10/16/2026
Before you all start getting out the Porsches and Pitchforks to scold PGE, realize that if they hadn't done this, and the whole town got cremated, the survivors would be screaming, "How could PGE let this happen!" The signs were there! The humidity was low and there were squirrels farting near open flames!
PGE got sued to the tune of 25 billion dollars over other fires and they've decided that they won't let a disaster happen again. The fact that the wildfires they've had before that were attributed to their lines, were partly caused by environmental laws preventing maintenance, and property owners threatening their work crews to trim or remove trees seems to have gotten forgotten... They weren't clear cutting. They were preventing you from dying.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't....
