![]() 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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![]() 10/09/2019 at 01:03 |
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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.
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I'm told there are lines at the gas stations this evening as well.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 01:15 |
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Sigh.
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Oh man, c’mon with those labels.. and dashed polygon boundaries are all kinds of nasty on a map like that..
![]() 10/09/2019 at 01:40 |
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When you have a monopoly, why worry about customer satisfaction?
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It gets worse. This is the default view:
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PG&E being fucking terrible? Say it ain’t so!
![]() 10/09/2019 at 05:21 |
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And the atm’s, in eureka every single gas station was packed into the highway at 8pm.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 08:51 |
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I bet the people that installed solar panels without batteries are especially mad about this.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 09:14 |
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I keep a Honda generator and 25 gallons of gasoline on hand.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 11:03 |
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You’re in Eureka? My daughter lives there.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 11:32 |
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Most of my family lives within one of those boxes.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 11:47 |
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Wow, that’s a mess.
![]() 10/09/2019 at 13:01 |
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Small world
![]() 10/09/2019 at 13:21 |
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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.
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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)
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Have you seen “Murder Mountain” on Netflix?
![]() 10/09/2019 at 16:41 |
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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)
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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.