PG&E issues unprecedented power shut-off watch for much of Northern California

[Auggie]

(REPOST) https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142377803

Shut-off watches were issued for seven of the nine Bay Area counties — all but San Francisco and Marin — along with the North Coast, northern parts of the Central Valley and the northern and central Sierra and foothills. An elevated risk of a power shut-off also exists Wednesday and Thursday in parts of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Merced, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Stanislaus counties.

Oct 9 and 10th -- high temps and Diablo winds.

Be paired for the worst, I guess.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Shades of Enron??

[still_one]

2. Not in this case because of the real threat of fire, and what happened a few months ago in

Northern and Southern California

Enron was pure price fixing to create an artificial shortage. This has to do with preventing a potential fire disaster

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Thanks for the info.

[still_one]

7. While anywhere in Northern California can be impacted, the probability is that it will

be mostly in the high risk areas.

People can go to the PGE site, put their address in, and see how likely it is they will be impacted.

I sure don't know the answer to this, but it begs the question should people be allowed to build in areas that are fire zones? Of course that would open a whole bag of worms. What about hurricane zones, earthquake zones, tornado zones, etc.

Unlike some natural disasters that are weather or geological related, fire can be natural or caused by arson/manmade.

https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/psps-service-impact-map.page

https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster/wildfires/public-safety-event.page?WT.pgeac=GlobalHeader-PSPS-Oct19

[regnaD kciN]

3. This has nothing to do with an Enron-style collapse...

What’s happening here is that conditions are extremely high for wildfires (high temperatures and strong winds), and PG&E are going to shut off power to those areas, lest downed wires start a major fire for which they’d be liable, as happened last year.

[Auggie]

4. Two years -- 2017 and 2018

I'll live with outages provided upgrades are underway -- better tech and burying lines in problem areas.

[Farmer-Rick]

6. Thanks for the info.