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2020-08-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

California heat wave leaves threat of rolling blackouts for millions as Gov. Newsom calls for probe

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Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 09:21|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 California faces one of its largest blackouts in history with more than 1 MILLION expected to lose power across the state amid record-breaking 100F temperatures as wildfires rage

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 09:22|| 2020-08-18 09:22|| Front Page Top

#2 It's also leads the country in # of covid 19. "This is known as 'bad luck'".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-18 09:45|| 2020-08-18 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Rolling Blackouts, also known as rationing.

Still doing the water rationing?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-18 10:57|| 2020-08-18 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Fascist reasoning. Rationing always seem to apply to the little people. Remember the Party-Only stores in Soviet Russia?

Posted by magpie 2020-08-18 11:16|| 2020-08-18 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Still doing the water rationing?

Except for that in use on the fires.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-08-18 11:17|| 2020-08-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Did Newsom specify what kind of probe he wants, like in a Blue Oyster kinda way?

Posted by Raj 2020-08-18 12:08|| 2020-08-18 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Called for Jennifer to probe him.. but good

Posted by Zebulon Phaick7016 2020-08-18 12:11|| 2020-08-18 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 The fires are a real mess.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-18 12:15|| 2020-08-18 12:15|| Front Page Top

#9 And they'll be begging Trump/the Feds for more dough. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Posted by Clem 2020-08-18 12:27|| 2020-08-18 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Seeing as how the Government critters in Sacramento have stifled most utility infrastructure upgrades over the last 40 years because of some endangered amoeba, unsightly towers, excavation permitting or some grievance concocted at the time, I'm surprised that their system fails as little as it does.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-08-18 13:39|| 2020-08-18 13:39|| Front Page Top

#11 In fairness to the incompetent state government, we should acknowledge that this heat is unprecedented since at least last summer.

Posted by SteveS 2020-08-18 14:18|| 2020-08-18 14:18|| Front Page Top

#12 So they aren't serious about Global Warming then?

Posted by gorb 2020-08-18 14:42|| 2020-08-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#13 104 degrees in the shade on my porch just now - rural San Diego.

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-18 15:37|| 2020-08-18 15:37|| Front Page Top

#14 ...been normal, in the shade on the porch, since the first of July in rural New Mexico.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-08-18 16:41|| 2020-08-18 16:41|| Front Page Top

#15 At least San Diego is off the Covid list.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-08-18 17:25|| 2020-08-18 17:25|| Front Page Top

#16 anal probe?

Posted by 746 2020-08-18 17:45|| 2020-08-18 17:45|| Front Page Top

#17 Gavin Gavin is just ticked off that they handed him a note about blackouts AFTER they pulled the switch.
So yeah,the anal probe is on or in...?

Posted by crazyhorse 2020-08-18 18:00|| 2020-08-18 18:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Meanwhile, at the Lake Fire

https://twitter.com/VCFD/status/1294438570480898048

You really have not had the full rural firefighting experience without something like that happening.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-08-18 18:02|| 2020-08-18 18:02|| Front Page Top

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