There’s about to be really bad fire weather, and PG&E (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PCG/ ) announced with less than a day of notice that it will cut power to 800,000 hookups for up to 5 days. Because its power lines start fires.
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Among other things, this means the Caldecott Tunnel, which was the site of two famous fires and which handles ~160,000 cars per day, might just close up for now.
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So roughly a million people are about to be very inconvenienced at best, and a few will probably have necessary medical devices stop working. (If you’re in the Dark Zone, maybe a good time to check on elderly neighbors who live alone.)
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The climate crisis is part of this, and this is a part of the climate crisis. Also a crisis in infrastructure governance and maintenance. It’s also about land use! And it’s going to be really important to about a million people this week.
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This thread took off. People are pointing out that they have, in fact, seen this on national and international news. Good! I saw verrry little coverage yesterday, and my time machine isn’t working because it’s low on cyan ink, so I can’t update the tweet.
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Also, some people are asking what this all has to do with the climate. Here’s some reading: 1. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019EF001210 … 2. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Virtues/Good_Faith#Everyday_Good_Faith …
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It’s been on the New York Times home page for days, so dramatique
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It’s on their homepage right now, and the coverage is quite good. When I wrote this, it was not on their homepage. And coverage of something PG&E announced on Tuesday couldn’t have been there for days, so maybe cool your jets.
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