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by bushbaba 1461 days ago
I wouldn't be so quick to blame PGE's lack of maintenance on global warming. The PGE lines by me are nearing 75 years old. Electrical poles just doesn't last 100s of years and it is nearing it's end of life.

EVs, Heat Pumps, and Electric Stoves only put additional pressure on an antiquated grid.
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Fatnino 1461 days ago
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?

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bushbaba 1461 days ago
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.
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Fatnino 1461 days ago
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.

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bushbaba 1461 days ago
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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Fatnino 1461 days ago
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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bushbaba 1460 days ago
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.”
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