PG&E power shutdown begins in California amid threat of 'explosive' wildfires, affecting millions

I guess if you don’t mind living in a reclaimed swamp and sweating like a pig 3/4 of the year, Florida is great. Nothing like taking a shower, putting on a nice clean shirt and having it stick to you before you even get to the car. As for me, I’ll take a breezy 72 degrees with 10% humidity.

 

High desert is more like 104 degrees with smog and a chance of meth head.

 

Check out the 10 day weather for Valyermo Ca. 70s across the board crystal clear air and the only meth heads are down in the flats wearing MAGA hats and riding around with Trump flags waving from their crappy pick ups. Toothless, tattooed, white supremicist meth heads are a big Trump voting bloc here.

 

Um.... the Bell Curve.... You must be a moderate. Liberal ideology forbids ANY mention of it, especially with regards to groups of people. The Bell Curve does not predict political ideology and never has. It does predict incarceration rate, divorce rate, out of wedlock birth rate, high school dropout rate, poverty rate, and unemployment rate.

If you support Trump and see the left as an existential threat, your support of Trump has a hell of lot more to do with your innate tribalism than your intellect. Leftists who believe the world is going to end in 10 years, that white people are evil, that countries can survive with open borders, that gender is fluid and not biological, that shaman magic is as valid as the scientific method, that there is gender pay gap, that diverse thought must be censored, that twitter mobbing is a moral good, etc.... are not stupid, they are just tribal. They are using these concepts to utterly demolish and eradicate Western Secular Liberalism (in the Jeffersonian sense) to be replaced with God only knows what. The concepts coming from the left lately are so divorced from reality and sanity (to me) that I have lost the ability to communicate with them. I may not know exactly what I want for America but I sure as hell know that I want not a single part of their vision imposed on America..... not a scrap of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

 

Electric rates must go up in California so PG&E can properly maintain infrastructure and pay the tort awards and thus keep the juice on.

 

Any prolonged electrical outage will likely cause social disorder. Therefore, impacted liberals who don't own firearms may wish to consider acquiring a gun or two. Just saying.

 

Well said.

 

And a lot of brown & white flowers, genus Toiletus species papyrus, to decorate the landscape.

 

And those impacted liberals are going to find out that there is a 10 day waiting period, and they need a background check each time they buy ammo.

 

I know how you feel. Your comment sums up how I feel about the Australian liberals that post in this forum.

 

I have never met many of those crazy, so called leftists and when I run across one I just chuckle and politely walk away and make an effort to avoid them. I know a lot of real conservatives, moderates and liberals and most of them think Trump is an embarrassment to our country and what it stands for. That includes several life long Republican conservatives who supported Johnson/Weld last election cycle as I did.

 

And no electricity means no NICS check.

 

Well, I am 100% American born in Pittsburgh Pa. and have lived in the great city of Los Angeles California since 1964. I love my home town and my home state. There is no place on earth I’d rather be and if there was, I’d get off my ass and go there instead of whining about it.

 

I have a 150hp propane generator and a full 250 gallon tank designated for it. If they shut off my power, I will flip a switch and go on with my life while all those whiny Trumpers cry about liberals causing their power to go down.

 

100KW system? Well, you're fully prepared for grid down for a good while.

 

Hopefully the meth heads don't gravitate towards the noise of a generator running.

Seems to happen.

 

I have Joshua’s, Junipers, Creosote bushes and an array of multicolored wildflowers flowers along with some natural piñon trees and some Doug fir, cottonwood and elm trees that were planted 50 years ago decorating my landscape and all of my neighbors have pretty much the same setup. I can water them easily because I have a well that I can pump 9 gallons a minute from and 2 water tanks.

Your description is highly inaccurate. The places you are referring to are usually inhabited by squatters with MAGA hats and Trump signs by white nationalist tattooed meth heads. They all love Trump.

 

Before they got within 200 yard of my place my dogs would be on the fence going nuts and I could sit up on my balcony with a cold beer and pick them off as soon as they breached the fence. Those Meth heads are easy to spot because they all wear those bright red MAGA hats.

 

Yes the problem is PGE taking money meant for safety and using it to pay executive bonuses.

 

Good luck not going to jail for "picking off" someone at your fence.

The Kamala Harris types will smile as they convict.

 

Seriously, less then 3k and unless the gas lines rupture you never have to worry about outages again!

 

Yup, you don't want a gathering of people at your house when SHTF.

We have a 300 watt generator for SHTF times. Small enough to bug out with. Very quiet, silent in the panel sound box I made. It will run a 16 liter frig via lithium, a tremendous luxury in SHTF. We have a large, loud generator for hurricanes where personal risk is not so high.

I have nothing against killing intruders wanting to steal your water and food, but I prefer not to if possible. Kill to survive, and stealth keeps you alive.

 

Usually a couple wizzed over the MAGA hats will do the trick.

 

Thats the new thing is putting large mufflers into the generators and finding other ways to keep it quiet.

One of the lessons learned from southern hurricanes is when everything is dark and quiet (no power), people gravitate towards the noise of a generator, and any lights that might be visible.

 

With the amount of tax that state bleeds it's tax payers out of there should be people in the tree's just maintaining what should have been done a decade ago!