California - PG&E begins to cut power for up to 800,000 Customers

[SUPER X]

When I see the hordes of people lining the sidewalks to live in filth I tend to think the damn bulb burnt out a while back. I remember as a kid the first time we went into Mexico. Not just across the border but way down to the ocean. I remember watching the people in the small towns. I had no idea people lived like that. Now it is how they live in one of the largest cities in the most prosperous county in the world.

I was there in the 80s walking 2 blocks off the tourist main drag it was huts made of sticks, cardboard or what ever could be scavaged . Sick looking dogs and chickens. Still a step above where California is now.

 

[Dunes190203]

The line inspection helos started yesterday in many rural areas in advance of getting the lines re-energized.

However, overnight in SoCal, even with some power shutdowns, there's quite a fire going on in the Sylmar area....

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Jumped the 210 and 5 and is making quite a mess of things.

 

[ATCclears]

Nothing new. Be prepared (in advance). Some snippets:


The mayhem broke out before the lights were even cut. Peter Nelson, one of the owners of the Savage Henry Comedy Club, walked into Costco on Tuesday afternoon for what he thought would be a normal shopping trip to stock up on snacks for a festival he was hosting this week. "As I stepped through the door, some guy shoved me, like really hard," Mr. Nelson, 30 years old, said. "As I went to look at who shoved me, I realized it was just mayhem. Everyone was shoving everyone."


In Garberville, in the far south of Humboldt County, shoppers continued visiting Rays Food Place grocery store after sunset, even though the lights were out. They were let in four at a time to prevent looting, and had to use flashlights to navigate the store and pay with cash, said Steven Cohn, an employee.


Cami Kane, a 39-year-old manicurist whose salon stayed closed Wednesday, spent most of the day trying to get her two generators up and running at her home in McKinleyville, north of Eureka. She didn't succeed, and by sunset, the house was getting cold as the outdoor temperature dropped into the 40s. She took her 2-year-old son, Hunter, out to get food at Toni's, one of the local restaurants running on a generator. She found the place mobbed; the wait for a cheeseburger was 90 minutes.

Looting, Gas Lines and a Packed Comedy Club: 24 Hours in Blacked-Out Rural California

For roughly 24 hours, Humboldt County was without electricity, part of the planned outages by PG&E to mitigate wildfire danger. The mayhem broke out before the lights were even cut.

www.wsj.com

 

[Alexx1401]

Nothing new. Be prepared (in advance). Some snippets:


The mayhem broke out before the lights were even cut. Peter Nelson, one of the owners of the Savage Henry Comedy Club, walked into Costco on Tuesday afternoon for what he thought would be a normal shopping trip to stock up on snacks for a festival he was hosting this week. "As I stepped through the door, some guy shoved me, like really hard," Mr. Nelson, 30 years old, said. "As I went to look at who shoved me, I realized it was just mayhem. Everyone was shoving everyone."


In Garberville, in the far south of Humboldt County, shoppers continued visiting Rays Food Place grocery store after sunset, even though the lights were out. They were let in four at a time to prevent looting, and had to use flashlights to navigate the store and pay with cash, said Steven Cohn, an employee.


Cami Kane, a 39-year-old manicurist whose salon stayed closed Wednesday, spent most of the day trying to get her two generators up and running at her home in McKinleyville, north of Eureka. She didn't succeed, and by sunset, the house was getting cold as the outdoor temperature dropped into the 40s. She took her 2-year-old son, Hunter, out to get food at Toni's, one of the local restaurants running on a generator. She found the place mobbed; the wait for a cheeseburger was 90 minutes.

Looting, Gas Lines and a Packed Comedy Club: 24 Hours in Blacked-Out Rural California

For roughly 24 hours, Humboldt County was without electricity, part of the planned outages by PG&E to mitigate wildfire danger. The mayhem broke out before the lights were even cut.

www.wsj.com

A small example of how things will go if we have a massive failure of society. This is something people have lots of warning is coming and it turns this bad? Just imagine if something happens nation wide with no warning? Should be interesting to watch.

 

[oli700]

This is going to start happening in southwest OR. PPL was poised last summer it just wasn't bad enough to pull the trigger.

 

[Joe pat]

Hmm sounds like a corporate scare tactic, where are the politicians now?

