Planned power outages in CA.

[Kimberle]

Is this a new thing? We got a memo from one of our stores, that they will be closed 1 day this week. Apparently, the state of CA informed them there will be no electricity in their area for 24 hours.

All the store in the area are worried about looters breaking in, stealing and trashing the places. No electricity means no security systems, etc. How on earth is this a good thing? Not even mentioning the lost revenue for a day and the hourly employees who will be without pay for a day.....

 

[Sthronds]

Depends on the reason for the blackout. If they are working on a transformer or something in the area, then they usually announce it ahead of time and there isn't much that can be done. It happened here a couple years ago and completely fouled up a field trip that I had planned for the WHOLE SCHOOL! Talk about frustrating! I didn't think this would be unique to CA though.

 

[Molly Meow]

Like Sthronds said, they could have to do some work - that would be stated in the memo.

Or it could be - *groan* - rolling blackouts.

I haven't heard anything about them doing those so far this year, but it wouldn't surprise me. I know they sent memos out to businesses about those, but not to private citizens. They were on the radio.

They also don't usually last 24 hours, thankfully.

 

[minniecarousel]

Geez - there shouldn't be a reason for rolling black-outs right now. I haven't heard a thing & I'm located in the Bay Area. Maybe it's an LA thing?

 

[Honu]

This has to be for some kind of construction. We've had our power shut off for 6-8 hours (on a weekend) so the city could hook up a new building in the area, AND the tenant/owner of the new building had to pay for our security patrol to be onsite during the outage. I can't imagine 24 hours though.

 

[mommaU4]

Ah, good ol' rolling black outs. I wanna go home.....