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September 30, 2020

 
 
Triple-Digit Temperatures Will Tax the Grid so PG&E, Other Utilities Asking Customers to Cut Energy Use Between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m.
 
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—With triple-digit heat forecast for Thursday, Oct. 1, the state’s grid operator is calling for afternoon and evening energy conservation as one way to make sure that the supply of power stays ahead of demand.
 
The Flex Alert, called by the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), has been issued for Thursday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. With high temperatures in the forecast, the grid operator is predicting an increase in electricity demand, primarily from air conditioning use. Reduced capacity, along with fire activity and heat, has led to a potential shortage of energy supply tomorrow evening, CAISO says.
 
Here are five ways PG&E customers can cut their power use and help keep the lights (and air conditioning) on for everyone:
 

• When it’s cooler outside, bring the cool air in: If the outside air is cool in the night or early morning, open windows and doors and use fans to cool your home.
• Close your shades: Sunlight passing through windows heats your home and makes your air conditioner work harder. Block this heat by keeping blinds or drapes closed on the sunny side of your home.
• Cool down with a fan: Fans keep air circulating, allowing you to raise the thermostat a few degrees and stay just as comfortable while reducing your air-conditioning costs.
• Clear the area around your AC: Your air conditioning unit will operate better if it has plenty of room to breathe. The air conditioner's outdoor unit, the condenser, needs to be able to circulate air without any interruption or obstruction. Also, dirty air filters make your air conditioner work harder to circulate air. By cleaning or replacing your filters monthly, you can improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.
• Set your thermostat at 78 degrees or higher, health permitting: Every degree you lower the thermostat means your air conditioner must work even harder to keep your home cool.

 
PG&E’s meteorologists say that a high-pressure system remains anchored over the state. Temperatures will reach into the 90s across the San Joaquin Valley and neighboring intermediate valleys to the west. High pressure will begin to slightly weaken on Friday, and temperatures will begin a cool-down for the weekend.
 
Breezy north-northwest winds up to 30 mph are possible along the coast and coastal gaps and peaks through the day Thursday and Friday. PG&E does not project a need for a Public Safety Power Shutoff due to this weather, but conditions will be continuously monitored.
 
Customers can actively help by shifting energy use to morning and nighttime hours. Conservation can lower demand and reduce the duration of possible power interruptions. In August, when California experienced its first rotating outages in two decades, conservation limited the effects to two nights rather than three or four. And, similarly, conservation over the very hot Labor Day weekend prevented the need for rotating outages.
 
PG&E’s Demand Response programs offer incentives for business owners and residential customers who curtail their energy use during times of peak demand. PG&E has several of these programs. About 261,000 PG&E customers are enrolled in one of these Demand Response programs. PG&E’s website includes detailed information on these programs, which allow residential customers and business customers to save energy and money.
 
PG&E is prepared and, based on forecasts, doesn’t anticipate any issues meeting the increased demand for power. At this point, CAISO has given no indication that it will call for rotating outages.
 
PG&E also urges customers to stay safe during this heat wave. The company funds cooling centers throughout its service area to help customers escape the heat and cool off. To find a center near you click here or call 1-877-474-3266. 
 
About PG&E
 
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy to nearly 16 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visitwww.pge.com/ and pge.com/news.
 
 
 
 
 

​FOREST UPDATE: Fire Restrictions Revised; Stove Use Approved in Campgrounds 
Nevada City, Calif. – The USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region has revised fire restrictions in California starting October 1 through October 8, 2020.
This revised Fire Restriction prohibits the following activities across all National Forests in California:
No Smoking
No building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire.

• The use of a portable lantern or stove using gas, jellied petroleum, or pressurized liquid fuel within a Developed Recreation Site (such as an official campground) is allowed.

 

• Generators are allowed for use on paved, gravel or dirt National Forest System roads and trails, staging areas, and within campgrounds.

