{"id":49157,"date":"2019-10-25T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49157"},"modified":"2019-10-25T20:01:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T01:01:57","slug":"california-faces-biggest-blackout-ever-as-2-5-million-pge-customers-may-have-no-power-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49157","title":{"rendered":"California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this week we joked that with PG&E now scrambling to enforce intentional blackouts every time there are powerful winds for fears the bankrupt company’s aged infrastructure could cause a new fire, “every time the wind blows California will become Venezuela.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PG&E: 1.2 MILLION POWER CUSTOMERS IN FIRE WEATHER WATCH AREA

Every time the wind blows California will become Venezuela<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turns out it wasn’t a joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, with its stock crashing to a new all time low <\/a>amid speculation it may have been responsible for the latest California inferno, the Kincade Fire<\/a>…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>… PG&E warned it will shut off power again on Saturday to as many as 2.5 million people as violent winds batter the state, in what according to Bloomberg will be “California\u2019s largest intentional blackout ever.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a\u00a0Friday statement<\/a>, approximately 850,000 homes and businesses in Northern California, including much of the San Francisco Bay Area, may be impacted beginning Saturday evening. And with data models indicating\u00a0the weather event could be the most powerful in California in decades, with widespread dry Northeast winds between 45-60 miles per hour (mph) and peak gusts of 60-70 mph in the higher elevations through Monday,\u00a0<\/strong>large swaths of the region could be without power for days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe upcoming wind event has the potential to be one of the strongest in the last several years. It\u2019s also likely to be longer than recent wind events, which have lasted about 12 hours or less,\u201d said Scott Strenfel, Principal Meteorologist with PG&E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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California Faces “Biggest Blackout Ever” As 2.5 Million PG&E Customers May Have No Power For Days Earlier this week we joked that with PG&E now scrambling to enforce intentional blackouts every time there are powerful winds for fears the bankrupt company’s aged infrastructure could cause a new fire, “every time the wind blows California will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[27427,24335,2424,4318],"class_list":["post-49157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-grid-blackout","tag-pge","tag-power-grid-loss","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49159,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions\/49159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}