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Nutty Calipornians at it Again! Pacific Gas & Electric implemented a controversial practice of cutting power selected portions of Northern California on Saturday guard against wildfires as the weather turned very windy, dry and . Electricity was turned off around 6 a.m. 1,600 customers in parts of Napa, Solano and Yolo counties. Just as that shutdown was called off, the utility warned 27,000 customers in Butte, Yuba, Nevada, El Dorado and Placer counties that their power would be cut from 9 p.m. through Sunday morning. The end of the earlier shutdown was announced around 4 p.m., and the utility said power would be restored in those areas as soon as crews finished checking lines for any weather-related damage. Conditions ripe for fire — winds, low humidity, dry vegetation and heat — were expected to last into Sunday. The National Weather Service office reported a 71 mph (1 kph) gust on peak in the region. A fire that erupted late in the day in Yolo County was estimated at 0 acres; firefighters halted the spread of another after 25 acres burned northeast of Calistoga in Napa County. The causes were not immediately known. PG&E is pressure prevent fire starts after downed power lines and other company equipment have been blamed for conflagrations that began during so-called fire weather. |
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6/9/2019 8:59 pm |
What about customers who rely on electrically powered life-support equipment?????????
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6/9/2019 9:00 pm |
How about businesses that have had to shut down for lack of power.?????
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6/9/2019 9:01 pm |
MANY of these rural residents have their own wells for waiter to FIGHT The fires!
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6/9/2019 9:04 pm |
Some of our schools went by the weather forecasters and cancelled school because we "might" have snow... Then looked STUPID because the snow never happened... I'd say FIX the dam electric lines in critical areas or put them underground where they KNOW wind damage might occur.
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Big utility companies never do preventive maintenance; they always wait for a failure before fixing anything. Sometimes those failures cause fires. There should be routine government inspections of power lines that spot potential problems and enforcement of timely repairs to be done by the utility company.
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6/9/2019 9:34 pm |
Big utility companies never do preventive maintenance; they always wait for a failure before fixing anything. Sometimes those failures cause fires. There should be routine government inspections of power lines that spot potential problems and enforcement of timely repairs to be done by the utility company.
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6/10/2019 7:42 pm |
His mediocrity is showing.......LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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6/10/2019 7:43 pm |
Just ignore him... that hurts the most... lack of attention.
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6/10/2019 7:45 pm |
I just look at the top of the main posts of those I watch... fuck the other crap.
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6/10/2019 7:45 pm |
I snuck in the back door.
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6/10/2019 7:47 pm |
It's inexcusable ... hope they have back up contingency plans.
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6/10/2019 7:48 pm |
Can't pump gas or ring stuff up on the cash register
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6/10/2019 7:50 pm |
I have never seen a solar powered water pump unless they have a large storage tank to assist
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6/10/2019 7:52 pm |
They answer to their stockholders while the customers suffer.
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6/10/2019 7:53 pm |
I bet it is back now... incompetent staffers with English as a second language.
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6/10/2019 7:55 pm |
High taxes and a sanctuary state kept us from investing there.
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6/10/2019 7:55 pm |
Glad to see ya dropped by!
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6/10/2019 7:57 pm |
IF areas are prone to wind damage underground is the only recourse in my book
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