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Crow Bar 7 months, 3 weeks ago.
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The new normal.
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California Blackout Threat Ramps Up for 1 Million Residents
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wildfire-risk-critical-southern-california-123051385.html
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I got this this morning in our local news: California Starting Another Mass Blackout to Avoid Wildfires
Our utilities here in SA called Eskom, would say: Here, hold my beer, let us show you how … (cwl)
We in South Africa know all about rolling blackouts. We have become masters at that!!!
However, some of us discussed the problem there in the USA recently: Power lines going through forests is a common issue all over the world. The solution is to clear a wide swathe of vegetation underneath the lines as a fire break which also serves as “maintenance road” to drive along the lines.
What are we missing?
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@TTT,
From what I understand, and the dozen or more times I have been out there, some of the power lines are in very remote, rural, or hilly/mountainous areas.
Gross miss-management on PG&E side, leading to lack of funds (and then they went bankrupt), and they still cannot afford the upgraded equipment or manpower to implement the upgrades, and maintenance to prevent wildfires.
IIRC, one of the big fires last year was due to a tower that was built in the early 1900s, that needed replaced.
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AAAA thanks Crow Bar, remote areas and the inevitable gross miss-management resulting in lack of funds and even corruption I suppose, the same old story all over wherever we look.
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This reply was modified 7 months, 3 weeks ago by
The Terrible Triplet.
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Mismanagement is one thing, however creating laws to prevent even mismanagement is another.
Believe me when I say that I am no fan of the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) in our neck of the woods. But at the same time, the state of Wyoming hasn’t passed laws preventing the BLM from doing its “job” either.
Which if you look, Cali has created some of the most ridiculous laws, preventing the removal of entire areas of brush and timber, regardless of the condition they are in.
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Yea, I’ve read some reports on some of the laws in Cali … seems the more affluent a state/country becomes:
1) the more out of tune/sync they are with what actually happens on the ground,
2) the more they earn, the more bored they get with the mundane everyday common sense stuff
3) resulting in more and more silly laws that they “think” makes sense.
4) the bigger the gap gets between rich and poor …
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Lot of the laws I’ve seen Kali and the East Coast pass are aimed at curtailing a freedom the liberal left don’t approve of. Freedom thievery, pure and simple. We used to hang horse thieves and rustlers. Perhaps we should have been focusing on politicians instead….
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Huge swath of California could go dark with widest power outages yet expected this weekend
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-24/utility-power-outages-weekend-wind-california
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