Pacific Gas and Electric Company is forecasting another wind event that could mean a second major electrical shutoff this week, lasting Tuesday night through Thursday morning.
The announcement comes with a large portion of Northern California already trying to ride out an electrical power shutoff that started Saturday night and is expected to last until today.
The new event could extend to portions of 32 counties in the PG&E service area, covering the Northern and Southern Sierra, North Bay, Bay Area and Santa Cruz mountains, North Coast and Kern County.
“For those customers able to have their power restored between events, PG&E urges them to use the opportunity to charge any medical equipment, phones and other electronic devices and restock emergency kits,” the utility said in a news release.
“Some customers may continue to be impacted by the PSPS event, while others may experience power outages due to weather damage to the electric system.”
Counties that fall under the new PSPS area include, Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Kern, Lake, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, Yolo, and Yuba.
“The dry, windy weather pattern is expected to reach from the northern portions of PG&E’s service territory and down through the Sacramento Valley, before spreading into the central areas of the state, including the Bay Area,” the utility said.
PG&E said it will make every effort to restore power to as many customers who lost service during the current shutoff, but warned that “some customers who are currently out of power may remain out throughout the duration of the next potential PSPS event.”
It advised customers that do have power restored between events “to use the opportunity to charge any medical equipment, phones and other electronic devices and restock emergency kits.”
The utility will again provide Community Resource Centers in outage areas.
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With all their shut offs they are still burning down the state.
PG&E stock price dropped to $3.55 per share this morning.
It’s now $4.22 as of 9:17 AM.
Stock now sitting at $4.08 down 18.5 percent on the day and the stock price change for one year, down 91.3%
Closed out trading day down $1.20, another 24 percent, to $3.80.
Gavin says that these outages, and wildfires will be the “New Norm” for the next 10 years, while PG&E FINALLY upgrades all their equipment…The reason that PG&E’s equipment has been allowed to get so bad, is that the utility cares more for it’s pensioners, and stockholders, than they do their customers….Watch the exodus of people and businesses from California….This state, because of politics and greed, is ruined…Time to go…
Pretty sure that we didn’t have these sudden out of nowhere 60mph wind gusts.
Everyone knows that it’s windy on San Marco blvd in Baypoint, but it’s not the norm everywhere else.
My brother and his wife who now live in upstate New York used to always rant and rave yo me about how California is a great example of how great a state can be when controlled by Democrats. I am not so sure about that! Doesn’t seem that great to me.
Just a little food for thought:
Is Pacific Gas and Electric company the blame for fires in California? Many will say yes. It is easy to target the biggest companies, and to get public support behind roasting them in the court of public opinion. “Pack mentality” is a term I learned years ago. A useful tool.
In March 2017, Lafayette and PG&E signed an agreement to remove 272 trees, including those along the Lafayette-Moraga Regional Trail and the Lafayette Reservoir Rim Trail. In June 2017, Save Lafayette Trees sued, seeking to rescind the agreement. Save Lafayette Trees contended that cutting down trees would not improve public safety and said the city did not evaluate the environmental impact of removing the trees.
From The sierra club, regarding plans by PG&E to trim brush and trees: “Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) is planning to clear cut wide swaths of trees surrounding power lines in an aggressive program that claims to address wildfire hazards as a part of their Fire Safety Zone work.” Sierra Club filed a lawsuit to stop the brush and tree removal.
“PG&E is not adequately informing residents of their right to refuse to allow the removal or cutting of vegetation. PG&E is not a regulatory agency and their decisions do not carry the force of law,” Macy wrote in a lengthy email to county supervisors dated Sept. 14. That email also thanked 5th District Supervisor Bruce McPherson for his efforts “to keep PG&E from decimating the roadsides of the Santa Cruz Mountains.”
Santa Cruz County leaders have requested a halt to PG&E’s tree cutting outside city limits, pending a comprehensive study that assesses the combined scope of the removal of multiple trees from both public and private property on its side. Matt Johnston, a Santa Cruz County planner, says this group of informed neighbors has brought the issue to the attention of local officials.