While popular activities such as hunting, hiking, boating, and other types of general recreation are now allowed across the Tahoe National Forest after an unprecedented Forest Closure in early September, several prohibitions are still in place through October 18, 2020. These prohibitions include:
No camping outside of developed campgrounds. A list of open, developed campgrounds is provided below. There are two exceptions to this prohibition-

• Dispersed camping within the Granite Chief Wilderness is allowed. Dispersed camping within 500 feet of the Pacific Crest Trail is allowed.

No target shooting. Discharging a firearm, except while engaged in a lawful hunt pursuant to state, and federal law and regulations, is prohibited.
To read the Regional, Emergency Fire Restriction Order: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd815382.pdf
To read the Tahoe National Forest  Emergency Camping and Shooting Prohibition:https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd808972.pdf
 
Open Campgrounds
The following campgrounds are open; reservations are strongly encouraged.
Highway 89, South

• Silver

• Granite Flat

• Goose

Foresthill Divide Road

• Giant Gap

• Shirttail

​Gold Lake Road

• Packsaddle

• Salmon Creek

• Sardine

Marysville Road

• Dark Day

• Schoolhouse

Mosquito Ridge Road

• French Meadows (Water systems limited, campers are asked to conserve water)(Reopens 9/25)

Interstate 80

• Indian Springs

• North Fork (Reopens 9/25)

Highway 49

• Fiddle Creek

• Indian Valley

• Wild plum

• Union Flat

• Rocky Rest

• Cal Ida

• Carlton Flat

 

Highway 20

• White Cloud (some sites closed due to hazard trees)

• Skillman

Bowman Lake Road

• Carr-Feeley (PG&E managed site, first-come first-serve only)

• Lindsey (PG&E managed site, first-come first-serve only)

Highway 89, North 

• Cold Creek

• East Meadow (operated by NID)

• Prosser Family (Water systems under repair, campers must pack in water)

• Upper Little Truckee

 

• Cottonwood

• Lower Little Truckee

• Pass Creek (operated by NID)

• Pass Creek Overflow

• Lakeside

 
 
 

 
 
 

Harold Pease, Ph.D.



We are coming to the end of an election year where the “hunger games,” having gone on every four years for well over a century since William McKinley, are finalizing.  The “game” part of the process is how it is done by the mega rich through their super packs and media outlets causing the people to believe that they actually choose their president.  This, at least until 2016 when America rejected their anointed candidates.
For years I told my students that the quickest way to understand our political system is to watch the movie “The Hunger Games.”  The strategy is to herd all voters into their two camps called Republicans and Democrats excluding all other political parties, where there exist few real differences on foreign policy and where the super rich have agreement.  Since they own all major media outlets, information for or against those they allowed elevated is managed.  
The few astute enough to figure this out and learn of other choices are easily brought back into the fold by the siren call that they are throwing away their vote if going outside the “ordained” two parties.  Those disaffiliated with both establishment political parties, about 40 percent, called independents, are returned to the fold at election time still forced to choose from the existing approved candidates.  And thus only candidate names change every four years.
I suppose that as a political scientist by profession, this is more easily understood to me.  I write the Federal Elections Commission every Fall of every election year to find out who is running for president, which I have done since the early 1990’s.  Never has the list of serious candidates for president been less than 200 and never has the list of serious political parties, most offering a presidential candidate, been less than 20.  
So who are the excluded (deplatformed) candidates on the ballot in 2020.  “As of September 21, 2020, 1,202 candidates have filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for president” (https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential_candidates.  This cite lists candidate names and party affiliation).
The Federal Elections Commission requires that anyone running for president that spends or collects $5,000 or more on his/her candidacy for president file with them.  Obviously the number of presidential candidates and political parties has escalated far beyond that in the past.  I went through the list and found forty political parties, doubling the number of political parties previously.  
We used to assess the seriousness of a candidate by the $5,000 expenditure and how many states allowed his/her candidacy in their state.  States decide who qualifies for their ballots and who do not.  Since the Federal Election Commission has not yet published by state this information, as is common in past elections, it is difficult to know this number, but we can assume, as in past presidential elections, that it exceeds 20 political parties most offering a presidential candidate.  
The Federal Election Commission has six commissioners but it requires four votes to accomplish anything thus many important votes end tied at 3-3.  The president can only appoint three from his own political party so, in the most partisan time in American History since 1861, Democrat members have resigned and since August 31, 2019 the FEC has not had a quorum to function (Wikipedia, the Federal Election Commission).
So what other political parties offer choices for president on the ballot this year, absent the FEC state list and given the traditional non-coverage by the establishment media?  They follow:The two strongest are the Libertarian Party with (Jo Jorgensen) and Green Party, with Howie Hawkins.  Others that commonly provide a presidential candidates include: American Independent Party, Independent American Party, Constitution Party, Reform Party, Socialist Party, Peace and Freedom Party, and the Socialist Workers Party.  For most of the last century the Communist Party U.S.A nominated Gus Hall but that stopped when they concluded that more gains were coming through the Democratic Party than they could achieve under their party label.  
The Libertarian Party has offered a presidential candidate and convention in every election for decades and normally is on the ballot in every state of the union, but are never invited to the “big debates.”  The same could be said of the Green Party and a few others.  Certainly they feel excluded.  One may argue, “but they do not have enough voter strength to warrant inclusion,” but in fact, they do not have sufficient voter strength because the establishment media does not cover them.  Liberty Under Fire argues for debate inclusion for any candidate on the ballot of forty or more states. 
In political science we learn that the first election is the medias.  They vote first by their collective exclusion of those not registered as Democrat or Republican.  The people get to choose from those the media have not excluded.  The wisest, most experienced, most gifted and most honest person in America could not be president of the United States unless he/she were a Democrat or Republican.  
Media corporate owners have required media collusion and, as we have said in other columns, they are overwhelmingly also globalist and Council on Foreign Relations members.  In 2016 Trump survived this media filter by running as a Republican, and vaulted over the establishment by funding his own primary campaign enabling him to say things as he saw them and win over the majority of Americans who have also felt something amiss in Washington DC.  That is why they hate him.  He threatens their continued power.


