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Yes. There’s been a lot of storms this spring and the wind has brought down power cables left and right. That’s in addition to whatever other crap is up that’s
by OkGoDoIt 3y ago
Yes. There’s been a lot of storms this spring and the wind has brought down power cables left and right. That’s in addition to whatever other crap is up that’s causing power and even occasionally gas to be shut off for days at a time. Depending on where you live in the bay area, you might’ve had a few hour long shut offs, a few day long shut off’s, or worse and that’s just this year. I personally have had almost 3 total days without power where I live in the inner sunset of San Francisco, including 6 incidents of between 1 and 5 hours, and 1 period of two whole days. I have friends elsewhere in the city who’ve had it a lot worse. I don’t personally know anyone who has had 14 days total outages, but I would absolutely believe it given what I have seen. Also my personal PG&E bill for my home of two people and a baby is over $500 a month between electric and gas. I also run a small-midsize 400 seat theater in SF Chinatown and the monthly power and gas bill for that is almost $3000 a month even though we only run events two or three days a week. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
- throwaway892238 3y agoEverybody should listen to The Dollop's episodes on PG&E. It's pretty nuts. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDollop/comments/11e1c8u/the_dollop_572_pge_part_one/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDollop/comments/11e1c8u/the_doll... https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDollop/comments/11kmmsk/the_dollop_573_pge_part_two/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDollop/comments/11kmmsk/the_doll... Amazingly this is not the worst US utility company. They are all pretty horrible.
- DangitBobby 3y agoWow now I feel really grateful to have maybe one or two outages (that last maybe an hour) per year!