How is this even possible? How out of data are the infrastructures here? IN CA? This will only prompt more attacks in the future if this wasn't deliberate. Rolling blackouts when?There remains only an incomplete explanation from PG&E as to how and why this outage began or became so widespread. We know about the substation fire, but that does not explain outages on the west side that began hours before that on Saturday.And as we discussed Sunday, a very similar widespread outage that impacted around one-third of the city occurred on December 20, 2003, which was also a Saturday, and which was also blamed on a fire at the same substation at 8th and Mission."They call it a catastrophic fire and an incident I've been told they've only seen 2-3 times in decades," Mayor Daniel Lurie said, speaking to ABC 7. "There's a lot of questions that I have."Perennial PG&E critic Tim Redmond, editor of 48 Hills, is once again calling for the utility to be kicked out of the city, saying this is "long, long overdue.""Now an old transformer caught fire, and the company didn’t have the resiliency to avoid a blackout that impacted a third of the city," Redmond writes. "Now the case for public power is more clear than ever, and it’s time the supes hold a hearing on where the process is, what the next steps are, and how to move forward.">>https://sfist.com/2025/12/22/pg-e-blames-catastrophic-incident/>>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/22/san-francisco-power-outage-waymo-blackout/87880263007/
>>524134096There was a fire
>>524134096What kind of clusterfuck happened here?
>>524134096Colts trying to delay the inevitable.
>>524134096there is something shady going on they are not telling peopleits not one transformer blowingI would bet it has something to do with the metcalf substation attack that happened a decade ago>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
>>524134192A fire still with no explanation as to how it shut down a 1/3 of the city, other than the safety requirements and response weren't up to snuff. I think I see "Great Fire of San Francisco" on the horizon.
>>524134096Paris gets free power and San Francisco gets AI-driven blackouts. Awesome. Thank you, jews.
>>524134453>cascading failure is a domino effect where the initial outage of one component (like a transmission line or transformer) pushes nearby parts beyond their capacity, causing them to fail, triggering more failures in a chain reaction that can lead to widespread blackouts
>>524134453probably incredible amounts of government safety rules etc. Plus, electric grids can be weird like this in how a fault or disconnect in one place can mean power out for areas that dont at first seem logical.
>>524134583yeah, thats what i was thinking of thanks.
>>524134096Get ready for Christmas and tons of rain in CA, whenever cali wali gets a downpour some systems go down either electric or internet.
>>524134096>just buy an electric car bro>just replace the most powerful device that most people own with something that runs on the struggling power grid bro trust me bro
>>524134096somebody else figured out they can hack into hell by biting the power cables
>>524134364Goddamn PG&E are giving me Chinatown vibesAlso had me thinking about an old memory hole>>https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/nashville/news/fbi-releases-report-on-nashville-bombing