 
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College.  Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
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            Washington—Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter to Federal Insurance Office Director Steven E. Seitz requesting a report on the effects of increased wildfire risk on private insurance markets, which is making insurance unaffordable for an increasing number of Californians.
 
            The letter asks for recommendations to make sure that home, business and commercial property insurance covering wildfire-related losses remains available and affordable.
 
            “As you know, it is among FIO’s functions to ‘monitor all aspects of the insurance industry’ and ‘to consult with the States…regarding insurance matters of national importance.’  Rising wildfire risk threatens to make home and business insurance unavailable and/or unaffordable to an ever-larger group of Americans, which I believe is a major problem that warrants your attention,” wrote Feinstein.
 
            “I ask that FIO issue a report on the risks involved, including addressing the questions attached to this letter.”
 
            Full text of the letter is available here and below.
 
September 24, 2020
 
Mr. Steven E. Seitz
Director, Federal Insurance Office
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20220
 
Dear Mr. Seitz:
 
            In light of increasingly devastating wildfires and the growing unaffordability of fire insurance in California and other Western states, I ask that the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) issue a report on the impacts that increased wildfire risk is having, and is likely to have in future years, on private insurance markets.  I also ask that this report include recommendations to ensure that home, business, and commercial property insurance covering wildfire-related losses remains available and affordable.
 
            The risk from wildfires in the Western United States has increased dramatically in recent years.  This year’s wildfires are already the largest on record, having burned more than 3.6 million acres in California alone, and months remain in the annual fire season.  Last year, the California Department of Insurance prevented insurers from declining to renew policies for about 800,000 homes in the state.  The executive director of the California State Association of Counties recently said that “the marketplace has largely collapsed” for insurance in high-risk areas of California.
 
            As you know, it is among FIO’s functions to “monitor all aspects of the insurance industry” and “to consult with the States…regarding insurance matters of national importance.”  Rising wildfire risk threatens to make home and business insurance unavailable and/or unaffordable to an ever-larger group of Americans, which I believe is a major problem that warrants your attention.  I ask that FIO issue a report on the risks involved, including addressing the questions attached to this letter.  I thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.
 
