why was this flagged? come on, someone is trying to mess with me.
This flagging does seem out of line. Factual posts with no flaming should be respected.
Power Outage at Stanford University
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Re: Power Outage at Stanford University
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
I blame their lack of upgrading the grid or even performing trivial routine maintenance. Do you know that ~all of Palo Alto can be knocked offline by breaking one line? This line happens to be under the flight path at the airport in the baylands and it got hit by a plane before. Whole city, no power, whole day. In the intervening years was an auxiliary line into the city built? What do you suppose?
Most of SF's water and power also is under that flight path. PAO should be shut down as it's an environmental disaster and has caused lead poisoning to the surrounding community.
The lead is in all avgas. The solution there is for the FAA to allow unleaded avgas, not to shut down all aviation.
PAO used to be located on what is now El Cameno a couple blocks north of Page Mill. Between Stanford Ave and Serra St. The area is called Escondido Village today.
Eventually more and more people moved near there despite knowing there was a noisy airport there first. Then they complained about noise and caused the airport to relocate to its current baylands location.
Re: Power Outage at Stanford University
#23Oh, one of the leading academic institutions of the leading industry nation of the world has no electricity?
A problem with sustainability possibly? On various levels I'd say.
The Roman Empire fell and history will repeat itself. Not necessarily during our lifetime, but good news from the US seem to have become rare during the last 10-20 years.
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#24From the NBC news: Stanford University cancelled summer session classes Wednesday following ongoing power outages in the area. According to the university, the power outages were a consequence of the Edgewood Fire burning in San Mateo County. "Due to yesterday’s fire in the Emerald Hills area, the main Stanford campus lost the power supplied by PG&E’s main transmission line to the campus. PG&E is providing a limited…
The PG&E grid isn’t designed properly if the failure of one transmission line causes an outage like this. I live in New York City and pay some of the highest rates in the country for electricity, but over the past 10 years (including multiple hurricanes), I’ve had less than 10 minutes of downtime, and even that was only on one of three phases.
That's cheery picking the data though. NYC lost power for two days in 2003, just like everyone else who doesn't pay those high rates.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of SF's water and power also is under that flight path. PAO should be shut down as it's an environmental disaster and has caused lead poisoning to the surrounding community.
The lead is in all avgas. The solution there is for the FAA to allow unleaded avgas, not to shut down all aviation. PAO used to be located on what is now El Cameno a couple blocks north of Page Mill. Between Stanford Ave and Serra St. The area is called Escondido Village today. Eventually more and more people moved near there despite knowing there was a noisy airport there first. Then they complained about noise and…
PAO is technically on wetlands and was moved to its location because at the time the black community nearby didn’t get a say in San Mateo’s planning.
The same black community who was not allowed to buy a house in Palo Alto.
https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/06/28/un-forgetting-the...
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
The lead is in all avgas. The solution there is for the FAA to allow unleaded avgas, not to shut down all aviation. PAO used to be located on what is now El Cameno a couple blocks north of Page Mill. Between Stanford Ave and Serra St. The area is called Escondido Village today. Eventually more and more people moved near there despite knowing there was a noisy airport there first. Then they complained about noise and…
PAO is technically on wetlands and was moved to its location because at the time the black community nearby didn’t get a say in San Mateo’s planning. The same black community who was not allowed to buy a house in Palo Alto. https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/06/28/un-forgetting-the...
https://www.pastheritage.org/Articles/AMEZionMF.html
You mean this black community inside Palo Alto 3 blocks from downtown?
Your link opens with an anecdote that takes place on "the east side of Palo Alto". This is what people who don't know the area think when they hear the name of the city of East Palo Alto. The city that clearly sits to the north not the east of Palo Alto.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
PAO is technically on wetlands and was moved to its location because at the time the black community nearby didn’t get a say in San Mateo’s planning. The same black community who was not allowed to buy a house in Palo Alto. https://paloaltoonline.com/news/2020/06/28/un-forgetting-the...
https://www.pastheritage.org/Articles/AMEZionMF.html You mean this black community inside Palo Alto 3 blocks from downtown? Your link opens with an anecdote that takes place on "the east side of Palo Alto". This is what people who don't know the area think when they hear the name of the city of East Palo Alto. The city that clearly sits to the north not the east of Palo Alto.
Quote Directly from your article in respect to the city of Palo Alto.
“From 1925 to 1950 most racial discrimination was insidious, in the form of residential subdivision covenants banning persons of color.”
Re: Power Outage at Stanford University
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.pastheritage.org/Articles/AMEZionMF.html You mean this black community inside Palo Alto 3 blocks from downtown? Your link opens with an anecdote that takes place on "the east side of Palo Alto". This is what people who don't know the area think when they hear the name of the city of East Palo Alto. The city that clearly sits to the north not the east of Palo Alto.
Quote Directly from your article in respect to the city of Palo Alto. “From 1925 to 1950 most racial discrimination was insidious, in the form of residential subdivision covenants banning persons of color.”
Oh yes. For sure. Didn't mean to imply that wasn't happening.