snopercod]

MWD shed 101 MW of pump load from 1524 to 1815 and CDWR shed 204 MW of pump load from 1545 to 1900.

See, the solution to the "crisis" is simple. Just stop pumping water over the mountains to Los Angeles!

[snopercod]

CAISO reported they were short on spinning reserve from 1500 to 1522 due to the loss of Ormond Beach Unit #2 while generating 350 MW.

Is California importing power from Florida now? (Ormond beach is just North of Daytona.)

[Grampa Dave]

I can live without the nicotine, but the coffee, sugar and meat fat are essentials.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Stop your laughing it works.

In fact it works so well if we go on vacation and stay at one place for a week or more, GramMa makes me pack that coffee pot and take it with us.

[Grampa Dave]

Folks we are under a new Red Flag Weather Advisory Warning.

Here is the copy of my flash email I just got:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SACRAMENTO CA
330 PM PST THU JUL 11 2002

...A RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY
FOR THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND DELTA REGION AS
WELL AS FOR THE SAN MATEO-SANTA CRUZ...SANTA CLARA UNITS...THE EAST
BAY HILLS AND THE SONOMA-LAKE NAPA UNITS...

...A RED FLAG WARNING IS EXTENDED FOR TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRIDAY
MORNING FOR THE WEST SLOPES OF THE NORTHERN SIERRA NEVADA AND
ADJACENT FOOTHILLS. THIS INCLUDES THE TAHOE AND ELDORADO NATIONAL
FORESTS AND THE NEVADA-YUBA-PLACER AND AMADOR-ELDORADO CDF RANGER
UNITS...

THIS INCLUDES FIRE WEATHER ZONES 535...536...538...541...546 THRU
550...552 THRU 554...558..559..561...562 THRU 564 AND 566.

STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS NEVADA WILL PRODUCE A SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW
OF UNSTABLE AIR. THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN A FEW DRY LIGHTNING STRIKES
ACROSS THE SIERRA. IN ADDITION...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE
WILL DRIFT UP FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OVERNIGHT. THESE FEATURES
WILL ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED DRY THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE
SIERRA MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS...THE SOUTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY AND
DELTA REGION...AS WELL AS MUCH OF THE BAY AREA.

BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON MOST OF THIS MOISTURE SHOULD MOVE NORTH OF THE
AREA...WITH ONLY A FEW LINGERING STORMS ACROSS THE HIGH SIERRA BY
FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ACCOMPANIED BY SOME
PRECIPITATION BY THEN.

PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS AND FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD
OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING.

BASIL

Great! I had planned to drive up to the Yuba to try my new Spey Rod out.

It is best not to be standing in a River, waiving 15 foot of Graphite Fly Rod in a lightening storm. One bolt could power a small town for a day and fry your haveros for eternity.

Please pass this warning to all N. Californians you know.

It should be pinged on the enviral list. Dry lightening storms in enviral tinder box forests is a nightmare.

[eureka!]

"Great! I had planned to drive up to the Yuba to try my new Spey Rod out."

I feel your pain. ;^)

Seriously, it definitely is a tinderbox out there and here's hoping nothing happens. *fingers crossed*.

[tubebender]

A tropical front is moving over Northern Cal. Could bring lots of BAD BAD Lightning to the mountains. I remember flying from SF to Eureka one night when there were many many fires burning. You could see them from the coast to Mt Lassen. This was in the late 80s.

[Grampa Dave]

I remember flying from Eureka to Sacramento on an evening flight in the fall of 1976. It was a drought year and there were fires from Eureka to Redding due to electrical strikes.

That was on the famous Eureka Aero. We had this crazy pilot who flew in Nam and flew the fire retardant planes when he wasn't flying for Eureka Aero.. He went down into the canyons to check things out for the fire drop guys. Then, he radioed to the forest service planes where to drop the retardant.

My boss at that time, who is now 80 something was on that flight, has never forgotten that flight, nor have I. Crazy George, the pilot got fired later from Eureka Aero. Rumors was that after takeoff from the field in Arcata he rolled the plane in a 360 while going over the euc trees and over the ocean.