Sincerely,
 
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
 
Enclosure: Questions re: Insurance and Wildfire Risk Report
 
Attachment: Questions re: Insurance and Wildfire Risk Report
 
1.         Which significant factors are contributing most to the increased insurance risk of wildfires and losses related to them?
 
2.         Using the best evidence for estimating the future trends for the factors contributing to increased insurance risk of wildfires and wildfire-related losses, how much is that insurance risk likely to change in the future?
 
3.         Given the trend of increasing wildfire risk, is the current private market for property insurance in affected areas sufficiently robust to serve the needs of all consumers?  Can the private insurance market offer affordable insurance to the vast majority of individuals and businesses without some kind of federal participation (such as with the National Flood Insurance Program or the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program)?
 
4.         What are the demographic characteristics of Americans who, due to wildfire risk, are most likely to experience major increases in home insurance cost increases due to wildfire risk, or who may no longer be able to purchase adequate fire insurance at all? 
 
5.         What programs or other initiatives exist to improve wildfire risk mitigation in areas at risk of wildfire in the United States?  How effective have these efforts been in improving the affordability or accessibility of property insurance?  Are there additional mitigation approaches that state regulators, state and local governments, Congress, and other policy makers should consider?
 
6.         How well prepared are state insurance regulators and the insurance industry to handle the implications for insurance consumers of increased risk of insured losses from wildfires?  What steps could regulators or insurers take to improve their response to addressing the rising risk of wildfires?
 
7.         Are efforts to mitigate wildfire risk for insurance purposes appropriately included or coordinated with efforts to mitigate other disaster- and climate-related risks at the state, local, and federal levels?
 
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SACRAMENTO - Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) delivered a letter to Governor Newsom requesting that he investigate and cancel a $35 million contract to a public affairs firm with deep Democrat ties. Read Senator Grove's letter here.

A story in the Sacramento Bee today finds statements from officials within the Newsom Administration who questioned the legality and appropriateness of the contract given the political bias of the firm selected for the contract and the lack of required oversight. Read the Sacramento Bee story here.

Senate Republican Leader Grove released the following statement:

"California's chief election office has been compromised. The state budget this year allocated $35 million to individual counties to help them with their vote by mail program. Yet, the Secretary of State unilaterally bypassed these counties and took it upon himself to use these funds for a "voter outreach" campaign through a Democrat PR firm.

"This contract is problematic, questionable, and reeks of political bias using taxpayer dollars. I ask Governor Newsom to immediately cancel the contract and investigate its legality and appropriateness. The integrity of our elections must not be compromised," said Senate Republican Leader Shannon Grove.

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Senate Republican Leader Shan

Dr. Glenn Mollette 

September 29, 2020, was just another bad day in 2020. We thought that with Covid-19, unemployment, and riots in the streets of America's cities it could not get worse. It did.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Chris Wallace gave us a "show?" we will never forget.   
 
Our leaders used to make us proud. We grew up wanting to emulate people in high places who inspired us with their remarkable lives. We watched how they conducted themselves, communicated and chose their words wisely with dignity, diplomacy and grace.  This doesn't happen anymore in America. Tuesday's debate was just another plummeting example of how badly and poorly people can act in America. Biden and Trump are supposed to be our two best men running for the highest office in America. Chis Wallace works for one of the biggest networks in the world.  Instead we saw a production of America's scariest video, Heehaw gone crazy or bigtime wrestling Covid-19 style.
 
We've been on this track now for too long. The debates have gotten worse and worse. They have been more and more out of control. They have turned into 90 minutes of rudeness, name calling, hollering and mud throwing. Our children are watching and learning. 
 
Where did we lose civility in our nation? Did we ever have it? Is this just the way America has always been at heart and now we feel free to be who we really are? Rude, crude and ignorant? The Beverly Hillbillies had far more class than we saw Tuesday night. They may have been uncouth and backward but they didn't treat people badly. 
 
