After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

= Santa Anas today … gusts to 35 on the beach possible … and it will be hot. = Malibu residents want a city manager from Malibu to run the city. = Only one problem … no one from Malibu wants the job. = Full speed in reverse for city plans to improve parking at […]

Power seems to be on across all of Malibu this morning … a day after hundreds of people spend part of the day yesterday in the dark. Last night’s scheduled Malibu city council meeting was cancelled due to the partial power outages … which were still affecting the Paradise Cove and Serra Estates areas at […]

= Rocks still falling on mountain and canyon roads this morning. = A gentle rain and mild winds is enough to again cripple the Malibu electric system. = SCE reacts by blaming the weather and advising to cal 911 if you see downed lines. = Last night’s power failures blew out the Malibu City Council […]

= High surf warning … from the west up to 7 feet today … up to 10 feet Sunday, = Malibu predicted to get more than an inch of rain during the day Monday. = The Santa Monica school board will wait … and let the state require Covid shots. = Alex Villanueva again thumbs […]

= Caltrans plans a 12 million dollar project to save PCH near Big Rock. = The highway … and our water supply … is slipping towards the ocean … = But there will be two years of construction … some of it at night. = The school board divorce battle is boiling up … so […]

Red Flag Warnings went up last Friday. And Malibu has a new ordinance .. a new city law … that allows the city to declare vulnerable high fire risk public lands off limits to entry. There are several places in Malibu where thickets are full of people … camping on public land. They were not […]

This article was corrected at 4:20 am Wed Oct 20 to properly refer to Ron Gales as an Edison Senior Advisor, not vice president.  Also, to add SCE’s new disclosure that a very small percentage of customers will be exempt from the rate change.  How can you tell when the first wet weather of the […]

= 70 degrees at Kanan Dume Tunnel 1 … 31 degrees in Malibu Canyon … at sunrise. = Santa Anas already gusting at higher elevations this morning. = Peak wind gusts of 35 miles per hour at the beaches …. maybe up to 50 in the mountains. = More turnover at the Planning Commission … […]

KBUU Newswire Thursday Oct 14 = That burned-out bus on PCH is still there … but it has been pushed out of the way and traffic is much better. = Santa Anas arrive tonight … Red Flag level winds will arrive tomorrow morning. = Wind gusts up to 45 miles an hour predicted for tomorrow […]

And it appears that Edison has sent out wrong information … about your power bills.  And if you follow the advice on the mailer … it could lead to a substantial increase in your electric bills. Southern California Edison has sent out mailers to some customers who have switched over to a “Time Of Use” […]