{"id":1227,"date":"2008-12-22T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2008-12-26T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T23:29:15","slug":"blackout-hits-tomale-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Blackout hits Tomales Bay area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1226\" title=\"100_1174.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/100_1174.jpg\" alt=\"100_1174.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><strong>Tomales Bay area residents tonight coped with a several-hour blackout that hit at 7 p.m<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Members of a utility crew show up tonight at the PG&amp;E substation in Olema (right &amp; below). Even after the probable cause of the blackout was found, utility workers still had to systematically test a variety of electrical equipment before turning the power back on<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Affected by the blackout were: Olema, Inverness Park, Inverness, Point Reyes Station, and Marshall. Most residents got power back at 10:50 p.m. but a few not until almost midnight.<\/p>\n<p>PG&amp;E workers at the substation told this blog they first suspected an animal might have caused a short, but no animal remains were found, and further investigations led them to suspect a regulator had failed.<\/p>\n<p>This was hardly the first time there have been problems at the Olema substation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In 2004, a lightning bolt struck a transformer<\/strong>, blacking out roughly the same area as this evening.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And back in 1976, the New World Liberation Front bombed the substation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1225\" title=\"pge-truck-gate.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/pge-truck-gate.jpg\" alt=\"pge-truck-gate.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>The bomb merely blew a hole in a transformer&#8217;s coolant tank, but coolant then drained from it for several hours, causing the transformer to eventually overheat and shut down.<\/p>\n<p>It took workers most of a day to get the substation running again, and while this was going on, I happened to wander into Cheda&#8217;s Market, which was located where the Whale of a Deli is today.<\/p>\n<p>Edna Petroni was working at the checkout counter, and she was thoroughly miffed at these domestic terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The trouble with people like that,&#8221; she said indignantly, &#8220;is that they don&#8217;t think about those of us who have freezers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomales Bay area residents tonight coped with a several-hour blackout that hit at 7 p.m. Members of a utility crew show up tonight at the PG&amp;E substation in Olema (right &amp; below). Even after the probable cause of the blackout was found, utility workers still had to systematically test a variety of electrical equipment before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-inverness","category-point-reyes-station"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}