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Tell HN: PG&E – Just got a notification in Paradise about another PSPS

9:27 AM PST text message today 10/23/2019 PG&E Safety Alert: To protect public safety, PG&E has turned off or will soon turn off power. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe. Previously (repeated 3x) PG&E Safety Alert: Due to weather forecast, PG&E may turn off power in a portion of our service area. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe.

campfireveteran 7y ago
In recent PSPSes, they didn't send notifications about the possibilities of or the imminence of the power shutoff. They were turning off the power here during the night/early morning between around 11 pm - 3 am.
- campfireveteran 7y ago
  Update: Air conditioner blasting in case it gets hot later. Power is still on as of 11:25 am, but who knows if/when PG&E is going to turn it off. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ EDIT: Still on as of 1:03 pm, it doesn't seem like PG&E is going to follow-through. This is even more troubling because they are appearing to send mixed messages, which are just as useless as no messages.
  - campfireveteran 7y ago
    Just lost power as of 2:19 pm with no real notification yet again. https://pge.com/outages https://pge.com/outages says No Known Outage :/ Call their number to report an outage, just crickets (complete silence). EDIT: Now (at 2:33 pm) it says: ---- Outage Details ---- START TIME: OCT 23, 2:18 PM ESTIMATED RESTORATION: Not available CUSTOMERS AFFECTED: 1015 CAUSE: Unknown - PG&E will be assessing the cause. [This is wrong, they turned it off for the PSPS update which just landed.] STATUS: PG&E has assigned a crew to assess the outage. LAST UPDATED: OCT 23, 2:24 PM Oh yeah, and 5000 customers just lost power in SF. Is PG&E trying to get taken over by the state and cities? Text at 2:35 pm PG&E Safety Update: Forecasted weather conditions have changed. Impacted addresses have been updated. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe. -- EDIT 2 --- Text at 2:35 PM repeated identically at 2:46 pm. I take it they don't do any de-duplication or indexing of phone numbers for subscriptions, so they just spam people N times and have no way to unsubscribe people subscribed N times.
    - Bud 7y ago
      Guess what? If the state took over PG&E today, the state would be instituting the same blackouts. For the same reasons.
      - joeblow9999 7y ago
        also the state already owns and is in in control of pge. its not a private company in the way we normally think of a private company

campfireveteran 7y ago

In recent PSPSes, they didn't send notifications about the possibilities of or the imminence of the power shutoff. They were turning off the power here during the night/early morning between around 11 pm - 3 am.

campfireveteran 7y ago
Update: Air conditioner blasting in case it gets hot later. Power is still on as of 11:25 am, but who knows if/when PG&E is going to turn it off. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ EDIT: Still on as of 1:03 pm, it doesn't seem like PG&E is going to follow-through. This is even more troubling because they are appearing to send mixed messages, which are just as useless as no messages.
- campfireveteran 7y ago
  Just lost power as of 2:19 pm with no real notification yet again. https://pge.com/outages https://pge.com/outages says No Known Outage :/ Call their number to report an outage, just crickets (complete silence). EDIT: Now (at 2:33 pm) it says: ---- Outage Details ---- START TIME: OCT 23, 2:18 PM ESTIMATED RESTORATION: Not available CUSTOMERS AFFECTED: 1015 CAUSE: Unknown - PG&E will be assessing the cause. [This is wrong, they turned it off for the PSPS update which just landed.] STATUS: PG&E has assigned a crew to assess the outage. LAST UPDATED: OCT 23, 2:24 PM Oh yeah, and 5000 customers just lost power in SF. Is PG&E trying to get taken over by the state and cities? Text at 2:35 pm PG&E Safety Update: Forecasted weather conditions have changed. Impacted addresses have been updated. More info: pge.com/pspsupdates. Text UNENROLL to unsubscribe. -- EDIT 2 --- Text at 2:35 PM repeated identically at 2:46 pm. I take it they don't do any de-duplication or indexing of phone numbers for subscriptions, so they just spam people N times and have no way to unsubscribe people subscribed N times.
  - Bud 7y ago
    Guess what? If the state took over PG&E today, the state would be instituting the same blackouts. For the same reasons.
    - joeblow9999 7y ago
      also the state already owns and is in in control of pge. its not a private company in the way we normally think of a private company