Racism!!!!
“While people and companies with means could turn to businesses like Ms. Maynes for backup power, many others did not have that luxury. When they tried to get more information, answers were often not forthcoming.”
Fire requires 2 things, spark and fuel. The Government supplied all the fuel with their forest management practices, PG&E just the spark.
This is serving as a wonderful preview for what implementation of the Green New Deal would result in.
California seems to be experiencing great difficulties.
Will these reach as many as “The 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT?”
Things did not go well, according to PG&E spokesman Charlie Foxtrot...
I can’t imagine Californians taking this so well. Try this in Texas and Austin would be nothing but ashes.
Don’t see any problem. Doesn’t every CA’ian homeowner have solar panels on the roof, and monster batteries in the basement, with backup windmill in the backyard?
If it’s windy enough to shut the power, the windmills will supply everything.
And, if everything goes caput, at least they can drive their coal-powered electric cars to a shelter...
Calizuela.
Residents were left asking why so many people had to lose power and whether rolling blackouts would become routine as climate change makes wildfires more frequent and intense.
Is Climate Change in the NYT’s style manual or what? They never miss a chance to put it in a article.
Memory from my childhood. Did they not use to cut power in South Florida when the hurricane winds hit a certain speed back in the early 70s?
Not sure if I am remembering correctly.
Isn’t the term “investor owned utility” an oxymoron?
Yawn. California can cry for sympathy after they restore belts of cleared agricultural land to break up the maximum size of the fires and clear out the underbrush.
Thats a prerequisite, they’ve been told to fix their stupid for fourty years by people from responsible states, and their problems are largely self inflicted.
Out power company does a power outage prevention program for Ice storms. They will trim tree back from the power lines here. That has help us in SC a lot, since they started doing it.
This company is guilty of premeditated murder. I believe that northern California is the conservative part of that state, is it not? Was this an exercise in how the coming civil war will be carried out? Cut off their power, isolate them, and then what?
Neither was forcing power generation out of your state but you did it anyway.
FReepers wanting to avoid a visit to msn.com, always a good idea, can read the original article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/pge-california-outage.html
PG&E won the battle. Their customers will react in some manner that will bring about change.
The outcome of the war is presently undecided.
What did people think would happen when they sued the electric company into Bankruptcy?? they would just gladly open themselves up to more liability from the very same people??
DISCONNECT AND ABANDON ALL TRANSMISSION LINES that go through mismanaged densely forested areas, Tell those Counties, you want Power YOU BUY THE LINES!!! and the Liability,Maintenance,...and you can charge for the transmission of power too.