At least they are giving people some time to get a generator, talk to neighbors etc. Rather than have a fire rip the whole place apart and all the residents lose everything. To think the last big fire was all because people wouldn’t let them trim the trees and maintain the Right-of-way. Hmm weird.
Do I think what they are doing it right? No! They are in a dammed if they do dammed if they don’t situation. This is their attempt to prove a point, Unfortunately I don’t think it is the right way to do it.
I have hand delivered many generators to those with life supporting devices in their homes. Whenever we would have a scheduled outage to place all the poles, wire, and equipment we would get those people all setup with their proper electrical needs by providing a generator. I used to work for PG&E and I understand that the public absolutely hates PG&E. I would get flipped off by old ladies as I was responding to a power outage. How nice is that. Lol
PG&E is currently rebuilding basically their whole entire electrical grid. We can’t keep lineman around up here in WA. Thousands have flocked to CA, it’s like the gold rush but instead Lineman are rebuilding the electrical grid. When I left from PG&E there were over 100 contractor crews working on PG&E property. That is a lot and that was back in 2013. Now there are God knows how many.
I just felt I needed to add in a Lineman’s perspective on this whole sh!# show they have going on down there. It’s a mess that is for sure.
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I really appreciate your perspective on this issue. I know there are many many good people who work for these companies. Thank you for all you personally do to keep the power flowing to the people who need and pay for it. I guess we just watch this unfold and see how much people are willing to take.
I have been actually waiting for this time to come since they announced they were goin got start doing this sort of thing last year. I was curious if they were actually going to do it. I’m going to call a couple of my lineman buddies and see how things are going. PG&E is in damage control mode. Electricity and trees = huge fire potential. My prayers go out to all those people effected and my fellow lineman. Cheers
After a quick phone call I found out that one lineman was shot at and another punched in the face so far. So sad...
Really is so sad. Every one is so divided and on edge. Placing blame on everyone except the broken bureaucracy that is at the root. Thanks for the update.