California’s largest utility cut power to tens of thousands of customers Sunday in a new attempt to mitigate the risk of sparking a fire during dry, windy weather.
California utility PG&E cut power to about 42,000 customers on the heels of extreme fire warnings in three counties. Experts expected wind gusts as high as 50 mph to blow through California’s Sierra Foothills Sunday night. (RELATED: Power Lines, Not Global Warming, Caused California’s Massive Wildfires, Officials Say)
The utility had cut off the power of roughly 17,000 more customers by Monday morning to mitigate the risk of sparking a fire in poor weather conditions.
In past years, the utility has resisted cutting power prematurely in the case of high fire dangers because of the dangers caused by leaving such a large amount of people without power.
“We really view this as a last resort,” PG&E Senior Vice President of Electric Operations Pat Hogan said in March, according to The Sacramento Bee. “It’s one public safety risk vs. another. We’re very cognizant that when we shut off the power, that creates a whole set of safety risks. You potentially impact hospitals, fire stations, police stations, traffic lights go out, garages don’t open.”
Customers were notified ahead of the planned power outage to give residents time to prepare. At least one school canceled school Monday.
PG&E has come under pressure as California has suffered through historic wildfires in recent years. Company officials have blamed the massive fires scorching the state on climate change, but state investigators found that a dozen wildfires in northern California in 2017 “were caused by electric power and distribution lines, conductors and the failure of power poles.”
California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown signed in September legislation criticized as a “PG&E Bailout,” according to The Mercury News. The bill allows the utility to recover money lost from lawsuits over the 2017 wildfires by hiking rates on customers. The bill also relaxes regulations on logging California’s overcrowded forests to remove excess fuel.
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The deepstate Direct Energy Weapons are responsible for the fires in California, it is part of the Agenda 21 program, to force people to the cities, where they are more easily controlled, and easier to round up, detain, and arrest them for transportation to the FEMA camps, selected by the deepstate, where they can be put to death if they don't comply with the agenda set forth by the people that want most of us dead-138,000 boxcars, {they look like big, yellow,enclosed auto carriers, with tiny windows},built by the Gunderson Corporation, and are responsible for this with handcuffs and manacles specifically designed to hold and transport dissidents, and were built in Texas, just for this purpose, along with 30,000 some odd thousand guillotines, also, with new guillotine blades ordered by the Obastard regime, to get rid of 90% of the population- This has been planned since the 40's and 50's- Look it up-The above 'so called' info, is misdirection, and bullcrap- Wake up, people-IF they told the truth about what REALLY happened, they'd be arrested and put to death, too, and they know it- Governor Jerry Brown, of California, needs to be drawn, quartered, and hung, look what he's doing, AND done to the state of California- You don't think he is being manipulated by the PTB while he's doing it?-The truth about all the fires in California and surrounding areas will soon be brought forth-IF, by chance this DOES go down, be ready for it-You are forwarned-
You are so right!
Oh how I would love to sing Linda Ronstadt's 'You're No Good'
at jerry the jesuit' hanging...
My power was 'off' from 12:00-5:00 pm yesterday, and
my mother-in-laws has been off since 1:00 am and still is
at 4:40 pm pst.
I'm sure someone is up to something nefarious.
7:41p.m., you MAY want to stock up on food, water, batteries, things like that, JUST in case- The deep state and the shadow government is behind ALL the inner workings of what their agenda is- After the elections, GOD willing, all this stuff WILL be brought out into the open-A lot of the deepstate cronies are resigning, quitting, running for parts unknown, BUT....They WILL be apprehended as soon as everything comes together, Trump is only one man, but his promises are fulfilled- He does what he says he's going to-The bad ones will pay for what they have done to us for the past 200+ years, they will be charged with treason and crimes against humanity, AND, by the way, I just LOVE Linda Ronstadt-To me, she is still the best vocalist there ever was, IMHO!!!! You are 200% correct as they're NO GOOD, to themselves, or anybody else for that matter-Try to stock up on things, be careful, and take care! I wish you the best, and all good things in the future!
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