If you sue an evil private or publicly into bankruptcy, it is probably wise to make sure you won't miss said "evil" if it goes away.
The conditions are right for more wildfires in Kalifornia, so PG&E, which got sued into bankruptcy from the last big fires, decided to shut off the power to the transmission lines in the affected areas during the day or two or three of bad winds. Once they started hitting the switches, they let it be known that due to regulations and such, it would take at least 5 days after the shutdown was over to get power back up. They had to inspect the lines before they could re-energize them.
So now there are a couple of million people who won't have power for a week and a half or longer just so PG&E doesn't get sued again.
This will be interesting to watch. Gas stations shut down, Tesla owners screwed and probably can't make a run for it, grocery stores down, hospitals at bare bones, emergency services at bare bones, at some point cell phone tower generators will run out of fuel, but cell phone batteries will probably be dead by then anyway. At least the temperatures are mild for the most part I think.
The conditions are right for more wildfires in Kalifornia, so PG&E, which got sued into bankruptcy from the last big fires, decided to shut off the power to the transmission lines in the affected areas during the day or two or three of bad winds. Once they started hitting the switches, they let it be known that due to regulations and such, it would take at least 5 days after the shutdown was over to get power back up. They had to inspect the lines before they could re-energize them.
So now there are a couple of million people who won't have power for a week and a half or longer just so PG&E doesn't get sued again.
This will be interesting to watch. Gas stations shut down, Tesla owners screwed and probably can't make a run for it, grocery stores down, hospitals at bare bones, emergency services at bare bones, at some point cell phone tower generators will run out of fuel, but cell phone batteries will probably be dead by then anyway. At least the temperatures are mild for the most part I think.