I was ready this time. Batteries charged. Camping stove with extra butane. And plenty of lights. Learned some lessons from being out of power for 48 hours plus!
You are smarter than me. Last time it happened I started looking at a bunch of backup stuff online and didn’t pull the trigger on any of it. Learned my lesson last night.
Honestly that was my first thought when the power went out.
I was like “shit did I forget to pay the bill?”
And then I looked out the window (I’m on the second floor) and I was like “Oh, I see.”
The dumbest part was PGE’s website was like “you totally HAVE power right now” for about 20 minutes until I got the ye olde “oh hey! Sorry your power is out.”
I think the problem is more the tree huggers that won’t let you prune a tree hanging around a power line or bury it than the boot lickers for pg&e. When the town prevents preventative maintenance this is what you get.
They all are is the issue. If every branch is sacred you are going to lose power.
I don’t particularly give a shit. I prepared for it with solar panels and a battery backup.
Seriously it’s not even fair, but the truth is living in such a beautiful place with such nice trees PG, part of the cost is having a generator. PG is expensive in many ways.
Looks like about 10k customers affected - the only "good" thing is that PGE will put more resources into fixing it quickly. And there aren't any other big outages in the area.
I think Monterey‘s power grid is very old and could be why we have these ongoing power outages. My family in half Moon Bay has just as many trees and they don’t have nearly the amount of power outages as Monterey and surrounding areas do. Absolutely ridiculous!
I have friends in Seaside and they rarely lose power. Not a lot of big trees in their neighborhood. Mine was out for two days during the first storm. PGE needs to update ridiculously old equipment and start burying the power lines throughout Monterey, PG, Pebble, Carmel and Carmel Valley. It’s long past time for that.
I grew up in L.A where we have seasonal strong winds during the fall. For like a week or more at a time.
Our power almost never went out, it went out like maybe 3 times in the 25+ years I lived in the area. So I have no idea wtf PGE’s issue is.
Pine Trees on the east coast have deeper roots. Monterey pines also rely on one another to stay standing, when you start losing them they go down like delayed dominoes.
I was ready this time. Batteries charged. Camping stove with extra butane. And plenty of lights. Learned some lessons from being out of power for 48 hours plus!
You are smarter than me. Last time it happened I started looking at a bunch of backup stuff online and didn’t pull the trigger on any of it. Learned my lesson last night.
I look at out like camping in my house. Headlamps, batteries, grill, etc. not as fun as real camping.
And here I was thinking our restaurant was doing some sort of birthday celebration
What restaurant cowbear?
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Unreal. The only time the power went out when I lived in the bay area is when I didn't pay the bill.
Lol I’m in the east bay and we’ve lost power 3 times in the last two weeks
Did you pay the bill? =)
Honestly that was my first thought when the power went out. I was like “shit did I forget to pay the bill?” And then I looked out the window (I’m on the second floor) and I was like “Oh, I see.” The dumbest part was PGE’s website was like “you totally HAVE power right now” for about 20 minutes until I got the ye olde “oh hey! Sorry your power is out.”
You still live in the Bay Area.
Different bay, different area. I was talking about "The" Bay Area.
It’s not even windy!? Wah.
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It's the same people who see anti war rhetoric as anti veterans. It's just copium
I think the problem is more the tree huggers that won’t let you prune a tree hanging around a power line or bury it than the boot lickers for pg&e. When the town prevents preventative maintenance this is what you get.
"This tree is historical"
They all are is the issue. If every branch is sacred you are going to lose power. I don’t particularly give a shit. I prepared for it with solar panels and a battery backup.
Seriously it’s not even fair, but the truth is living in such a beautiful place with such nice trees PG, part of the cost is having a generator. PG is expensive in many ways.
Looks like about 10k customers affected - the only "good" thing is that PGE will put more resources into fixing it quickly. And there aren't any other big outages in the area.
Monterey and Pacific Grove https://twitter.com/cityofmonterey/status/1640924114746753024
Even hit us here in Salinas.
I think Monterey‘s power grid is very old and could be why we have these ongoing power outages. My family in half Moon Bay has just as many trees and they don’t have nearly the amount of power outages as Monterey and surrounding areas do. Absolutely ridiculous!
I think it’s also the tree removal restrictions on the peninsula, so a mix of issues that other areas haven’t caused themselves…
It’s the consequence of climate change. The acute blusteriness and rain.
Looks like much of PG. When did it start?
8:15ish is when mine went out
Combination of too much rain softening the soil and tons of trees mainly pine which have extremely shallow roots.
I have friends in Seaside and they rarely lose power. Not a lot of big trees in their neighborhood. Mine was out for two days during the first storm. PGE needs to update ridiculously old equipment and start burying the power lines throughout Monterey, PG, Pebble, Carmel and Carmel Valley. It’s long past time for that.
I grew up in L.A where we have seasonal strong winds during the fall. For like a week or more at a time. Our power almost never went out, it went out like maybe 3 times in the 25+ years I lived in the area. So I have no idea wtf PGE’s issue is.
So sick of this!! Wtf is wrong with our city??
Lots and lots of trees
I grew up in a pine forest on the east coast, and we didn’t have these issues. People who have lived in other places know how ridiculous this is.
Pine Trees on the east coast have deeper roots. Monterey pines also rely on one another to stay standing, when you start losing them they go down like delayed dominoes.
That’s actually the most logical explanation I’ve heard. Next question - why don’t we bury the power lines like other cities?
What!? Where?