Miloch...and 940,000 others...will be without electricity from 4PM Pacific today until evening on Monday.

....that means no posts from me.

PG&E is turning off the power!...to prevent yet more fires from fallen power
lines.

The lawsuits from this power stoppage will just be added to the ones already
filed against the utility from the last power outage/fires from two years
ago...my sister almost lost her house to that one! She'd already lost her house
in yet an earlier fire...the Middletown fire.

"A severe wind event beginning Saturday night will lead Pacific Gas and Electric
to turn off power to nearly 400,000 Bay Area customers in eight counties to
reduce the risk of wind-damaged equipment sparking wildfires. It was originally
estimated that 850,000 customers would be impacted in the greater Northern
California area, but that estimate rose to 940,000 Saturday morning.

"PG&E said Saturday that power outages would occur in in Alameda, Contra Costa,
Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara Solano and Sonoma counties beginning at
around 4 p.m.


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Be safe!

On 26 Oct 2019 14:24:14 -0700, Miloch
wrote:

...that means no posts from me.

PG&E is turning off the power!...to prevent yet more fires from fallen power
lines.

The lawsuits from this power stoppage will just be added to the ones already
filed against the utility from the last power outage/fires from two years
ago...my sister almost lost her house to that one! She'd already lost her house
in yet an earlier fire...the Middletown fire.

"A severe wind event beginning Saturday night will lead Pacific Gas and Electric
to turn off power to nearly 400,000 Bay Area customers in eight counties to
reduce the risk of wind-damaged equipment sparking wildfires. It was originally
estimated that 850,000 customers would be impacted in the greater Northern
California area, but that estimate rose to 940,000 Saturday morning.

"PG&E said Saturday that power outages would occur in in Alameda, Contra Costa,
Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara Solano and Sonoma counties beginning at
around 4 p.m.


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On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:05:26 -0500, Flatlander
wrote:

Be safe!

Second that!

On 26 Oct 2019 14:24:14 -0700, Miloch
wrote:

...that means no posts from me.

PG&E is turning off the power!...to prevent yet more fires from fallen power
lines.

The lawsuits from this power stoppage will just be added to the ones already
filed against the utility from the last power outage/fires from two years
ago...my sister almost lost her house to that one! She'd already lost her house
in yet an earlier fire...the Middletown fire.

"A severe wind event beginning Saturday night will lead Pacific Gas and Electric
to turn off power to nearly 400,000 Bay Area customers in eight counties to
reduce the risk of wind-damaged equipment sparking wildfires. It was originally
estimated that 850,000 customers would be impacted in the greater Northern
California area, but that estimate rose to 940,000 Saturday morning.

"PG&E said Saturday that power outages would occur in in Alameda, Contra Costa,
Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara Solano and Sonoma counties beginning at
around 4 p.m.


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Miloch wrote in
:

...that means no posts from me.

PG&E is turning off the power!...to prevent yet more fires from fallen
power lines.

The lawsuits from this power stoppage will just be added to the ones
already filed against the utility from the last power outage/fires
from two years ago...my sister almost lost her house to that one!
She'd already lost her house in yet an earlier fire...the Middletown
fire.

"A severe wind event beginning Saturday night will lead Pacific Gas
and Electric to turn off power to nearly 400,000 Bay Area customers in
eight counties to reduce the risk of wind-damaged equipment sparking
wildfires. It was originally estimated that 850,000 customers would be
impacted in the greater Northern California area, but that estimate
rose to 940,000 Saturday morning.

"PG&E said Saturday that power outages would occur in in Alameda,
Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Clara Solano and Sonoma
counties beginning at around 4 p.m.


*



They can't design power lines that
won't fall down in high winds? It doesn't
seem like that complicated a technology.

On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 08:04:20 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

They can't design power lines that
won't fall down in high winds? It doesn't
seem like that complicated a technology.

They have outlawed any and all tree trimming to protect power lines or anything
else. Scrub brush is more important than human lives. Trees and branches get
blown onto power lines, causing fires and burning thousands more trees than
would get trimmed.

Only in California can you get fined for trimming a tree that blocks visibility
at an intersection, or be fined for having a tree that blocks visibility at an
intersection, or fined for removing said tree if it dies, or be fined for
failing to remove a dead tree.

--
Futility Man