KBUU Newswire Thurs Aug 2: Edison Explains Plans For Malibu Blackouts, Public Reacts With Worries Of Heatstrokes, Fires, Car Crashes
Written by 991KBU on August 2, 2018
This is KBUU News. The headlines:
- = Edison officials Southern California might have 2 …might have 10 intentional power blackouts in Santa Anas this year.
- = Malibu residents predict chaos … and maybe even elderly people dying … if air conditioning is cut off in extreme heat.
- = The state is OK with the blackouts … as utility companies spend a million dollars month lobbying them.
- = Industrial movie making continues in Puerco Canyon wilderness park.
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Southern California Edison officials appeared before the Malibu public safety commission yesterday … and gave the first explanation of their plans to black out the city when severe winds threaten.
And Malibu residents protested the plan.
Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/sce-plans-for-wind-blackouts/
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Industrial scale moviemaking returned to a wilderness park in Malibu yesterday.
Residents of Puerco Canyon in were horrified to see huge trucks … buses and equipment hauled up the narrow switchback road … owned by the City of Malibu … that accesses the James Cameron wilderness Park.
Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/movie-trucks-hog-the-trail/
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Los Angeles county has figured out why hundreds of Malibu voters where ousted from the voting rolls in the June primary election.
Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/vote-fiasco-traced-to-software/
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In news from down the coast … Newport Beach has clipped Bird’s wings.
The Coast Pilot newspaper reports the electric scooter dropped off at least 50 of its two-wheeled vehicles on the Balboa Peninsula last weekend.
As usual… Bird gave no notice and pulled no permits.
The city issued a cease and desist letter.
Newport Beach is now Bird free.
Not so Santa Monica … and we have seen the birds migrating up PCH.
It’s only a matter of time.
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Weather for the Malibu …
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It appears that Malibu had the all-time hottest July in recorded history.
The National Weather Service does not keep that statistic for Malibu.
But nearby Camarillo checks in with a day and night average of 75 degrees for the month of July.
That’s a record.
And at 78 degrees … it almost tied th erecord at UCLA.
Records were set elsewhere along the LA County coast as well
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It will be (((( sunny )))) today … highs (((( 77 )))) beaches … (((( 96 )))) mountains and canyons.
Winds will be strong.
Downcoast winds … ((( 25 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 7:54 )))).
After that … ((( patchy fog )))) tonight … low (((( 66 )))) beaches … (((( 67 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( about the same. )))).
Right now … at Trancas it’s (((( 71 )))) degrees.
In upper Malibu Canyon … (((( 78 )))) .
And at Civic Center Los Angeles … (((( 79 )))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( 66 )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves have a little bit of a pulse … )))) feet high ….
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Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( Low tide is at 7:29 AM
High tide … 4.3 feet … at 2:16 this afternoon.
Another low tide will hit at 8:15 tonight. ))))
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