Posted on 10/11/2019 2:35:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The power is out in Northern California. More than 1 million Californians are now without electricity, one of modern life’s essentials that is frequently taken for granted. The blackout was done on purpose—to prevent sparks from powerlines that could ignite deadly wildfires.
Before planned blackouts are through in two or three days, as many as 3 million Californians may go without power. On the surface, the blackout and its causes are simple to understand. But the deeper causes are complicated, span decades of public policy, and dozens of overlapping unintended—and intended—consequences of decisions, both related and unrelated.
The wind in Northern California is blowing in from dry Nevada, as it often does this time of year. It’s called the “Diablo wind.” In Southern California, the comparable current blowing in from the Mojave Desert is known as the “Santa Ana winds.”
In both cases, as the wind rises above California’s mountain spine, then descends, it compresses and heats up. Forests, chaparral and brush, dry this time of year in California’s Mediterranean climate, are primed for wildfires.
This Isn’t Climate Change
Michael Wara, Stanford University’s director of climate and energy policy, warns, “We are having to adapt to new circumstances brought about by climate change.” He estimates that this week’s blackout could cost the state as much as $2.6 billion in lost economic activity.
Politicians, journalists, and some scientists repeat a common refrain: California is getting hotter and drier because of climate change. They ignore the fact that annual precipitation totals over the past 100 years show no statistically meaningful trend.
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I wonder if it is windy on Nov 3, 2020, they will turn off the power to 800,000 Californians?
MY ELECTRIC CAR WON’T START, I AM GOING TO FRY......LOL
I would certainly hope so! :-D
Most of the time with three days of Lights Out it was dead still for a little while yesterday it got Breezy and the TV stations were all in on it talking about all these high winds.
Listened to music on the radio even the DJ would say the high winds witch weren’t.
See the last sentence.
Good article. Thanks.
Here is a good citizen reporter, just tells it like it is, Talks about how the media keep blaming climate change for these shut offs when it is as simple as aging and neglected infrastructure. Just a report from on the ground in N. Cal.
N. California PG&E Power Outage Day 2 “Calpocalypse” UPDATE
https://youtu.be/7m1xcX_X0wc
I found this guy showing progress on Oroville dam. He is a professional pilot and does videos every time there is a plane crash with much better information than you can get from the news. Today he put this one out... he seems to be mostly prepared.
I wonder how long it will be before something major breaks after being shutdown and re-started and shutdown and re-started and shutdown and......? Big machinery doesn’t always behave well when subjected to such treatment.
Eureka/Humbolt County is rural...
the big cities will behave much much worse, imho
(be prepared)!
only leftists could implement policies that end up forcing power to be disconnected due to wind, at the same time that windmills would be working their best ...
I know a Stanford egghead who thinks water is a greenhouse gas.
There has been electrical power in CA for 100 years , and most of the early years the lines were way cruder and less safe, the lines survived many seasons of droughts and wind storms but now all of a sudden its a safety hazard ? BS
One of the few cogent articles on what is happening here, and what caused it.
The only important point missing is the fact that we are two years into recovering from an 8 year drought.
That recovery takes at least 10 years of normal precipitation.
And something has to be done with those 10s of millions of dead trees. But it looks like nature is taking care of that.
“Last year was way above average and 2017 was the wettest year on record”
Ain’t it hilarious how they never ever mention that?
They’re babbling about climate change with NO areas of the state in drought. Well manybe next to Calexico but that’s the real desert! Normal life there...
Mass Hysteria and Lies
I don't think they thought this one through.
[Here is a good citizen reporter, just tells it like it is, Talks about how the media keep blaming climate change for these shut offs when it is as simple as aging and neglected infrastructure. Just a report from on the ground in N. Cal.]
Oh the truth is not going to sit well with Greta Thunberg liberals.
And that’s the night that the lights went out in parts of California. (a song Sonny Bono turned down for Cher - so it went to Vicki Lawrence)
“Climate Change” is a Gaia-worshiping religion.
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