On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 06:58:37 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 1/10/2019 8:56 PM, Bill wrote:

Last night power goes out at 5:30. We have had big rains and winds, no
problem. Most utilities underground. So call wife and say meet her for
dinner as power out at home. Lots of police action and fire trucks at
bottom of the hill. Girl has knocked down a power pole, gone through a
fence in to,a,storage shed at the local senior mobile home park. Still in
car as power lines all over the place. PG&E has about 8 trucks working. 3
hours later they get her out of car, and reroute the power to the area.
Pretty impressive repairs. Girl was,probably texting but said she got
confused on brakes and gas.



Unrelated to your local accident, but I heard on the news that areas in
California can expect power outages in the next several months as
utility lines are inspected in an attempt to
prevent future fires like those that occurred recently. PG&E equipment
was specifically mentioned as being a possible cause of one of the
biggest and deadliest fires.


I heard about that through my electrical people. That Camp fire was
caused by a transmission line that had been reported as arcing for
days but nobody did anything about it.
California is pretty notorious for an aging and badly maintained grid
tho. I am not sure they ever recovered from the Enron disaster.