 

[nammac]

When I see the hordes of people lining the sidewalks to live in filth I tend to think the damn bulb burnt out a while back. I remember as a kid the first time we went into Mexico. Not just across the border but way down to the ocean. I remember watching the people in the small towns. I had no idea people lived like that. Now it is how they live in one of the largest cities in the most prosperous county in the world.

That's cause Kalifornia has become the left/socialist/liberal/democrat utopia. They want all of the United States to be just like Kali....

 

[Dunes190203]

Good point. One thing to watch is whose power is cut and whose isn't. This kind of widespread programmed outage is pretty much unheard of in my lifetime in CA. Where do the politicians and Chicoms live and work? Given, generally, that rural/mountain CA (and rural/mountain OR and WA) are mostly conservative, cut their power for 'reasons' and make them suffer. Deplete their reserves, demoralize them. We're already seeing stories of areas not affect by weather at all where the power outage lengths are costing citizens dearly, and with pretty much zero recourse. Then, like greedy money worshipers have a history of doing, 'save' them. Plenty of precedence for that. Are humans that cruel? Yes! Watch, next thing insurance companies will be selling 'power outage insurance'! Heck they probably already do! It's a game guys we all know it. We simply roll over and put up with it.

Hmm sounds like a corporate scare tactic, where are the politicians now?

 

[jblake00]

These power outages are just to get people use to no power, so when the environmental people push for less energy consumption, people will be a little more used to it.

 

[Xaevian]

Meanwhile, the CA illegal immigrants are wondering what happened to their utopia...

Did they not cross the right border?

 

[thorborg]

Any, especially rural, property owner knows serious intent and hard work are continually required to hold back mother nature.
No breather here, you either go with natures flow, or pencil in more than a few weekends, and keep the chain saw sharp and handy.

 

[Ura-Ki]

 

[Ura-Ki]

Hadn't thought about the sheeple being smart enough to try the airport for fuel, gonna have to change my plans to account for that!
I would do the same thing, drain the tanks on my plane, BUT I would be careful to only do it at night.
Bonus is I can also use Jet-A in my Cummins, so that's good, and I know where and how to go about getting it!

 

[Dunes190203]

Yup, and if it's a fire country airport, even a small one like Nevada County, they'll have a full stock of JetA for the Cal-Fire turboprops and contractor helos. I've followed Juan's work since the Oroville spillway debacle a couple years ago. His ground and aerial reporting on that gained him quite an audience.

 

[SUPER X]

Hadn't thought about the sheeple being smart enough to try the airport for fuel, gonna have to change my plans to account for that!
I would do the same thing, drain the tanks on my plane, BUT I would be careful to only do it at night.
Bonus is I can also use Jet-A in my Cummins, so that's good, and I know where and how to go about getting it!

Your pickup could leave chem trails

 

[PiratePast40]

Yup, and if it's a fire country airport, even a small one like Nevada County, they'll have a full stock of JetA for the Cal-Fire turboprops and contractor helos. I've followed Juan's work since the Oroville spillway debacle a couple years ago. His ground and aerial reporting on that gained him quite an audience.

Same here, still subscribed to the thread on ARF. Should subscribe to the Blancolerio channel too.

 

[Dunes190203]

Unfortunately, as some of us know about from publishing gun related topics, YouTube is selectively demonitizing Juan's work on aviation topics as 'sad' content so he's having to learn to play that game. He doesn't publish any content on guns that I've ever seen, just aircraft stuff and adventures with his family. Until Oroville, hardly anyone viewed his content. He also published some good content on the Camp Fire last year, including checking out the PG&E transmission corridors up there.

 

[RicInOR]

I've got a generator,

A generator is a sign of privileged.

You can't use it unless everyone can. ;-)

 

[Ura-Ki]

OK, 50 % Of all Generators purchased this week have failed due to the wrong fuel, or no fuel available! Privilege? Nope! Stupid yes! Do not run AV gas in your gen-set, and dont run diesel or other fuel oils! Dumbarses!

 

[Dunes190203]

Yeah, gensets need a Hoover filler. Too bad that kind of standarization will never hit the consumer market. Bob saved a lot of pilots over the decades with a simple idea.