We've become scary in how we talk to and treat others in this country, starting with our national leadership and media. We have a nation of people who are quick to give you the middle finger on the highway, honk their horns at you on the road until you get out of their way and knock you down on the sidewalk rather than scoot over and give you some space to walk by.
 
Today, in America, we are name callers. We feel entitled to everything everyone else has without working for it. We expect to be treated with respect and dignity while we act like buffoons. Words and phrases such as "please, thank you, excuse me, may I, yes ma'am and yes sir," have been tossed out of too many windows. Therefore, we are now reaping what we sowed.  People feel like they have the right to treat others badly because of color or background, while others feel entitled to destroy and burn down our cities from Baltimore to Portland. We have a nation of people who believe they can do anything they want regardless of how others might be affected. This is one reason we can't defund the police. However, some of the procedures of the police must be revamped.
 
Be warned another debate is coming soon. Candidates should be allowed one- and two-minute response times to questions and to respond to statements. At these one and two-minute intervals the microphone should automatically be silenced so the next candidate can fairly respond with the same time limits. There has to be a fair civil way to conduct and present a Presidential debate. We need to see and hear one. We are desperate to get this nation back together, one people, under God, united, with liberty and justice for all. We have to see some of this in this next debate and it has to come from the moderator, President Trump and former Vice President Biden. 

September 29, 2020
 
On September 26, 2020 the residents of Sierra Brooks had the opportunity to participate in a community-wide green waste clean-up event. This annual event took place as one of the first stages in becoming a Firewise Community offering a chance for home owners to get involved in increasing defensible space around their homes. As a result, an estimated 319 yards of green waste was removed from Sierra Brooks, with the Loyalton Cogen reporting 22,460 pounds of that amount being delivered directly to their facility.
 
The Sierra Brooks Firewise Community Volunteer Group would like to thank the following people and businesses as this day would not have been possible without them; Sierra Valley Enterprises, LLC (Jeff Holland, Kirk Furlong-Wentworth, Jim Turner and Bonnie Richards), Intermountain Disposal, Inc., Sierra County Road Department (Tim Beals, Rob Moore and crew), Sierra County Fire Safe Council, Inc., Loyalton Volunteer Fire Department (Shawn Heywood and crew), Sierra Brooks Home Owners Association, Boy Scouts Troop #60 (Derrick Koch and kids), members of the Loyalton Football Team and FFA, Supervisor Dryden and local community members.
 
We thank you for your time and amazing hard work and cannot express enough how grateful we are to have had this turnout.
 
With appreciation,
The Sierra Brooks Firewise Community Volunteer Group

 
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa issued the following statement after signing a discharge petition, which would require the House to immediately take up H.R. 8265, a bill that would distribute the remaining approximately $135 billion in current Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) reserves that are sitting unused after the program expired on August 8th. Businesses would be able to receive a second PPP loan if they can demonstrate a revenue reduction. Additionally, it adds more flexibility in how PPP dollars can be spent while still being eligible for loan forgiveness.
 
A discharge petition is a legislative procedure to bring a bill directly to the Floor for a vote when signed by 218 Members of the House.
 
LaMalfa said: “The Paycheck Protection Program saved approximately 51 million jobs across the country, 12 million of which were in rural areas. There is still approximately $135 billion in loans that could be disbursed to help Northern California small businesses survive the COVID-19 pandemic and an active wildfire season, yet Speaker Pelosi has stalled for weeks to bring additional small business relief to the Floor. As more businesses close their doors for good each day, now is not the time to play politics with money that was already allocated on their behalf. A group of my colleagues and I used the discharge petition procedure to take matters into our own hands and attempt to bring forward a bill which provides support to struggling small businesses by reviving the tested and effective Paycheck Protection Program.”
 
 Congressman Doug LaMalfa is a lifelong farmer representing California’s First Congressional District, including Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou and Tehama Counties.
 

