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August 16, 2020, 12:21 PM
TXJIM
Keep sending us your crazy ass residents and we will keep sending you our crazy ass weather....fair is fair
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August 16, 2020, 01:03 PM
kkina
Add the additional aggravation of power outages (both scheduled rolling outages to reduce fire danger, and knockouts directly from the storms). There's one right now in San Mateo, a couple miles from me.
A lot of earthquake activity, too. And the numerous SoCal wildfires.
Storms, quakes, pestilence,... Yeah, it's getting Biblical out here.
There was a boom right about 5am that startled me awake. Wasn’t getting back to sleep after that adrenaline rush. Turns out there was a lightning strike just a few blocks from me and it was LOUD. Then the next few hours of dealing with wigged out dogs every time the next thunderclap hit.
My wife loves the heat and humidity of south so she was out on the patio the entire time enjoying the weather.
August 16, 2020, 01:10 PM
kkina
^I think I heard that boom. Well, I certainly heard a loud boom this morning about that time. I knew they predicted thunderstorms for today so wasn't too surprised, but still.
Originally posted by kkina: Add the additional aggravation of power outages (both scheduled rolling outages to reduce fire danger, and knockouts directly from the storms). There's one right now in San Mateo, a couple miles from me.
A lot of earthquake activity, too. And the numerous SoCal wildfires.
Storms, quakes, pestilence,... Yeah, it's getting Biblical out here.
It seems fitting that the apocalypse would start in SF.
Stay safe and hunker down.
Jim
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August 16, 2020, 03:00 PM
Scoutmaster
Lightning and thunder are a bit rare in Silicon Valley any time of the year. Even more rare in Aug.
I am glad my wake up hit at 4:00 this morning was lightning and thunder, not a 7.0 quake.
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. . . My wife loves the heat and humidity of south so she was out on the patio the entire time enjoying the weather.
Tell your wife she can have a Florida summer at home anytime of year. Put your dishwasher on a pots 'n pans cycle, half way through, open the door and stick your head in.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
August 16, 2020, 09:55 PM
Scott in NCal
It has been hours and the dog still will not come out from under the bed.
August 16, 2020, 09:58 PM
kkina
The grid operator just announced probable rolling blackouts tonight. Due to the heat wave overtaxing the power grid.
Just got back from the Sierra's after cooling down in a cold Alpine lake...good grief.
111 driving through Stockton and Lodi, humidity continued to go up closer to the coast, lighting rolling through....its monsoon season.
August 17, 2020, 07:36 PM
feersum dreadnaught
Rolling blackouts are due to lack of generation capacity. Nuke plants shut down are not even close to being replaced with solar. Sun and wind do not equal base load capacity...
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August 17, 2020, 08:45 PM
Scoutmaster
quote:
Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught: Rolling blackouts are due to lack of generation capacity. Nuke plants shut down are not even close to being replaced with solar. Sun and wind do not equal base load capacity...
I am sure I have posted this on the Forum before.
Ivanpah Solar Power in SoCal was, maybe still is, the largest solar power plant in the US (to save the planet from evil fossil fuels). But once in operation, it delivered only 2/3 of the promised electricity, meaning the cost per watt/hour was 50% more than planned. And, to deliver power when there was not sufficient sun, they had natural gas powered generators, which emitted enough CO2 that Ivanpah had to register as a gross polluter.
Also, there were lawsuits that the 3500 acres of solar panels were harming the local plant and animal life (ie, screwing up the environment).
But as CA Gov Newsom has said, the nation and the world are looking to CA to lead the way.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
August 17, 2020, 09:58 PM
chellim1
They could fire up that last nuclear plant again, right?
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August 17, 2020, 11:45 PM
slosig
Neither unit one nor unit two at Diablo has been shutdown yet, but it isn’t far off. They’ll shut when their licenses expire, one in 2024 and the other in 2025 if I remember correctly.
August 18, 2020, 03:49 PM
Slippery Pete
Mighty strange weather. I haven't lived here long, but the sky was orange when I got up. Next door posts show trees that got pulverized by lightning. Big trees.
But as CA Gov Newsom has said, the nation and the world are looking to CA to lead the way.
Not today. Little Gavin actually admits "green energy" fails to meet the needs of California.
quote:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that the state had to “sober up” about the fact that renewable energy sources had failed to provide enough power for the state at peak demand, and needed “backup” and “insurance” from other sources.
Newsom addressed journalists and the public in the midst of ongoing electricity blackouts that began on Friday, as hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in northern and central California lost power.
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
August 18, 2020, 09:54 PM
Scoutmaster
^^^^^^^^ I am quite sure Gov Newsom and other uppers in gov't won't have THEIR electricity cut off.
"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it....While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it" - Judge Learned Hand, May 1944
Not like I have any love for PG&E or any of the other utilities (SCE and SDG&E) but, nobody has held the state Public Utilities Commission's feet to the fire, whom instructed PG&E, to build 'renewables/green energy' thus, they rubber stamped on every project, despite the fact that PG&E has told the PUC their equipment was in need of maintenance and updating. Welp, we got 2018 and 2019 fires largely blamed on equipment/maintenance failures which wiped out a handful of communities, many deaths, and etched a new season in the calendar along with rioting, flooding, and heat.
...I wish.
