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2019-10-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

More Californians Forced To Run Extension Cords To Neighboring States

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-10-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Shitshow Part 160

Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 00:11|| 2019-10-31 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Bee = more real than reality

NYT, WaPo, CNN et al. = Wonderland, Fantasia, Le Royaume du Shitshow

Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 01:00|| 2019-10-31 01:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Unfortunately, the increased power demand caused the power grids in Arizona and Nevada to get knocked out, so they had to run extension cords over to New Mexico and Utah, respectively.

Unfortunately, they figured out Texas has plenty power. Now we can't them to leave Grumble.

Posted by Pancho Flerens6518 2019-10-31 01:10|| 2019-10-31 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they could wire up all the ecstasy-trippers at Burning Man?

Posted by Lex 2019-10-31 01:13|| 2019-10-31 01:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ^No thank you. This is the off season.

Posted by Secret Master 2019-10-31 01:40|| 2019-10-31 01:40|| Front Page Top

#6 The Green's wonderful utopia.

Posted by 3dc 2019-10-31 07:02|| 2019-10-31 07:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Buy Generac stock.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-10-31 09:11|| 2019-10-31 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm going to sign the petition to recall Newsom. I identify as an undocumented Californian.

Posted by Matt 2019-10-31 11:12|| 2019-10-31 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 How about putting generators on those stationary bikes at fitness spas? I know a thing or two about fitness ~~bras~~ spas.

Posted by jpal 2019-10-31 11:18|| 2019-10-31 11:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I would think gyms could take themselves off of the grid in that way, but they aren't gonna help their neighbors let alone the state very much.

CA should have pushed for solar power on every rooftop long ago. We have the sun, and a typical roof could provide enough power for the house beneath. You just need batteries or wind power to get your through the night.

Instead they pushed for massive solar farms because you have to keep the union workers of PG&E employed.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-10-31 11:45|| 2019-10-31 11:45|| Front Page Top

#11 And then there's this

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-10-31 12:12|| 2019-10-31 12:12|| Front Page Top

#12 This might be funny if it wasn't at least half true. Individual Californians have no need to run their extension cords to neighboring states because PG&E and SoCalEdison do it for them. A great deal of California's energy comes from out of state. I remember a few years back when a worker at an Arizona power plant flipped the wrong switch and the result was a power outage all over southern California. I got to leave work early that day, after shutting down all the computers in the computer room before the battery backup ran out of juice.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-10-31 14:54|| 2019-10-31 14:54|| Front Page Top

#13 How about putting generators on those stationary bikes at fitness spas?

That’s how the Dutch family that hid my mother during the war powered their radio. Except for the fitness spa part, of course.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-10-31 14:58|| 2019-10-31 14:58|| Front Page Top

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