PG&E to intentionally shut off power again – this time to 150k customers

Re:PG&E to intentionally shut off power again – this time to... by wcarron on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:42PM (#21586246)

> the fire services has shown itself not capable of containing the blazes

You realize how large these fires are, right? It is an incredible achievement that they are contained even a little bit. These fires can be so large and burn so hot that they create their own weather patterns over hundreds, even thousands of square miles.

Saying "fire service has show itself not capable of containing" fires is nearly as ignorant as blaming beach life guards for being "incapable of containing a hurricane storm surge"

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Re:PG&E to intentionally shut off power again – this time to... by dfsegoat on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:35PM (#21588811)

I beg to differ:

Fire services saved my town just last month when the largest fire in our counties history was set to erase it from the map. They can make a stand where they need to if they have time.

Source: "Inside the fight to save Windsor from the Kincade Fire" [1]

1 - https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/10278596-181/inside-the-f...

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Re:PG&E to intentionally shut off power again – this time to... by neuronflux on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @12:51PM (#21586349)

And yet, that's the job of fire fighters.

Lifeguards don't contain storms...

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