“Public safety power shutoffs” rolled into a second day on Thursday, with PG&E saying the outages could last up to five days.
Amid the explosively dry hills of the Bay Area where the slightest spark could spell disaster, I felt grateful for widespread power outages in the name of extreme caution.
PG&E is doing a good thing, for once.
But then I remembered PG&E’s stock dividends at the expense of tree pruning and was enraged once more.
Separated from a bungling corporation, I still think a little mandatory unplugging once in a while can be good thing.
