This is rather ridiculous

"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
10/09/2019 at 00:47 • Filed to: None

The power company crazy-meter has risen to “1990s rolling blackouts” level of stupid. The map link below links to a Pacific Gas and Electric map. The areas with the black dotted lines are planned outages for tonight. Basically, as a result of years of neglect of the power grid - the only option left is to turn off the power when the wind blows.

This is an entirely solvable engineering problem whether through trimming / clearing of brush, adding failsafes to poles to prevent fires from pulsing, and/or burying lines.

Edit: PGE has also had troubling keeping their website online. “They directed customers to their Twitter handle as an alternative source of up-to-date information.” - I am so glad my mom doesn’t live out here. Telling her to check Twitter would be the last damn straw.

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DISCUSSION (19)

facw > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 01:03

And they are apparently only 1/3 done with their 2019 trimming, and don’t expect to be caught up until 2026 (I wouldn’t bet on it being that quick).

Of course, I don’t get the sense that things are any more broken than they have been in the recent past, just that being driven into bankruptcy by the $20-30B they’ll pay out to settle claims related to the Camp Fire has left them extremely cautious, so with a terrible reputation anyway, why not piss off e veryone to avoid additional liability.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 01:12

I'm told there are lines at the gas stations this evening as well.

Nick Has an Exocet > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/09/2019 at 01:15

Sigh.

vicali > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 01:40

Oh man, c’mon with those labels.. and dashed polygon boundaries are all kinds of nasty on a map like that..

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 01:40

When you have a monopoly, why worry about customer satisfaction?

Nick Has an Exocet > vicali
10/09/2019 at 01:44

It gets worse. This is the default view:

Kinja'd!!!

promoted by the color red > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 01:57

PG&E being fucking terrible? Say it ain’t so!

sony1492 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/09/2019 at 05:21

And the atm’s, in eureka every single gas station was packed into the highway at 8pm.

nermal > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 08:51

I bet the people that installed solar panels without batteries are especially mad about this.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 09:14

I keep a Honda generator and 25 gallons of gasoline on hand.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492
10/09/2019 at 11:03

You’re in Eureka? My daughter lives there.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 11:32

Most of my family lives within one of those boxes.

vicali > Nick Has an Exocet
10/09/2019 at 11:47

Wow, that’s a mess.

sony1492 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/09/2019 at 13:01

Small world

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492
10/09/2019 at 13:21

And I’ve found it impossible, so far, for my daughter to find a competent auto repair business. It seems like everything in Humboldt county is goofed up.

sony1492 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/09/2019 at 15:59

Hu bbards German Auto repair is about the only place I’d vouch for. Johnsons auto electric also seems fairly professional but I’ve only been there for smogs

H umboldts it’s own little world, up until recently the economy was heavily propped up with weed manufacturing (still is in different ways) and distribution but legalization i s changing the dynamic.(interestingly enough the black market is still booming since growing unpermitted is getting cracked down on more then when it was illegal full stop)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492
10/09/2019 at 16:31

Have you seen “Murder Mountain” on Netflix?

sony1492 > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
10/09/2019 at 16:41

Not yet, I’m sure it sensationalized too many things to enjoy.

I grew up across the way in Briceland , with a parent in the industry(not on any large scale, just enough to make a living)

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > sony1492
10/09/2019 at 17:02

I think that’s a reasonable thing to expect, but I’m not so sure it did that. My wife and I are sensitive to that sort of thing as well.