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Calif. blackouts
Cornflk1
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Sure is too bad that 800,000 k electrical consumers had to go without power. Guess that's what they get for wanting to live in a utopia :roll: With the states complete control over everything, they now want to blame the utility company for "poor management", California State legislature, why don't you allow proper brush and tree removal so wildfires don't burn down entire citys ???????
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Shut down the grid to prevent brush fires to prevent injuries and death.
What kinds of injuries, deaths and other emergencies are created when there is no power?
Heard it over the water cooler, so take it with a grain of salt.
Yes, this is why the power was secured.
Sue the hand that feeds you, and act surprised when you go hungry. Makes a lot of sense.
Brad Steele
I live where 2 interstates cross and they pretty-much operate at capacity.
Government wants to "enlarge" them but that requires more money than even the Clinton Foundation could steal in 10-years.
So public awareness must be raised.
Hmmmm, how do we do that?
Lots of traffic slowdowns for maintenance, lane closures and full shutdowns everytime there is an accident. Get the voters upset so they will approve the $billions to "fix" the roads!
Around here, we see a closure delay, on the average, 2 out of every 3 trips.
My wife has doctor appointments in Roanoke and it has become quicker to take the slower sideroads and backroads.
Sooooooo...I suspect the power moguls in CA are looking for money or at least a change in libility or maybe even enviromental laws.
Gov. Newsome calls that greed. There is no winning for PG&E.
I live in northern CA and have a home in southern Oregon. Guess which state clears its brush and requires its citizens to do likewise? It isn't the "5th largest economy in the world" and no surprise - it is the state that doesn't regularly have millions of acres burn to a crisp.
The same people have run CA for decades. CA citizens keep voting them in. My sympathy level is very low for anyone who suffers as a result of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
I wouldn't go back there for anything these days and sadly some that I know who live there are so far from true reality, it's unbelievable.
My wish is the people in California just stay there and live/enjoy the mess they have created. Don't infect other states with your mindlessness.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Yep, Woof'ille (Wytheville).
Actually, I'm about 20 miles from town...near the shot tower. Wave as you drive by.
They say the climate is mild and the scenery is breath taking however the land is too expensive and taxes are outrageous and gun ownership is a burden to exercise. They can keep it and succeed from the union as far as I care.
serf
What makes you think the voters are CITIZENS? Why do you think they keep importing & protecting all the illegals they can find?
So we're establishing a Constitutional right to electricity? I wonder what, if any alternatives this man had in place for any other power outage? I'm sure some crappy california jury will have no problem sticking it to the power company. PG&E might as well cut the check and pass it on to their customers.
PG&E petitioned the State to handle the first two, and fund some of the third. A Bill was drawn up, and passed unanimously by both sides (that could be a first) and Moonbeam Jerry Brownstain, vetoed the Bill. He had already looted the funds where that money would have come from.
You'll have to really dig to find any of that in the news, liberal media has buried it.
PG&E was already widening the right of ways where they could, when the Santa Rosa fire hit. Brownstain got caught between a rock and a hard spot. He didn't want the veto story front and center, and he didn't want the public to know, that cartel paid illegals started almost all those fires in pot grow areas. The place where one fire started that PG&E was found at fault, was where a tree fell into the lines. It was on property that there was a landowner/tree hugger dispute.
Try to find that story now, it's been wiped from the internet, along with the story about one of the illegals that was caught red handed lighting one of those fires. He was placed in the Sonoma City jail, which just happened to be a sanctuary city. ICE wanted him in a bad way, and they wouldn't turn him over. That news has vanished as well.
Shortly after the SR fire, the State once again mandated, that PG&E had to shut down power in fire danger areas when winds reached a certain speed. They knew the winds were going way above that in the Paradise area. They refused PG&E's request to start shutting down until the wind speed reach the turn off point.
If you just flip the Off switch on transmission lines, it fries the grid, costing millions to repair. Instead of a day without power, it might be months. By the time PG&E got the power off, wind speeds had doubled, and the fire added speed to the wind as well.
Tree huggers made it impossible for home owners to clear a fire safety zone around their properties. Those areas of Paradise that burnt to the ground, had large pine trees growing 2ft from the houses. Add to that, the whole area was covered in a thick mat of pine needles and Manzanita brush. A plastic jug of gas would have had a better chance.
The PUC started PG&E's decline when they forced them to sell power at half the cost to produce it! Before that, for a couple of decades PG&E nation wide, rated the highest in service, best utility stock, and the lowest rates. Then guberment took over.
From what I've seen in the last 48hrs, I think this has been a political power play by PG&E, to wake people up to what Sacramento is doing since the media buries it. Sacramento has done everything in their power to destroy a private business, so they can buy it up cheap with taxpayer money, and we all know how well guberment runs a business.
Might be a complete fail though, you just can't fix stupid.
They are so with the clean enviornment, they push everyone to get an electric car.
THEN THEY TURN THE POWER OFF!
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
That actually makes more sense to me than their cover story.