Anonymous
Source: City of Goleta
Southern California Edison (SCE) has recently developed a plan to shut off power when high risk weather could start a wildfire. The Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) could lead to multi-day power outages in Goleta during periods of extremely hot, dry, and/or windy weather. A PSPS outage will last as long as the potentially dangerous weather conditions exist, plus the amount of time it takes for power company workers to inspect and repair their equipment in the affected area(s). Residents need to prepare for a power outage that could last 3-5 days.
The City has put together tips on how to prepare for a multi-day power outage including knowing how to manually open your automatic garage door and having a battery-operated radio. Click here to learn more.
It is also recommended to register for emergency alerts from the Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management (SBCOEM) at www.ReadySBC.org. To receive emergency information from the City of Goleta, go to https://tinyurl.com/goletaemergency, text Goleta Emergency to 468311, or call 961-7508.
Learn more about Public Safety Power Shutoffs on the SCE website.
The Hospitals and other critical buildings have their own generators. County jail has access to solar power. If you spent the money to add solar to your house, you are also good. Easy to criticize the power companies but really the fault lies with the people who decided to build flammable structures in the wildfire interface areas. And no one wants to pay the rates that would be needed to raise the $$$Billions required to bury the power lines underground in the wildfire areas. And since power companies are monopolies, we will either pay during emergencies, or in higher rates, to fix this problem. No other choice.
PITMIX – so you are blaming homeowners now, instead of the power company for shutting off power? Care to elaborate that causal leap?
A lot of privately owned businesses get “special treatment” in the form of subsidies, incentives, tax deferments etc. How else do companies earning billions of dollars end up with tax obligations of next to nothing? You must be ignoring the fact that corporate welfare is alive and well in America today.
The law of unintended consequences will be severe. No AC for vulnerable groups such as senior citizens, +1000s without refrigeration, those with electric stoves will be unable to cook, no lighting at night, no internet for most, and who knows how many will be furloughed from work. Unrest may start as people will have nothing to do in their dark homes. We’ll be begging for the power to come back on in less than 24 hrs.
Goleta Cottage Hospital, too? UCSB? Airport? Traffic lights? 911? Water Treatment Plant?
Hope they will pay for lost groceries…
Usually the pregnancy rates go up during blackouts, not the incidences of riots. People know how to occupy themselves in a non-violent way. But if you like your image of dytopia, you can keep your image of dystopia.
EGGS, why can’t you go out to your panel and flip the switch to disconnect your solar system from the grid to power your own appliances? Or are you saying that the inverter will stop working if the grid is dead? Your Tesla or Leaf can also provide storage if you can’t afford the battery.
Some people believe in civilization, and some people don’t.
It is interesting that electricity is becoming unreliable at a time BEFORE the elimination of the gas distribution network. The Green Raw Deal folks want all Californians in electric homes within a decade with gas lines only feeding industry and huge electric grid generators. Given electric line resistance losses, this plan will release more CO2 not less. Yes, there will be reduced risk of fire during disasters, but I like to cook and heat with gas. We have to us LP tanks here on the farm, and I suppose folks will be free to convert their stoves to tanked propane.
glad I don’t rely on a prius
Blackout in NYC today, 42 years to the day of the 1977 blackout. What a coincidence. Let’s see if they will be more civilized this time which led to widespread looting and rioting – with 1,616 stores damaged and fire crews responding to 1,037 blazes.