During the first wave of outages for winds up North, PG&E shut off Moraga's power. We had very little winds aloft, but a few hours into the outage, some idiot started a fire with a vape (that's the story) which caused a mini evacuation from our neighborhood at 3AM....IN THE DARK.
Today, while Orinda and Lafayette had no power, we did. Extremely windy today!
The reason our outages are backwards appears to be due to the fact we're a tiny branch off a main line that runs well North of here. They can't turn us down unless they turn all those people down as well.
By my guess our chances of fire are pretty were pretty much a guarantee from this whole thing.
Right, but it'd be a fire that PG&E aren't responsible for starting. This is the outcome of threatening to enforce responsibility on PG&E for fires caused by their lines.
Not to say this is the way it had to go, the alternative I see a lot of people proposing is that some level of additional investment in lines maintenance/clearing would have allowed PG&E to safely continue supplying power through the dry season. What I don't see there though is any consideration as to whether that made financial sense for the company.
Given that anything other than a naive view of the world tells us that a private corporation's focus will be it's liabilities and bottom line, it's hard to see (admittedly from the huge distance at which I stand) what other way this could have gone.
Today, while Orinda and Lafayette had no power, we did. Extremely windy today!
The reason our outages are backwards appears to be due to the fact we're a tiny branch off a main line that runs well North of here. They can't turn us down unless they turn all those people down as well.
By my guess our chances of fire are pretty were pretty much a guarantee from this whole thing.
Thanks PG&E.