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As Scope of Weather Event Increases, PG&E Is Reaching Out to Additional Customers Who Might Be Impacted by the Public Safety Power Shutoff; Potentially 97,000 Total Customers 
 
 
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) continues to monitor a potentially strong and dry offshore wind event forecasted to start early Sunday morning and expected to last through Monday. Given the expected weather conditions, PG&E began its one-day advance notifications to customers in areas where PG&E may need to proactively turn power off for safety to reduce the risk of wildfire from energized power lines. 
 
The anticipated scope and timing of this event has changed from earlier announcements, based on updated weather forecasts that showed stronger wind gusts in a larger portion of PG&E’s service area.PG&E’s in-house meteorologists, as well as its Wildfire Safety Operation Center and Emergency Operations Center, continue to monitor conditions closely and additional notifications will be made today to customers who may be impacted by this event.
 
Potential Public Safety Power Shutoff on Sunday
The potential PSPS starting early Sunday morning could impact approximately 97,000 customers in portions of fifteen counties in the Northern Sierra and North Valley. Specifically, customers in portions of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Kern, Lake, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama and Yuba counties are being notified. The total customer impacts are currently projected to be as follows:
 
County
Customers impacted
Medical Baseline
Alpine
572
6
Amador
5,471
401
Butte
18,669
1,784
Calaveras
9,978
386
El Dorado
35,614
2,442
Kern
27
0
Lake
55
2
Napa
181
5
Nevada
7,345
438
Placer
9,657
609
Plumas
785
24
Shasta
2,816
241
Sierra
1,098
22
Tehama
1,223
58
Yuba
3,385
282
Total
96,876
6,700
 
Ongoing Customer Notifications
Customers can look up their address online to find out if their location is being monitored for the potential safety shutoff at www.pge.com/pspsupdates.  
 
Customer notifications—via text, email and automated phone call—began Thursday. Customers enrolled in the company’s Medical Baseline Program who do not verify that they have received these important safety communications will be individually visited in person by a PG&E employee when possible. A primary focus will be given to customers who rely on electricity for critical life-sustaining equipment.
 
Here’s Where to Go to Learn More

• PG&E’s emergency website www.pge.com/pspsupdates is now available in seven languages. 
• Customers are encouraged to update their contact information and indicate their preferred language for notifications by visiting www.pge.com/mywildfirealerts.
• Tenants and non-account holders can sign up to receive PSPS ZIP Code Alerts for any area where you do not have a PG&E account by visitingwww.pge.com/pspszipcodealerts.
• PG&E has launched a new tool at its online Safety Action Center www.safetyactioncenter.pge.com to help customers prepare for an emergency event. This site includes resources to help customers develop an emergency plan and make necessary safety preparations.

 
Community Resource Centers Reflect COVID-Safety Protocols
PG&E will open outdoor, open-air Community Resource Centers (CRCs) in every county where a PSPS occurs. These temporary CRCs will be open to customers when power is out at their homes and will provide ADA-accessible restrooms, hand-washing stations; medical-equipment charging; Wi-Fi; bottled water; grab-and-go bags and non-perishable snacks. PG&E updates its CRC locations regularly, click here for updates.
 
All CRCs will follow important health and safety protocols including:

• Facial coverings and maintaining a physical distance of at least six feet from those who are not part of the same household will be required at all CRCs. 
• Temperature checks will be administered before entering CRCs that are located indoors.
• CRC staff will be trained in COVID-19 precautions and will regularly sanitize surfaces and use Plexiglass barriers at check-in.
• All CRCs will follow county and state requirements regarding COVID-19, including limits on the number of customers permitted indoors at any time.

 
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric energy companies in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with more than 23,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation's cleanest energy to 16 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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September 25, 2020
Updated Weather Forecast for Dry, Offshore Wind Event Means PG&E Might Need to Proactively Turn Off Power for Safety in Portions of 15 Counties 
 
As Scope of Weather Event Increases, PG&E Is Reaching Out to Additional Customers Who Might Be Impacted by the Public Safety Power Shutoff; Potentially 97,000 Total Customers 
 
 
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) continues to monitor a potentially strong and dry offshore wind event forecasted to start early Sunday morning and expected to last through Monday. Given the expected weather conditions, PG&E began its one-day advance notifications to customers in areas where PG&E may need to proactively turn power off for safety to reduce the risk of wildfire from energized power lines. 
 
