Poten­tial­ly up to 600 thou­sand cal­i­for­nia res­i­dents could be with­out pow­er soon.

You may have seen on the news the sto­ries about the pow­er com­pa­ny PG&E turn­ing off pow­er in the event that wind might top­ple a pow­er line and acci­dent­ly cause a fire.

Yes, in the event that wind cre­ates a con­di­tion that might acci­dent­ly swirl around a tram­po­line in some­one’s back­yard pick that tram­po­line up and then hurl it toward a pow­er line which has some­how man­aged to become so frail that it might cause the tram­po­line to catch fire then slow­ly return to the earth where it might acci­den­tal­ly cause a dog house to catch fire…

Ok, well that is just one sce­nario where wind might cause some unre­lat­ed third par­ty to cre­ate con­di­tions where some­thing might hap­pen.

I know what you might be think­ing here, don’t insur­ance com­pa­nies have a thing where all they have to do to get out of pay­ing for a claim is to say it was an act of God.

Well yes they do and I might add they are mas­ters at doing this…

But in california well things are different.

Want to know why the power company is shutting off power?

This is why…

PG&E reach­es $11 bil­lion set­tle­ment with Cal­i­for­nia wild­fire insur­ers

You read that cor­rect­ly and that is why peo­ple are with­out elec­tric­i­ty because of law­suits and believe it or not these law­suits are pop­ping up all over the USA.

Pacif­ic Gas & Elec­tric has reached an $11 bil­lion set­tle­ment with a group of insur­ers that will cov­er most of the claims from wild­fires in Cal­i­for­nia in 2017 and 2018.

The util­i­ty said in a state­ment the ten­ta­tive agree­ment cov­ers 85% of the insur­ance claims from fires that includ­ed the Camp Fire, which dec­i­mat­ed the town of Par­adise and killed 86 peo­ple.

A group of insur­ers said in a sep­a­rate state­ment the set­tle­ment is well below the $20 bil­lion the insur­ance com­pa­nies had sought in bank­rupt­cy court.

So you think that all of these law­suits have no con­se­quences?

Some­one always pays the bill and in many cas­es it is not the state or the insur­ance com­pa­nies it is almost always the peo­ple who end up pay­ing the piper.

So to all those unfor­tu­nate peo­ple in cal­i­for­nia who con­tin­ue to elect democ­rats who end up cre­at­ing an envi­ron­ment where fool­ish law­suits can be levied on util­i­ty com­pa­nies (when clear­ly it was an act of God) (being face­tious here) yes that is a word, look it up…

Next up … States that sue to get mon­ey from com­pa­nies that had noth­ing to do with the prob­lems they are being sued over…

What hap­pens to all that mon­ey?