NorCal Storm Watch 8/17/2021

[getakey]

My SW got activated due to Red Flag Warning in NWS and PW charged from grid this morning
PG&E is also warning about PSPS for about 40,000 Customers. I'm not in that warning area

 

[bmah]

Stormwatch is active for me (Lamorinda area, East Bay, in or close to the area for the Red Flag Warning).

I sometimes wonder if it'd be better to have a single thread for all the Stormwatch news / discussion in a region (NorCal, SoCal, etc.) rather than starting a new thread for every activation.

Bruce.

 

[jboy210]

SW on down in the TriValley. I manually turned it off since the sun is keeping the powerwalls full.

 

[jboy210]

Stormwatch is active for me (Lamorinda area, East Bay, in or close to the area for the Red Flag Warning).

I sometimes wonder if it'd be better to have a single thread for all the Stormwatch news / discussion in a region (NorCal, SoCal, etc.) rather than starting a new thread for every activation.

Bruce.

I like having the date and locale of the event in the title. My 2 cents. Maybe a sticky thread by region?

 

[jjrandorin]

Stormwatch is active for me (Lamorinda area, East Bay, in or close to the area for the Red Flag Warning).

I sometimes wonder if it'd be better to have a single thread for all the Stormwatch news / discussion in a region (NorCal, SoCal, etc.) rather than starting a new thread for every activation.

Bruce.

My own thought on this is, they dont really overrun the subforum like some repeated topics do, and as long as there is a date in the subject like, the separate threads are a helpful reminder for people in that area to take a look at their own equipment and "plan accordingly" as it were.

Certainly open for other thoughts, from you or anyone else who may have an opinion on grouping these together vs leaving them separate.

 

[GJones]

Napa is an identified red flag area starting the evening of Aug 17. Stormwatch activated at 6am in Napa.

 

[h2ofun]

Storm watch is also on for Auburn, but I have it turned off to use solar to charge batteries

 

[holeydonut]

Lol I think you need a sticky thread for red flag warnings since we're like 100% always in a red flag warning somewhere now-a-days. If someone asks "where is the red flag warning?", the answer is "yes".

USA's colors are red, white, and blue since the red flag warning covers like 50% of the area West of the Rockies. And the maritime Red flag warning for Hurricanes covers the rest of the country. (yes this is hyperbole)

The white is just the ash and smoke filling the sky.

The blue is the tears that build up when you open that climate change denial thread and see people who still think it's all fake news and a hoax to drum up some views.

 

[holeydonut]

Storm watch is also on for Auburn, but I have it turned off to use solar to charge batteries

The haze (which I can't tell if it's cloudcover or smoke) is preventing me from being able to refill my batteries with solar today. Sad.

 

[jboy210]

Storm watch is also on for Auburn, but I have it turned off to use solar to charge batteries

When I saw that Storm Watch was on my first thought was "I am paying PG&E to charge my batteries on a sunny day!! Nooo!!!!"

 

[h2ofun]

When I saw that Storm Watch was on my first thought was "I am paying PG&E to charge my batteries on a sunny day!! Nooo!!!!"

After this happened to me once, I turned it off

 

[h2ofun]

The haze (which I can't tell if it's cloudcover or smoke) is preventing me from being able to refill my batteries with solar today. Sad.

With the amount of AC I have been using, if I did not have the extra panels I put on, with the reduction from smoke, I actually the other day would have used more than I could produced.

 

[jboy210]

After this happened to me once, I turned it off

I turned it off yesterday AM, and then back on after 10 PM just to top off. Turned it off when I got up today at 6 AM. It is haze as heck, but the sun is out and topped off PWs by 8:30.

 

[holeydonut]

With the amount of AC I have been using, if I did not have the extra panels I put on, with the reduction from smoke, I actually the other day would have used more than I could produced.

Can you plz install that powerpack, some windmills, and some geothermal thing out on the lake? I want to see the most hardened home setup in California that can withstand Skynet gaining consciousness.

 

[jboy210]

Can you plz install that powerpack, some windmills, and some geothermal thing out on the lake? I want to see the most hardened home setup in California that can withstand Skynet gaining consciousness.

Maybe he can mine some crypto with all that extra power. Supposedly someplace in Europe bought a hydro dam and a lake to do that.

 

[holeydonut]

The red flags are everywhere ️

 

[slcasner]

That looks more like a magenta warning.