Don’t you just love it when Edison chooses to shut off your power out of fear that a blown-down powerline could spark another deadly wildfire? I’ve mentioned time and again that it’s time for Edison to bury their dang powerlines.
So, I called up Southern California Edison to complain and asked them when the power was going to come back on. Some sort of robot answered and suggested that I go online to file a complaint. Give me a break, how the heck am I supposed to go online when I have no power and no WiFi?
I could just scream….Screeeeeeech!
Then they phone me at 5 a.m. to tell me there could be what they call a PSPS (Public Safety Power Shutoff) sometime in the next four hours and, sure enough, the power goes out at 3:45 a.m. Here we go again… I could just scream. “Calm down, honey,” sez the Missus. So, what am I supposed to do? She sez, “Well, now that we’re wide awake, we could dance.” Oh, sure, we could run wild in the middle of the night.
I wanna dance in the dark, come on we gonna light up the night, come on I wanna dance in the dark, we gonna light up the night. If you don’t dance, make sure you got the rhythm, make sure your heartbeat beats with the rhythm, I wanna run wild in the middle of the night, right under the moon, bodies glowing in the night… (“Dancing in the Dark – Rihanna – 2015)
As it turns out, it wasn’t a PSPS after all. It was what Edison calls an outage. So, I called them again to find out when the outage would be over and some kind of android told me that their crews are working hard to remedy the problem, but that they can’t do it right now because it’s dark outside. No duh!
So, I called to complain the next morning and told them where they can stick it. What I mean is that they need to stick their destructive powerlines underground. They said, “No way, it costs too much.”
Yes, it will cost a whole bunch; just keep in mind that PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) shelled out $10 billion during the last five years, since burning down the Northern California town of Paradise in the 2020 Camp Fire. So, put that in your pipe and smoke it! But do they care? No, not much, because the spineless Public Utilities Commission granted PG&E a rate increase and sent the bill to the company’s ratepayers. Meanwhile, company executives are said to be dancing in the dark…
I wanna dance in the dark, come on we gonna light up the night.
Keep it flyin’,
Uncle Mott
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