Here are some pics I took today for you of my local area. All the electric cables are underground and are a minimal fire risk. Between substations the voltage is at 11 kvolts 3 phase to keep the conductors at a minimal size. The beach where the Earth moving equipment used to be a favourite of the Royals, Winston Churchill, loads of others. What they are doing is scooping up all the stones, with a fair bit of sand mixed in and moving it about a mile and a half down the beach. There is an excess of stones at this point, and a shortage at the dumping point further down the beach. The people down there live in mobile homes we call "caravan sites".
Next, the action of the wind & waves will move the stones over a period of time back to the place where they are being scooped up today. If we get winter storms, all those stones will get moved back in an hour or two, plus loads more on occasion. The power of the sea is way more then anything man can counter.
It costs ££millions££ to move those stones every year. The area is popular though and attracts tourists. I help pay for those stones to be moved through my property taxes. More money is spent on individual contractors keeping the beaches clean as they walk the beaches very early in the morning cleaning up all the chit that some people leave behind.
No doubt if the area had above ground electric cables, and there was a fire risk, and every one was sitting in the dark with no electricity, with even the gas stations unable to pump gas, these guys would be fixing those things instead... fact is they don't need to.... already done.
Some might think it's a complete waste of money moving all the stones several times a year. But it's the same as John Maynard Keynes idea of putting £5 pound notes into bottles and burying them in disused mines to be recovered... except we get a nice groomed beach out of it. It provides work to all sorts of people and secondary businesses, and its better then having people live in tent cities and allowing the country to burn with wild fires and pretending that nothing can be afforded to fix any of the problems.
We do have some people living in tents though. Our current government run by Boris & co seem to think the economy will run much better if we have a lot more people living in tents with access to zero services. I don't know why he thinks that... I actually think he is a dumbass and needs to be voted out of office.
I hope the good people of California get to fix at least some of their problems. I used to live their once and it should be a nice place to live. Some people who live there have some strange ideas how a community functions though.
The weather is cyclic... that has been well known for a long time. Jeremy Corbyn brother (Piers Corbyn) knows this and makes lots of money predicting the weather and the climate. Jeremy Corbyn says we need to fight climate change, but he has to say that because too many people are currently misinformed by the Bilderbeggers, the IPCC, and their ilk.
Such is life.
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