Posted on 10/30/2019 2:47:05 PM PDT by lowbridge
Many people are without cell service after PG&E cut power to two milllion people and wildfires burn across California.
In Marin County, close to 50 percent of all cell sites are down. In Sonoma County, 17 percent of sites are without power.
"The biggest concern is that when it comes to 911 calls, 81 percent of 911 calls are made from your wireless phone so having cell sites down it's an incredible public safety concern that consumers cannot access emergency services," said Ana Maria Johnson with the California Public Utilities Commission.
Johnson said cell towers don't have back-up power systems because cell companies are not required to do so.
The Public Advocates Office, an independent organization within the California Public Utilities Commission, has petitioned the CPUC to require cellular companies to have generators and back-up batteries on-site.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvu.com ...
“Are they going to install a generator for every neighborhood 5G tower?”
5G doesn’t work that way. Very short range signals. We are installing the fiber infrastructure to support it. The antennas go in light poles, etc.
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Ditto that.
I can see that that New Green Deal is going to work out wonderfully well, eh?
Imagine the horror of the 70% of the population that go around all day looking like a phone has been surgically attached to their head !
(this may have a beneficial impact on automotive txt-ing stupidity .. wonder how many won't die 'cuz these towers are down ?)
I wondered how many fires would be started by generators and people using candles.
I live in Marin County. Our power was off Saturday-Tuesday. The phones of everyone we texted or called worked - both in our town and at the other end of the county. There's a cell phone tower a short distance from us. On Sunday someone in a pickup truck brought in a generator for it. It's still running.
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Government and Silicon Valley customers cut? Not likely.
For anyone stuck in CA, here’s a handy tip I learned from Haitians - to stave off hunger you can simply put some olive oil on a small dirt patty you press together by hand. Use just enough oil to hold the patty together. Cook on open flame a bit to dry it out. Enjoy!
I talked to our preacher’s wife when we lived in Simi Valley, and they still had cell service. That was around 1:00 today.
PG&E & Democrat party refuses to do the proper maintenance and then shuts off the electricity when the wind blows leaving the people in the dark with no communications and having the road diets restrict the routes out of danger.
People of California ask: “Do you expect me to pay more taxes?”
PG&E & Democrat party: “We expect you to die”.
-PJ
Or the old reliable, smoke signals. Oh wait...
#29 How are those spotted owls doing?
Broiled and fried.
The spoiled rich in Marin are having tigers....
kittens are not violent enough.
LOL
Progressive Heaven
1) Native American smoke signals ((smoke they got--big time!))
2) messages by drums as Pacific Islanders
3) cup your hands beside your mouth and yell for help
4) move to a civilized part of the US without a Uni-party Dem-Socialist government that destroys civilization wherever found. Leave your Dem politics behind with your other garbage, please.
The last time we had an extended power outage I was disappointed to pick up our land line and find it didn’t work anymore. Digital switching circuits or something. Also your gas station pumps won’t be accepting cards. Cash only.
I wonder if those repeaters for Ham radio were taken down before the fire.
That was in a movie on Netflix recently:
Demfinger, A 007 Thriller. He was about to be cut in half by a California government agent's laser beam but then Newsom cut all the region's power off and he was saved.
Sequel is The Man With the Golden Socialist Tax Plan. Spoiler ending: 007 puts on the beard, cap and clothes of Lenin,pretends to be a Lenin mannequin and suddenly shoots the income resdistributing governor who is on the way to kill Bond with a 90% tax on the wealthy.
Democrats should be doing high fives! Mexifornia is here.
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