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I survived the Cali fires, cause I'm such a hottie! =^_^=
11 months ago
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HA! I managed to survive the recent Cali fires!
They now "preemptively" turn off the power for a lot of people if it gets any more windy than 15mph in certain areas, basically causing a lot of people to suddenly fear " slightly breezy" days because the power company refuses to eat the cost of burying power lines in high-risk areas.
I hate this freaking state!
The majority "Democrat Establishment Party" government says they "Care about the environment" but then seem to ACTIVELY DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT WHENEVER THEY CAN!
It is like they are doing it on purpose just so they can have something to "fight" and get stupid people to keep voting for them.
They NEVER WANT TO FIX THE PROBLEMS because then they can keep campaigning on "trying to fix" the problems. Homelessness, price gouging and inflation, housing costs, rent costs, fires, drought and so on.
Gross governmental mismanagement of forests and refusal to build new reservoirs or even fill the ones already there, all while allowing power companies to have legal "local monopolies" as the "CEO" of SCE at EDISON INTERNATIONAL is paid over $3.1MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!
They also constantly want to raise power costs to consumers by over 10% every year, and the so-called "liberal' and "progressive" California government almost always allows it (especially when they get direct kickbacks and stock options).
This same state wants to outlaw gas and diesel vehicles, and even the gas or diesel GENERATORS that are needed in blackouts by 2030, while doing nothing to make power more stable or reliable or affordable, all so Gavin Newsom can run as the "establishment" Democrat for puppet/president in 2028 by pretending he "Cares about muh environment", while in reality doing more to hurt the environment than help it.
They are trying to mandate "ZERO EMISSION GENERATORS" which... Don't fucking exist!
A fueled generator is used when electricity is hard to get, meaning even battery walls/banks need to be supplemented by gas or diesel generators to keep charged in extended blackouts because solar or wind power is either too expensive or not allowed in certain cities/ordinances in this so-called "liberal" and "progressive" state.
This is so hypocritical in a state that likes to brag about how "progressive" and "liberal" it is, while doing janky "corporate bullshit" that Republican conservatives did back in the 1990s/2000s.
Though it was pretty hilarious to see a bunch of overly rich Tesla and Lucid and Rivian electric vehicle owners all stranded at a local mall when the massive black-soot-spewing semi-truck-sized diesel generators needed to charge their "environmentally friendly" cars in a planned blackout broke down leaving them with no place to charge within 15 miles, and then causing day-long waits to charge at the few tesla stations 15 miles away.
The future's so dark, I gotta wear Night Vision Goggles! *facepalm*
They now "preemptively" turn off the power for a lot of people if it gets any more windy than 15mph in certain areas, basically causing a lot of people to suddenly fear " slightly breezy" days because the power company refuses to eat the cost of burying power lines in high-risk areas.
I hate this freaking state!
The majority "Democrat Establishment Party" government says they "Care about the environment" but then seem to ACTIVELY DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT WHENEVER THEY CAN!
It is like they are doing it on purpose just so they can have something to "fight" and get stupid people to keep voting for them.
They NEVER WANT TO FIX THE PROBLEMS because then they can keep campaigning on "trying to fix" the problems. Homelessness, price gouging and inflation, housing costs, rent costs, fires, drought and so on.
Gross governmental mismanagement of forests and refusal to build new reservoirs or even fill the ones already there, all while allowing power companies to have legal "local monopolies" as the "CEO" of SCE at EDISON INTERNATIONAL is paid over $3.1MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!
They also constantly want to raise power costs to consumers by over 10% every year, and the so-called "liberal' and "progressive" California government almost always allows it (especially when they get direct kickbacks and stock options).
This same state wants to outlaw gas and diesel vehicles, and even the gas or diesel GENERATORS that are needed in blackouts by 2030, while doing nothing to make power more stable or reliable or affordable, all so Gavin Newsom can run as the "establishment" Democrat for puppet/president in 2028 by pretending he "Cares about muh environment", while in reality doing more to hurt the environment than help it.
They are trying to mandate "ZERO EMISSION GENERATORS" which... Don't fucking exist!
A fueled generator is used when electricity is hard to get, meaning even battery walls/banks need to be supplemented by gas or diesel generators to keep charged in extended blackouts because solar or wind power is either too expensive or not allowed in certain cities/ordinances in this so-called "liberal" and "progressive" state.
This is so hypocritical in a state that likes to brag about how "progressive" and "liberal" it is, while doing janky "corporate bullshit" that Republican conservatives did back in the 1990s/2000s.
Though it was pretty hilarious to see a bunch of overly rich Tesla and Lucid and Rivian electric vehicle owners all stranded at a local mall when the massive black-soot-spewing semi-truck-sized diesel generators needed to charge their "environmentally friendly" cars in a planned blackout broke down leaving them with no place to charge within 15 miles, and then causing day-long waits to charge at the few tesla stations 15 miles away.
The future's so dark, I gotta wear Night Vision Goggles! *facepalm*
I'm lucky for now but still near an area that won't allow "brush clearing" or "controlled burns" so it is a tinder box ready to go at any moment.
I was mostly bored to death from having no power, bad air quality, and the cell towers being so overloaded that I couldn't even use cellular-provided internet till 2am for nearly a week.
I gotta buy some books or something since going back to pre-1800s lantern light is the "new normal" in the year 2025.
Now it is looking like they might shut things down for another week because winds over 15mph are predicted next week too. X_x
I continue to wonder just how far incompetent, cowardly, corrupt/traitorous Govt. is going to push the Peasantry, before SHTF.
I continue to wonder, in dismayed amazement.
Glad to hear you weren't in the bullseye of this current event.
Might have got one big fire a year locally often caused by powerlines down, heat-lightning, or the occasional arsonist... But this shit where half the damn state gets lit up at once because of gross government incompetence, or at this point outright malice, is nuts.
Hell, even after the 1994 Northridge quake, power was only down for about 3 days where I was at the time, not a week for "preemptive measures" over a "mild breeze" or "possibility of an earthquake". >.<
I was about to leave Cali just a few months after the housing market went absolutely insane when companies like Blackrock and Vanguard decided to start buying up residential homes and pricing normal people out of house-buying and then causing private sellers to think all their shit was suddenly worth 4x what it actually is.
At that time (DECADES ago!), the lack of 'Govt. competency' to manage foliage was all the news. Yet nothing of any value changed, and in fact (As you noted), it only got further gutted/worse. Then we had the Paradise Incineration, Napa a few times over, N. CA, and of course, S. CA and those wonderful Santa Ana's, that everyone has known about since Los Angeles was a SPANISH FORT.
Yet nothing of value was done to prevent it.
At what point does mere ignorance turn into gross incompetence, then earns dereliction of duty (Aka, MURDER since people lost their lives!)?
Yet what's going to happen?
My guess-
1) Newscum will retire/retreat and enjoy living off his many millions for screwing over the State of California and its Citizenry.
2) No one will be held, much less suffer for any of it.
Just my .02 on it.
:-/
Don't forget how he acted during the "lockdowns" having multiple large "no mask parties" and such while telling everyone else to mask up and social distance. Running small business restaurant and food-truck owners out of business while giving himself and personal friends exemptions.
Or telling/forcing people to conserve water when he gives himself an exemption for his mansion's lawns and vineyard, and the golf courses he frequents.
This dude is the perfect, corrupt, hardcore "establishment" type that the neo-con Democrats want to run.
People do not hate this Govt. Cartel nearly enough.
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The electric light bulb.