PG&E power shut-offs begin: Up to 185,000 Bay Area customers in the dark.
Only in third world Trashcanistans do you have to worry about your electricity going off. And, now, in California. Or should that be Californistan?
PG&E finished the first phase of a power shut-off at 4 a.m. Wednesday, leaving at least 185,000 customers in the San Francisco Bay Area in the dark to mitigate wildfire risk.
In the Bay Area, the focus of the first phase was mainly on the North Bay; Customers in portions of Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties are without power. Throughout the state 513,000 customers were impacted in the first round of shut-offs..
The second phase will start around noon Wednesday, and in the Bay Area shut-offs will occur in parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
A third phase is under consideration and specific locations are still to be determined.
The power is still on here in Redding, but I'm on the city's grid, not PG&E.
Governor Newsome says we should be outraged. I remind him of the fate of Grey Davis, a prior "governor" who was, in quite extraordinary fashion, recalled from power for gross mismanagement of the power grid.
how many of those affected areas are democrat voting strongholds?
ReplyDeleteAnything on the coast and in SF and LA is hyper liberal. Anything interior and north is red. It's politically two states, and it's why there's a movement to split the state. You wouldn't believe how many people support the "State of Jefferson" up here.
Deletewas based out of McClellan AFB in the 1970s. north of the sacramento river to the oregon border was a wonderful place to go when I was stateside. enjoyed flying into Placerville off of US-50 to get a decent steak at the old Sportsman Inn. did a lot of fishing in the Sierras whenever time/duty allowed. Peaceful. Beautiful. Good people.
Deleteeven in the 1970's if you drew a line from SF to Sacremento to LA and carved it off the rest of the state, it would have not been a bad thing. just my opinion and means nothing.
If the state of Jefferson ever happens, I am moving there.
The State of Jefferson back when it started (pre-WW2) included southern Oregon. Is it more than a barn top visible from I-5 way up north today?
ReplyDeleteMany more signs, lots of bumper stickers. Practically speaking, there's nothing near the organization in either state that it would require to make it happen, but it's a start.
DeleteWe have power up Lakehead area. Snow hit us 18 years ago and we lost power for 21 days. If you live out in the woods.. You need a woodstove, propane kitchen stove, at least a 5k generator propane fueled and at least a 2500 gal water tank.
DeleteSOJ checkout Mark Baird "You-Tube" on the State of Jefferson. I stopped telling folks I'm from Ca, I live in the State of Jefferson!
Good to hear you've got juice up in Lakehead. All that is good advice, but such preparations shouldn't be needed in a first world country like this used to be. Venezuela, or Uganda, maybe, but the pols like to claim California is the sixth largest economy in the world - so why don't the lights stay on?
DeleteAs an aside, is that Klondike Klub place next to the freeway any good, or is it a dive bar (which doesn't necessarily mean it's not good)?
Power has been off for 2 days in metropolitan Pine Grove. Weather has been beautiful and wind has been calm. PG&E is doing this to get people riled up enough to pressure the craven California legislature to pass a law banning or greatly limiting the People's ability to hold them liable for damages resulting from wildfires that are created by inadequate line maintenance.
ReplyDeleteAs my namesake once said - Leck mich am Arsch!
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