Power outage map.
California has More Customers Without Power One Week After Florida’s Hurricane Milton Cut Power to 4M
California’s planned power outages are the new normal
By Katy Grimes, October 21, 2024 5:23 pm
Over the weekend, California utility company Pacific, Gas and Electric shut off power in 12 counties as a countermeasure to ‘wind spikes and fears of wildfires.
This is a rather new “normal” in California. As a native of California, this never happened. The only time power went out was due to powerful winter storms knocking down power lines.
Now, it’s a regular occurrence – not the lines going down, but the power being deliberately shut off. A few years ago we called these “rolling blackouts” when the utility companies didn’t have the available power during summer heat to keep everyone’s air conditioning on. People died.
It’s an actual thing… PG&E calls them “Rotating outages.”
The Associated Press reported:
A California utility shut off power in 12 counties in the northern part of the state as a major “diablo wind” — notorious in autumn for its hot, dry gusts — spiked the risk of power lines sparking a wildfire.
About 13,000 customers woke up without electricity Friday after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off power.
California officials now give wind scary sounding names – “diablo wind” – it helps with the justification of shutting power off for thousands of homes across the state.
However, not just a little ironic, only one week after Florida’s Hurricane Milton caused power failures to 4 million people, Gov. Ron DeSantis reported, “Just a week after Hurricane Milton, all school districts in the state of Florida are back to operations today.”
Last week, Gov. DeSantis announced “Over 4 million Florida power accounts were restored; ‘fastest ever done.'”
Adding insult to injury, Climate Depot posted this eye-popping national map last week graphically depicting the power outages:
We understand why Florida is highlighted after two back-to-back hurricanes.
By the following day, October 18th, Florida no longer showed power outages. But California still did.
No word if California Governor Gavin Newsom is concerned about this… radio silence… and he apparently was out of the state sometime last week.
The state’s big three energy providers, PG&E, San Diego Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison show power outages up and down the state on the California Public Utilities Commission website, where you can check for outages in your area.
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You can look at Cuba and see the future. This past weekend the power was off to the entire country. It makes one wonder if they will shut the power off to all of America. My bet is they will what better way to change the narrative but to literally have everyone in the dark.
A country-wide outage on November 5th would not surprise me…
We get a lot of our electricity from wind and solar – more than any other state.
On a sunny windy day, we should be the f***ing Saudi Arabia of alternative energy: An abundant supply for our own use and enough left over to export and sell.
But instead – because of stupidity and no other reason – we can’t even turn on our own lights on the days when we’re producing the most electricity.
Cigars are rationed in Cuba, because they’re stupid too.
The state should be renamed Cubafornia.
The outages are nothing more than a symptom of power lines that are not being maintained. The deadliest fire in California history, the Camp File, was caused by poorly maintained PG&E lines. 900 safety violations were found during the analysis of the fire. Did PG&E learn their lesson? Nope. Three years later their poorly maintained lines caused the Dixie Fire that burned over 1300 structures. Southern California Edison is no better. The Thomas fire was caused by poorly maintained lines, and burned over 1100 structures. The Woolsey fire was caused by faulty Southern California Edison equipment and killed three people and burned over 1600 structures.
And forget to buy that electric vehicle you won’t be able to charge, then what!
Calizuela.
I have an idea, says non one with a brain, “ the solution is solar panel farms and ocean windmill generated energy for the masses”.
Dumb policies equal dumb outcomes!
California needs to “green” light nuclear, natural gas, hydro and biomass. Energy independence, Yeah Baby!
Remember who runs the state, and who they associate with. We are being conditioned to accept a drastically lowered standard of living, doing without and loss of rights. I predict (depending on the outcome of this election) that fuel rationing and travel restrictions “to combat climate change” are coming next. Welcome to The Great Reset. “You will own nothing…”