The anticipated scope and timing of this event has changed from earlier announcements, based on updated weather forecasts that showed stronger wind gusts in a larger portion of PG&E’s service area.PG&E’s in-house meteorologists, as well as its Wildfire Safety Operation Center and Emergency Operations Center, continue to monitor conditions closely and additional notifications will be made today to customers who may be impacted by this event.
 
Potential Public Safety Power Shutoff on Sunday
The potential PSPS starting early Sunday morning could impact approximately 97,000 customers in portions of fifteen counties in the Northern Sierra and North Valley. Specifically, customers in portions of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Kern, Lake, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama and Yuba counties are being notified. The total customer impacts are currently projected to be as follows:
 
County
Customers impacted
Medical Baseline
Alpine
572
6
Amador
5,471
401
Butte
18,669
1,784
Calaveras
9,978
386
El Dorado
35,614
2,442
Kern
27
0
Lake
55
2
Napa
181
5
Nevada
7,345
438
Placer
9,657
609
Plumas
785
24
Shasta
2,816
241
Sierra
1,098
22
Tehama
1,223
58
Yuba
3,385
282
Total
96,876
6,700
 
Ongoing Customer Notifications
Customers can look up their address online to find out if their location is being monitored for the potential safety shutoff at www.pge.com/pspsupdates.  
 
Customer notifications—via text, email and automated phone call—began Thursday. Customers enrolled in the company’s Medical Baseline Program who do not verify that they have received these important safety communications will be individually visited in person by a PG&E employee when possible. A primary focus will be given to customers who rely on electricity for critical life-sustaining equipment.
 
 
September 25, 2020
Updated Weather Forecast for Dry, Offshore Wind Event Means PG&E Might Need to Proactively Turn Off Power for Safety in Portions of 15 Counties 
 
As Scope of Weather Event Increases, PG&E Is Reaching Out to Additional Customers Who Might Be Impacted by the Public Safety Power Shutoff; Potentially 97,000 Total Customers 
 
 
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) continues to monitor a potentially strong and dry offshore wind event forecasted to start early Sunday morning and expected to last through Monday. Given the expected weather conditions, PG&E began its one-day advance notifications to customers in areas where PG&E may need to proactively turn power off for safety to reduce the risk of wildfire from energized power lines. 
 
The anticipated scope and timing of this event has changed from earlier announcements, based on updated weather forecasts that showed stronger wind gusts in a larger portion of PG&E’s service area.PG&E’s in-house meteorologists, as well as its Wildfire Safety Operation Center and Emergency Operations Center, continue to monitor conditions closely and additional notifications will be made today to customers who may be impacted by this event.
 
Potential Public Safety Power Shutoff on Sunday
The potential PSPS starting early Sunday morning could impact approximately 97,000 customers in portions of fifteen counties in the Northern Sierra and North Valley. Specifically, customers in portions of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Kern, Lake, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama and Yuba counties are being notified. The total customer impacts are currently projected to be as follows:
 
County
Customers impacted
Medical Baseline
Alpine
572
6
Amador
5,471
401
Butte
18,669
1,784
Calaveras
9,978
386
El Dorado
35,614
2,442
Kern
27
0
Lake
55
2
Napa
181
5
Nevada
7,345
438
Placer
9,657
609
Plumas
785
24
Shasta
2,816
241
Sierra
1,098
22
Tehama
1,223
58
Yuba
3,385
282
Total
96,876
6,700
 
Ongoing Customer Notifications
Customers can look up their address online to find out if their location is being monitored for the potential safety shutoff at www.pge.com/pspsupdates.  
 
Customer notifications—via text, email and automated phone call—began Thursday. Customers enrolled in the company’s Medical Baseline Program who do not verify that they have received these important safety communications will be individually visited in person by a PG&E employee when possible. A primary focus will be given to customers who rely on electricity for critical life-sustaining equipment.