[EAS] No Power

[Mike McCarthy]

Once a wild fire starts and spreads, the cause and origin becomes
irrelevant to the event in progress. Those issues are for the event
postmortem.

It would seem natural anyone with a genny in those areas should have an
arc suppressed housing and exhaust, and be spaced such that anything which
does get out falls on non-flammable surface (stone, concrete, etc.)

Let me add I saw first hand a few years ago the aggressiveness of
wildfires while in North Cascades Park of Seattle. In this case, the fire
was triggered by lightning at the top of a mountain near Newhalen and it
slowly progressed down to the base and to the sides over the course of a
few days.

Then it erupted as fire curled around a mountain knife edge and roared
into the the valley along St. Rt. 20 at Newhalen on turbo-charged
compressed winds from the SW. The fire progressed through the river valley
at 1 mile per hour.....or a little under 100ft. per ****minute(!!)***  We
were nearly trapped by that fire at one of the generating stations in that
valley. Got out with a few minutes to spare and before it jumped the
river.

Seattle Light and Power scrambled as they get 20% of their power from the
three dams in that valley. But they only run 200KV lines to minimize the
risk of coronal arcing. Maybe PG&E should consider that too... More lines,
yes. But less energy to create sustaining long arcs.

MM

On Thu, October 10, 2019 2:47 pm, bdcst wrote:
> Well, those are house fires, not forest fires!