PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has created a new disaster

Re:PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has create... by jartelt on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:33AM (#21398845)

I imagine people would like PG&E to have a functioning website that shows where power is going to be turned off, to have a more predictable warning system so people can have more than a few hours notice of impending blackouts, to have better managed community centers so people can access essential resources during blackouts, etc.

This is relatively basic stuff that a large corporation should be able to figure out with a ~year of notice. Instead there first few blackouts have been very poorly managed despite the fact that PG&E knew this was coming.

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Re:PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has create... by dehrmann on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#21398912)

> more than a few hours notice of impending blackouts

I'm not sure if weather is predicable enough to do this in the micro sense. Obviously, warning that Sept-Nov might have blackouts is easy.

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Re:PG&E turning off power to protect against fire has create... by trentlott on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @12:10PM (#21399253)

Hmm, but we know weather like two weeks in advance

We understand it isn't an exact and perfect prediction for the state of things half a month from now, but it's better than nothing.

"your area is at risk of blackouts next week - 60%" is better than nothin'

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