Massive California power outages may begin early Wednesday

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California's third fire-safety power blackout could be the biggest one yet.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...fety-power-blackout-could-be-biggest-n1071746.


Richard

 

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A transmission line broke near where a massive fire
ignited in California, utility says.


https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/25/weather/california-fires-kincade-friday/


Richard

 

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California utility PG&E could cut power to 850,000 households over 'historic wind event'


https://www.foxnews.com/us/pge-coul...r-48-hours-over-potential-historic-wind-event


Richard

 

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Northern California braces for ferocious winds and more power outages that may affect I million.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...fect-millions-northern-california/2468056001/


Richard

 

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PG&E will cut power to 940,000 as California wildfires rage: 'Most serious weather situation in recent memory'


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/26/pge...thern-california-to-reduce-wildfire-risk.html.


Richard

 

[Icc5]

Lived in California my entire life. Only had to deal with a large earthquake once which caused some chimney damage and pulled my pool cover track up in areas. Never been near a mud slide. Don't like the forest fires and closest one to me stopped about 10 miles away. Under prop 13 so pay less then $3,000 in property tax on our 3 million dollar home. Way to many homeless but not sure how we compare with other states with our population and considering I'm in the heart of Silicon Valley I'm guessing it has to do with many that don't qualify for a job that pays $70,000-$200,000 or more a year. Same reasoning for high property values which would come down if so many didn't want to live here with our great weather,short driving distance to the mountains or the ocean.
I also haven't had to deal with flooding,hurricanes,tornadoes, or weather that changes each hour.
Love visiting other states but have never found anywhere else I'd want to live.
Bart

 

[Fredflintstone]

Lived in California my entire life. Only had to deal with a large earthquake once which caused some chimney damage and pulled my pool cover track up in areas. Never been near a mud slide. Don't like the forest fires and closest one to me stopped about 10 miles away. Under prop 13 so pay less then $3,000 in property tax on our 3 million dollar home. Way to many homeless but not sure how we compare with other states with our population and considering I'm in the heart of Silicon Valley I'm guessing it has to do with many that don't qualify for a job that pays $70,000-$200,000 or more a year. Same reasoning for high property values which would come down if so many didn't want to live here with our great weather,short driving distance to the mountains or the ocean.
I also haven't had to deal with flooding,hurricanes,tornadoes, or weather that changes each hour.
Love visiting other states but have never found anywhere else I'd want to live.
Bart

3 million dollars...wow...and that’s probably average price in your area. You could sell, retire to Phoenix with a bigger place for 10 percent of what your place is worth...but as you said, you are living the life there so $$$ don’t matter.


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[CalGalTraveler]

We live in the inland SF Bay Area. So far so good. We have not lost power during any of these blackouts to date. It was not windy here although we smelled smoke from Sonoma a few days ago.

Not like last year's "nuclear winter" with smoke from the Camp Fire where we didn't see the sun for days and had to wear masks outside.

The Bay Area has many different micro-climates. It can be 50 degrees, windy and foggy on the coast and 90 degrees and sunny 20 miles inland.

 

[Luanne]

I was born and raised in southern California, moved to northern California in 1981 and lived there until we moved to New Mexico in 2012. We never experienced any of the extreme conditions that are occurring now. We moved out of state for various reasons, none were because we didn't love California. Our older dd still lives there, in the Silicon Valley. So far they have not been personally impacted by the outages, but she is thinking that could happen at any time. One of my oldest friends lives in Grass Valley, which is in the Sierra foothills. I just got a note from her. They have had outages for up to 8 days and expect more. She and her husband are seriously considering moving out of California.

 

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'You can't fight this': California wildfires force evacuation in Sonoma county.


https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news...ia-wildfires-latest-thousands-evacuations-pge.


Richard

 

[klpca]

I was born and raised in southern California, moved to northern California in 1981 and lived there until we moved to New Mexico in 2012. We never experienced any of the extreme conditions that are occurring now. We moved out of state for various reasons, none were because we didn't love California. Our older dd still lives there, in the Silicon Valley. So far they have not been personally impacted by the outages, but she is thinking that could happen at any time. One of my oldest friends lives in Grass Valley, which is in the Sierra foothills. I just got a note from her. They have had outages for up to 8 days and expect more. She and her husband are seriously considering moving out of California.

I have lived here my whole life and I was just thinking about it this morning. Something has drastically changed. The fires that we are seeing now are nothing like when I was younger. They were smaller and far less frequent. And more of a southern CA thing. Now they are frequently in NorCal and very large. It's ridiculous.

 

[cyntravel]

Praying for your safety.

 

[Luanne]

I have lived here my whole life and I was just thinking about it this morning. Something has drastically changed. The fires that we are seeing now are nothing like when I was younger. They were smaller and far less frequent. And more of a southern CA thing. Now they are frequently in NorCal and very large. It's ridiculous.

And as I've mentioned before, my bff lost everything in the Paradise Camp Fire. She relocated to Florida where her older dd and family live. Had just gotten settled there when she was evacuated (again) for Hurricane Dorian. Luckily she had no damage.

 

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Thousands ordered to flee fast-moving Los Angeles wildfire.


https://m.investing.com/news/stock-...-flee-fastmoving-los-angeles-wildfire-2005601.


Richard

 

[presley]

I'm really anxious to hear the reasons for all of these current fires. I know lots of times it's been a power line, but it also seems, at least here in southern California, that some deranged person decided to start one - oftentimes a firefighter.

 

[SmithOp]

I'm really anxious to hear the reasons for all of these current fires. I know lots of times it's been a power line, but it also seems, at least here in southern California, that some deranged person decided to start one - oftentimes a firefighter.

Sounds likely in the case of the getty fire, looks like it started next to the 405 and winds blew it southwest over the hills.


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[clifffaith]

My back, which was so cooperative two weeks ago in Carlsbad, came roaring back with pain levels that make me want to get from point A to point B with as few steps as possible. A migraine started during the night, and when the radio alarm went off with freeway closures due to fire we decided to put off our trip to Diàmond Resorts San Luis Bay in Avila beach. Figured no sense trying to get around the fires to go on vacation when people are trying to get to work, school (then they cancelled classes at UCLA) and evacuation centers. We may go up tomorrow (was a five day reservation), or dig the trove of super balls out and stay home for Halloween. I put the reser up for free on the Diamond US Facebook, but so far no takers.

 

[Passepartout]

My heart goes out to those affected. Please listen to warnings and obey local authorities. They have your welfare at heart and are trying to minimize damage.

We'll be bracing for an influx of new residents, but hey, the wind blows and we have fires here too.

Take care!

Jim

 

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PG&E agrees to pay California wildfire victims $13.5 billion in damages.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...fornia-wildfire-victims-13-5-billion-n1097556.


Richard