[Elecraft] (OT) Ca Fires

[Steve Boles]

Our son, who lives in Spokane Washington, is a wild land forest fire
fighter. He's on stand-by but has not yet been deployed to California this
time around. He has all sorts of stories he can tell about the lack of
forest management and the consequences of...
Steve
ARS: WB4SED

On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 8:14 PM Wes <wes_n7ws at triconet.org> wrote:

> I'm shocked to hear that PG&E would actually think to pay dividends to
> investors
> who put their money at risk.  The government of CA should put a stop to
> this
> capitalist idea. and turn the management over to the MVD or the bullet
> train people.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
> On 11/3/2019 12:04 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> > On 11/2/2019 7:05 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
> >> The power situation (especially in PG&E territory) is a different
> story, but
> >> one that's manageable.
> >
> > Really? You do realize that PG&E's distribution system has been badly
> > neglected for decades, and has long been an accident ready to happen.
> And most
> > of it is bare copper, making it more likely to start a fire. All because
> > management CHOSE not to maintain it, instead paying themselves big
> salaries
> > and bonuses, paying dividends to investors, and buying back stock. The
> result
> > is that correcting the problem requires a MASSIVE investment and a
> massive
> > amount of work that will takes decades to complete, and years to even
> begin!
> >
> > As to Elecraft - many of their employees live in areas that WERE
> affected by
> > the power shutoffs. Some are my neighbors. Our generators have gotten a
> lot of
> > running time in the past week or so.
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
>
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