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This is not a United States problem, this is a California problem.

The poorly maintained power infrastructure is due to a poorly regulated monopoly placing shareholder returns over delivering safe and reliable infrastructure to its customers. Arguably a California problem since the regulation is mostly at a state level.

The drought, above average heat, and likely the dry late season winds which are huge contributors to this problem are due to global warming which is symptom of a global problem which the United States government refuses to address.

I believe there are some dams in California that are in severe disrepair caused from years of spending money in all the wrong paces.

united | yo͞oˈnīdəd | adjective joined together politically, for a common purpose, or by common feelings

What's the point of this comment? GP's point was that this issue is limited to California, and is not a broader issue with US infrastructure.

Problems in states are problems in the United States. I would say particularly so when concerning mismanagement of public resources entrusted to private management.

California, you know the rest of us still love you, but sometimes you're a bit crazy. Sometimes you're crazy in a good way, sometimes you're crazy in a bad way, and sometimes it's hard to tell, but here's a situation where you might want to return to the fold. Nobody else is having giant, regular blackouts.

yeah i said its a joke.

is it? I live in California and I can no longer count know how many times visitors have come to California and been completely perplexed at how “third world” parts of it are

Including people from some extremely impoverished countries

So rolling blackouts from a series of poorly thought out policies is very congruent

yeah i live east of sacramento in the mountains. I'm in the zone thats had the most hours of power cut by PG&E.

The state is falling apart. Its changed so much in the last 20 years. I would rather the Sierra Nevadas be part of Nevada and let the bay area and LA leave us alone.

I live in SF and have said that too many parts of it seem like a third world country.

The biggest shame is how much money there is in the Bay Area and how many (already solved problems) exist here.

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