WetEV
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Yes. Corrected.coulomb said:Did you mean 40 kWh?WetEV said:So 40Wh / 700W = 57 hours.
Yes. Corrected.coulomb said:Did you mean 40 kWh?WetEV said:So 40Wh / 700W = 57 hours.
12 bars?Oilpan4 said:Mines a 24kwh.
From what I can tell, power was restored on Monday (10/28) by around 7 pm. I was already well out of the country.cwerdna said:LOL on the first part. So, power went out Saturday at ~8:20 pm. Unfortunately, Comcrap didn't stay up long this time. It went out before the 30 minute mark. (My cable modem and access point are on UPSes.) During the last PSPS, Comcrap stayed up for over 45 minutes.LTLFTcomposite said:So you're the one causing all this climate change :-Dcwerdna said:I won't even be in town. I get on a plane to Japan on Sunday morning.
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I'm waiting at the airport now w/a 2 hour delayed flight. It sounds like the all clear for my area is Monday at 8 am but it sounds like it's for the weather event. They still need to inspect/finish inspections of the power lines before they turn power back on. So, it could be that day or another day. And, if there's damage, that needs to be fixed.
DaveinOlyWA said:Just saw the Netflix special on "Fire in Paradise" and it was very scary. If you aren't into it, then I strongly suggest to you fast forward to the last 5 minutes of the show (its only 40 mins long) where a firefighter talks about how he is seeing an escalating severity to the fires and says we no longer have the ability to effectively fight them any more.
Oilpan4 said:70 years of putting out easy little forest fires has given us unstoppable wild fires.
Conditions immediately leading up to and during the fire combined to create a highly combustible fuel load:
Heavy grass cover due to a wet spring
An unusually dry fall
Decreased Humidity due to several recent wind events (23% dropping to 10%)
Unusually dry fuel (5% 1,000-hr. moisture level)
Hot, dry, sustained and gusting high winds (25-35 mph), including a Red Flag Warning on the day of the fire, similar to the Diablo wind or the Santa Ana winds of the California Coast Ranges.
The day of the fire, the fuel energy release component was above the historic record for November 8; the first fall rain is normally before November 1.
"Fire brakes"?Oilpan4 said:More of a reason to practice responsible forestry like maintaining fire brakes on public lands and making sure power line right of ways are maintained.
WetEV said:"Fire brakes"?Oilpan4 said:More of a reason to practice responsible forestry like maintaining fire brakes on public lands and making sure power line right of ways are maintained.
What kind of a fire break would help with a wind driven fire throwing embers a mile or more downwind? And the embers started new fires, due to the dry grass, low humidity, dry fuels.
Power line right of ways need to be maintained to prevent trees from falling on power lines. But again, not factual for the Camp Fire that burned Paradise. It was the power line, not the right of way, that was the apparent cause.
Oilpan4 said:Do all fires have winds blow burning embers a mile ahead of the main fire?
WetEV said:Oilpan4 said:Do all fires have winds blow burning embers a mile ahead of the main fire?
Depends on multiple factors. Damp fuels and low winds will not be throwing many embers. And even if thrown will likely not start spot fires.
The California climate has changed. Wetter winters and springs mean more grass and other small fuels. Drier and hotter summer and falls mean more extreme fires. More total precipitation, more variability in precipitation.
Add to this human factors: more people moving into fire prone real estate (and damn the government for trying to limit uses of private property). Insurance and mortgage might have prevented some of this by pricing fire insurance at the future risk, not at the past risk. Not giving mortgages without fire insurance. Yes, and also in some areas suppression of small fires can lead to larger fires. Not everywhere, and not always a useful tool.
Look at the whole picture.
I've seen a reference in the news to some that lost houses in California that had mortgages without fire insurance. I don't think it was many people, and as I recall seemed to be limited to the appraised value of the building lot or less.LTLFTcomposite said:You can get a mortgage without fire insurance?
DaveinOlyWA said:...It is really quite pathetic how we place blame after the fact...
Nubo said:DaveinOlyWA said:...It is really quite pathetic how we place blame after the fact...
Even more pathetic that the "blame" issues forth from the President of the United States, not for any legitimate reasons, not from any knowledgeable and informed opinion, not from any desire to help the citizens he serves, but simply because of his political animosity towards a state with liberal policies and voting tendencies. Another opportunity to show his inflamed baboon-ass to the world.
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