After the Woolsey Fire: Community Resources

= 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” […]

The first real Santa Ana windstorms of this fall in Malibu were predicted to arrive Thursday night into Friday, with 50 mile per hour wind gusts predicted for the windiest mountain and canyon locations. Winds from the northwest were strong all week, blowing the scent of smoke from northwest of Santa Barbara into Malibu occasionally. They were predicted […]

We told you yesterday about three new cellphone facilities … proposed by Verizon for Pacific Coast Highway. The discussion was delayed for two weeks. Council member Bruce Silverstein said he did not have enough time to read and digest the hundreds of pages of background material …. supplied by the city staff last Thursday. Verizon […]