Thanks, I'll be following this.
Oh how nice!
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PG&E may cut power to 30 counties in NorCal for 'severe wind event, Alerts sent out at 4am for tomorrow
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Thanks, I'll be following this.
Oh how nice!
Im in San Jose near Campbell and Saratoga. Thought I was free and clear after nothing happened at noon.
Alas, seems we could atill be part of the shutoffs and the county (Santa Clara) has issued a state of emergency on top of that.
I didnt see the report earlier, but I imagine being a county of roughly 2 million people puts a high number of folks dependent on power at risk, let alone the potential for crime.
Alas, seems we could atill be part of the shutoffs and the county (Santa Clara) has issued a state of emergency on top of that.
I didnt see the report earlier, but I imagine being a county of roughly 2 million people puts a high number of folks dependent on power at risk, let alone the potential for crime.
However on the effected map regions, it looks like only the perimeter would be a part of it, with 90% of the region uneffected. The SJ airport is part of this uneffected region, and yet they said they would be monitoring. I feel like they might turn off more power than expected? Didn't hear anything on the 1:30 statement, though.
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I'm not ready for this at all if it hits me. I have less than a 4th tank of gas, don't have a source of light outside of my cell phone, and all of my food is regrigerated. I'm praying that the initial map of outages they put out is accurate. I'm hoping the fact that I live close to a bunch of important shit, like the SAP center and Airport - will spare me...
2:56 p.m. San Jose declares state of emergency: San Jose officials declared a local state of emergency. Officials from the city's Fire Department and Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services were dispatched to medical care facilities and medical baseline customers who PG&E had not been able to contact. City officials plan to brief the news media at 3:15 p.m.
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I live near the Pruneyard and I haven't received any notifications. Hmm....
Me neither; I found out from my mom getting text messages about the shutdown and then seeing it all over Mercury News and other websites (as well as on local TV news) and hearing from my friends while I was streaming.
Here is a press conference about it https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-jose-preps-for-tonights-blackout/
Seems like its still specific areas planned, but it also sounds like it might be more considering the level of caution they are describing. "Up to 7 days before they restore the power" @_@
Lol San Joaquin I'm still living. Hopefully this is over by Friday? Good night and good luck greater bay area.
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The problem is that once it's off, it'll be off up to 48 hours or more, so it's not a short outage, but a planned extended outage to "check" for damage in all of the area prior to turning it back on.
The people who had their power shut off earlier this morning, are still off, and will be off as long as there continues to be strong winds that move in, and each time it moves in, they'll need to push it back again to recheck everything, rinse and repeat each time within these next few days if the strong winds keep recurring.
It's really just a shit show, so the scare isn't when it's off, but once it's off, it'll just be a long, long period of time.
San Joaquin County here, was worried something would happen since the PG&E Twitter said we would be affected today, but nothing thank goodness.
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The time frame now is 7-10, so you still need to hold out the next hour and a half to be sure...for the time being at least.
Yeah but the map doesn't seem to be working, it just shows nothing
I'm at the old site and it's taking a while to load.
And I have gigabit speed.
Hopefully nothing happens in SoCal. Family is pretty paranoid atm thinking LA County is being affected when the news on the matter is on NorCal. Still getting pretty high winds where I live though.
How the fuck are folks supposed to plan for a week without power in such a short notice?
Yeah, there's definitely that feeling because all the news reports just say California (and some of my coworkers, who've lived here and not in SoCal, also mistakenly thought PG&E serves SoCal, too).
Having lived down there for over 30 years, though, I can remember only once when winds knocked out the power, and they got it back up quick.
I read somewhere that PG&E won't reimburse spoiled food due to the outage because they gave enough warning
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Yep, the north bay has been out since early in the morning, and my surrounding area, Contra Costa, had been out since earlier in the afternoon.
Luckily I'm in a spot where I'm literally surrounded by outages, but not inside it.
Crazy.
It's not, but they are probably covered some how. This whole thing is unbelievable. The wind is 5 mph where I'm at. There's no wind at all... they really jumped the gun on this one.
Let's hope some sort of massive class action or whatever lawsuit gets set on PG&E bc its honestly ludicrous. Some families seem to have gotten less than 24 hours to figure this out. Its 9PM here and still have power, at least.
Thats more time than you will get if a major earthquake knock out your power
Yeahhhh I doubt it. I actually had a class action sitting here on giving payouts for the fires from last year, but you needed "proof" that it effected you somehow :/ I also heard that people that called early yesterday, said they won't be comp'd for food going bad in the fridge and such.
They ain't paying. :/
