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Well got to see one of the first fires of the year down here (San Diego) Monday. It was quickly contained but the grass and small bushes are tall and very dry already. Already talk of Red Flag wind warnings that shut down everything work wise.
 
LA used to be a rainforest before it was developed. If you wanna destroy public property like damns and grids do it the legal way, don't destroy the community because you disagree with it.

LA was a desert until the water was "stolen" from the Owens Valley via a 233 mile long "river" thanks to William Mulholland. There used to be a giant lake there but now it is a dry lake with the runoff from the eastern Sierras going into LA. You will see LADWP vehicles along highway 395 around Lone Pine and "Keep out, property of LA" signs...200 miles from the city. Maybe if you go back to the dinosaurs, but at some point in time most areas were either a rainforest, desert, covered in ice or water. Mulholland was a god (little g) to LA in the early 1900's.
 
We had two power outages in Dallas, OR last week. Both blamed on wild animals. :rolleyes: The longest outage was blamed on a "bird."

So much for redundancy in the power grid.

You know you are in trouble when Warren Buffet buys your "regulated public utility." :eek:
 
We had two power outages in Dallas, OR last week. Both blamed on wild animals. :rolleyes: The longest outage was blamed on a "bird."

So much for redundancy in the power grid.

You know you are in trouble when Warren Buffet buys your "regulated public utility." :eek:

Not hard to believe. A bird is somewhat unlikely but a squirrel absolutely. Seen it many times. Seen lots of dead birds and squirrels on the ground dead next to poles. Squirrels chew on stuff and can do a lot of damage as long as the dont touch ground/pole.

As for redundancy its almost impossible to have in a city on distribution. Your outage probably didn't last more then an hour or two.
 
Not hard to believe. A bird is somewhat unlikely but a squirrel absolutely. Seen it many times. Seen lots of dead birds and squirrels on the ground dead next to poles. Squirrels chew on stuff and can do a lot of damage as long as the dont touch ground/pole.

As for redundancy its almost impossible to have in a city on distribution. Your outage probably didn't last more then an hour or two.

And it didn't really affect "the grid" - i.e., it was local. I have 4-5 power outages up here on the mountain every year. Some are cars going off the windy mountain road, taking out a power pole. Others are wind/ice/snow (sometimes all three together) taking down a line. But it mostly only affects local systems, not the widespread grid. We are used to it.
 
The first lasted 8 hours for us. We are near the end of the line, with only a rock quarry and the city water intake beyond us. The power was restored to part of Dallas in about 4 hours, and other parts were restored in stages. Kind of odd, black on one side of the main street, and normal on the other.

We used to have a maintenance crew stationed here. Then Scottish Power bought PP&L, closed the smaller facilities and moved our maintenance to Albany. Now it takes an hour for them to send someone out to look at a problem, and another hour for a crew to get there and begin work. Plus, no one really knows the local grid - they only have maps provided by the office. One time I had to show the repair crew that there were fuses on a pole that weren't on their map!

Meanwhile, bright young MBA earned bonuses by paying for the acquisition by cutting services. :mad::mad::mad:
 

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