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

3 points by campfireveteran ↗ HN
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.

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campfireveteran
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
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
Just lost power as of 2:19 pm with no real notification yet again.

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
Guess what? If the state took over PG&E today, the state would be instituting the same blackouts. For the same reasons.
joeblow9999
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