The Golden State Today

When I was growing up, I thought of California as some sort of beacon to the world.  There was nothing that couldn't be accomplished in this state.  Now we can't even keep the lights on, according to this email I received today from my electric company:

As an extreme and unprecedented heat wave deepens, SMUD and all grid operators across the state are using every available means to avoid rotating outages in the early evening hours. SMUD asks customers to limit their use of electricity from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. This aligns with Governor Newsom’s state of emergency order and the California Independent System Operator’s extended series of Flex alerts.

The #1 way to conserve energy is to set your thermostat to 80oF or higher.

Residential customers can help by raising thermostat settings on air conditioners to 80oF, limiting the use of major appliances and turning off unnecessary lights. Commercial and industrial customers can reduce the use of lighting not essential for safety purposes in garages, hallways, lobbies, warehouses and displays. The minimized use of office equipment, supply and exhaust fans, circulating pumps and maintenance and repair equipment will also allow us to lower demand for electricity. We'll exhaust every avenue before rotating outages are called. This includes procuring power on the open market, activating our voluntary Air Conditioning Load Management program and calling on commercial customers who have previously agreed to reduce consumption.  Should rotating outages become necessary, impacted customers will be given as much advance notice as possible, and no customer will be out of power for more than approximately one hour. We'd rotate outages by sections until the emergency is over. No section will be repeated until all 39 sections have been cycled through. You can learn which section you're in at smud.org/RotatingOutage.

Find your rotating outage section

How are those wind turbines and solar panels doing?  Why do we only have one nuclear power plant left in the state, and the governor had to sign legislation to prolong its life?  Why do we have to import so much of our electricity into this Democratic People's Republik?

Are other one-party states run this poorly?  Remember that the governor was mayor of a city that has its own online map of where there's human poop on the streets and sidewalks.  There's an app for that, too.  I'm quite serious in asking this:  is there any part of California's government that's well run?

Fast becoming a Third World hellhole.