Santa Cruz County land, however, might be a different story. PG&E needs a permit from the county before it can do enhanced vegetation work on land in the county’s right-of-way — for example, land next to county-owned roads and property, Brown said. He said the county can put conditions on the permit to make sure the PG&E work is done in the most environmentally friendly way possible.
The parallel timeline, of reduced logging, reduced livestock grazing, and the increase in California friendly environmental lawsuits, show how fire activity in this state has increased proportionally to the limitations placed upon private Ag and private enterprises.
We don’t have a “Climate Change” crisis. We have a “Man Made Crisis”.
When the insanity of saving the environment, means burning it to ashes to prove a political point, we have lost sanity.
Our current governor, is a replica of former governors of this state, and is the man holding the match for tomorrow’s fires: “Gov. Gavin Newsom issued another scathing rebuke of the mass blackouts roiling California on Thursday, telling the state’s three major investor-owned electric utilities that they have not worked well enough with the government as they cut power to too many people for too long.” Progressive government officials cause the problem, then try to tax,and regulate, a way out of the problem they created. It is always somebody else’s fault.
[http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_31f17384-d25a-11e8-959c-276939161f8b.html](http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_31f17384-d25a-11e8-959c-276939161f8b.html)
Body bag approach to forestry management.
Be green, even if kills people.
Here’s what happens when government and Courts are out of the equation and common sense prevails.
‘ Biggest wildfire in Arizona history couldn’t burn Fort Apache Reservation ‘
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-wildfires/2017/07/12/biggest-wildfire-arizona-history-couldnt-burn-fort-apache-reservation/437892001/
‘ Experts: Managing tribal forest helped stop Wallow Fire at reservation ‘
http://cronkitenewsonline.com/2011/12/experts-decades-of-logging-treatments-helped-stop-wallow-fire-at-reservation/
Yes, PG&E has been challenged even when trees pose a threat to safety. PG&E wanted to remove a tree on my property to monitor a transmission gas line and I complied. The city challenged PG&E at first and eventually allowed tree cutting. I look at this as a safety issue and believe Calif agencies have to work together to maintain forests by getting rid of dead trees/brush/fuel to prevent horrific fires.
Nothing can be done now but clean up. But why is PGE ran by lawyers vs engineers that would know what needs to be done to keep lines and the communities safe. What happened to the billions that sat there for repairs? I know several leaders and possible politicians (?) received it vs the repairs being made.
Nothing can be done now but clean up. But why is PGE ran by lawyers vs engineers that would know what needs to be done to keep lines and the communities safe. What happened to the billions that sat there for repairs? I know several leaders and possible politicians (?) received it vs the repairs being made.
No one is saying they don’t believe in climate change but again that is caused by us, humans.
@ Michelle
not believing climate change is caused by humans is being a Climate Change Denier in my book.
You have not lived her long have you! Never heard of “Indian Summer”?
We always have off shore this time of year. The Oakland Hills, Camp and Creek fires all occurred in October.
BTW “Settled Science” is IGNORENCE Science is never “Settled” it’s Dynamic and always changing, as is the evidence always being evaluated.
@mrdioji
So what are you trying to say? That humans have nothing to do with climate change? I’m confused to what you are trying to say to me. Climate is always changing but it has been sped up by human kind taking for granted their resources and not allowing nature to be nature such as not allowing animals to graze and take care of some of this over growth and having them locked in small confined spaces. You directed a comment at me and must not have read what I wrote.
Climate change is not “caused” by humans.
To believe that man has a greater impact than the sun and the rest of the universe tells me that someone has an overinflated opinion f themselves.
And science is NEVER “settled.”
The only ones who believe that are the non-scientists or those who depend on grants for survival – in wither wirds, whores.
Hey Fred, you are wrong.
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