Okay, the authorities are trying to avoid it but it is becoming increasingly obvious what happened.
Mercury News: For the better part of a decade, California’s utilities have helped to
stall the state’s effort to map where their power lines present the
highest risk for wildfires, an initiative that critics say could have
forced PG&E to strengthen power poles and bolster maintenance
efforts before this month’s deadly North Bay fires.
For the better part of a decade, California’s utilities have helped to
stall the state’s effort to map where their power lines present the
highest risk for wildfires, an initiative that critics say could have
forced PG&E to strengthen power poles and bolster maintenance
efforts before this month’s deadly North Bay fires.
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So rates will go down, the dividend will be slashed and executives jailed. Right?
You all wish.
ReplyDeleteLDB a mesage for you on prior thread.
My pesent house is CBS on the first floor, with a facing of decoration bricks over some of the blocks. This is done to repel termites, as well as all the other things.
Cbs==concrete block stucco.
ReplyDeleteHey, they'll be forced now.
ReplyDeleteSue them for all the fire cost and the deaths incurred. I have no idea why they are allowed to have above ground services lines. Horizontal drilling is not a new idea. High tension lines still will have to be above ground.
ReplyDeleteWe should have underground line here too. It's too expensive, we are told
ReplyDeleteAll our neighborhood utilities are buried. All our wires come up to the neighborhood on poles. Through the flammable scrub lands. California smart.
ReplyDeleteThe article suggests that the existing poles were not compliant with current regulations, never mind whatever new regs they develop whenever in the future.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like PG&E ratepayers are about to take another one in the shorts.
AH hah. Couldn't they fix them gradually??
DeleteWas PG&E where Dilbert worked?
DeleteSDG&E (Sempra) caused the San Diego fires 10 years ago. That was around the time of the Heidi DeJong Barsuglia lobbyist scandal and the Sempra executive retreat palace scandal.
ReplyDeleteSSDD.
Stronger conCrete poles here in Florida.
DeleteConcrete isn't good in a hot fire
DeleteI impulsively grabbed up a meat space WSJ. I forgot what the were like. Specifically wage increases are bad becausee they increased inflation, which otherwise would cause inflation. Other kinds are ok I guess. I think what they done like is any transfer of power downward is very very bad.
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ReplyDeleteOK how about above ground cable conduits instead of power poles, like a pipe line? Under ground in town, conduits in the forest etc.
ReplyDeleteOk with Me, but no on listens to me.
ReplyDeleteI may not understand you some times but I do listen. :)
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Delete>OK how about above ground cable conduits instead of power poles, like a pipe line?
ReplyDeleteTeenagers would dig them up, get electrocuted, and parents would sue.
Yup... Or thieves would steal the copper and aluminum
DeleteNobody should ever do anything. All teenagers should be tempted by something fatal so we don't have to invest any more in them,but before this we should n tell them about Darwin.
DeleteI thought you can't take it with you.
ReplyDeleteCateract surgery tomorrow. Blegh.
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ReplyDeleteStupid teenagers and thieves exists today. One genius in Denver toasted himself trying to steel wire at a sub station. The human fuse! What's to stop them from climbing a power pole?
ReplyDelete>Nobody should ever do anything. All teenagers should be tempted by something fatal so we don't have to invest any more in them,but before this we should n tell them about Darwin.
ReplyDeleteNo, you just have to realize, in the public sphere, everything is limited by the lowest common denominator.
Hence litter, graffiti, property destruction, commons destruction, etc.
>What's to stop them from climbing a power pole?
ReplyDeleteNothing really. It's just more difficult.
May need climbing gear.
A higher threshold.
TOO lazy.
ReplyDeleteThe Narrative is blaming PG&E. I wonder what financial incentive PG&E had to defy regulators and risk barbecuing customers? Any inaction on PG&Es part might be due to the fact that California would only tighten requirements the following year like they do for agriculture and health care. Were it me, I'd start retrofitting when California's regulations and legislation stabilized. Also, at least where I live and was forced to evacuate, we experienced wind speeds that come along only a couple of times a century. Designing and testing to extremely rare weather events is extremely costly and difficult. The fire in our area took the same path it took half a century earlier, so why did we rebuild there? And arson hasn't been ruled out. The cause of these fires is under investigation.
ReplyDeleteUp here, the lawyers are advertising a lawsuit against PG&E on FM radio. Needless to say, I have very little respect for that profession.
They will climb anything. Especially with some liquid brains or chemical enhancements. Local kid a few years ago fell of a water tower in a near by town.
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ReplyDeleteTeenage boys should be kept on an extremedy tight leash. I suggest. Making your house the one where all the kids congregate,ostly they spent the night here. Generous good food helps. OnlY yelling at them a tiny bit. Every once in a while they'd go to someone else's house and then they'd come back the next weekend, with complaints. This is an invisible leash!
Not just boys, a girl fell off the water tower.
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ReplyDeleteDilbert priceless this morning
Boy am I thirsty, no waterm until after operation.
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ReplyDeleteGood luck Liz.
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