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Utilities Commission Denies SDG&E's Power Cutoff Plan -- Leaving an Out
Your missing the big picture. To fix the problem you need to address the problem. you need to give SDG & E options like for instance 1. If a fire starts they need access to the facilities to put the fire out. This is the second lap people are fire departments do not have the capabilities of putting out large forest fires they are set up for small home fires. 2. Let them have military access to equipment and personnel that fight fires in any weather conditions. Remmember the five c130's that would drop fire retartedent a 1/4 mile in on stroke sent from north carolina ? The politics prevented them from being used in the fire they where diverted to los angeles. 3. We need to end the politics and old methods of forest fire fighting and get the taxpayers equipment out there fast. The military which is paid by the taxpayer defends the taxpayer can react alot faster and alot cheaper than the fire departments. 4. Don't blame sdg&e for providing services what about lighting strikes going to sue the weather stations or airspace ? 5. If the public knew the military would be called in to put out large fires. I predict most the fires would not happen in the first place. I see alot of companies that "depend" on yearly fires for income if this ends so will the fires. 6. These fires showed a second time that politics to make everyone happy costs billions to the taxpayers its time for a change in methods. We don't need all these fire stations we already pay for the worlds largest everyday. I saved forty homes with a garden hose lost one of the largest in the trails in rancho bernardo that fire cost me millions and to find out that politics & old procedurers prevented that fire from being put out in less than four hours irrates me to no end. You can put solar on the homes in the less than ten percent nieghborhoods the cost of all this bickering probly would pay for it we are putting 5000 watt systems in for less than 1.67 a watt rightnow thats after rebates. Before the cost is 4.45 a watt before the rebates. Go green— September 15, 2009 10:16 a.m.
I-15’s Landscape Skinny
Drought tolerant ? Look at the picture see the iceplant ? Is it native ? This is the most water guzzling plantings I have every seen . Why dont you go out thier when the sprinklers are on its like a rainshower and most of them have been on during the day. Lets try colored gravel around the pine trees and drip on the trees . We live in a desert. This is typical no one seems to adjust the contracts to the areas conditions. Pure waste and maintenace nightmare. Las vegas has it right your doing seventy mph down the freeway do you stop to checkout the landscaping ? Do you hire landscapers to work on a freeway and put thier lives at risk to take care of sprinklers and iceplant ? or do you add a dryscape design that satisfies the erosion requirements and looks good and saves lives. Actions speak louder than words IF there is a water shortage CALTRANS needs to tell the FEDS to stop the waste of water I would rather they landscape the parks instead of the freeways you can at least stop and enjoy it and have lunch with your families safely.— September 15, 2009 3:14 a.m.
Nine sinking San Diego County cities
To the Cities privatize your libraries and your services they can be more efficently run by private companies than the Cities. 1. We do not pay previaling wages 2. We do not have a ridiculous retirement plan. 3. We cut jobs when the market is slow " The Cities drag employee cuts out forever if your down forty percent you cut forty percent. don't let the labor unions control the Cities it will only get worse. 4. Our insurance costs are ALOT lower than the Cities. 5. We use volunteers there free. As far as contracting out services. I would like to see the prebid lists and all services that have been really sub-out. Post it City of San Diego. I have seen nothing this was voted on three years ago. Lets show some lists have to see it to believe it— September 15, 2009 2:59 a.m.
Nine sinking San Diego County cities
Not to dampen the Cities pleas for funds. But if the Cities went to thier City development departments and said hey why haven't any of these multimillion and billion dollar construction projects been permitted yet?. Lets take Chula Vista Can we say billion dollar bay front project 100 acres plus still in limbo land ? Its been years .Get it started Chula Vista and your deficit is gone. Lakeside what about the 800 acre development project in the mountians all the infrastructure is in including roads we would like to start building the 200 ranch home custom estates. Hmm being held up for grading plan for each pad ? HELLO you already graded in the roads,sewers, fire hydrants its all paved already I think its time to cut out the delays and get the money and jobs flowing. Every City I reviewed I can easily save them twice the money there short this year with just a few easy steps in commonsense. The City of San diego ask yourself why is the school district spending 362,000 on mitigating a dry creek bed on miramar road when the cedar fire burned through it four years ago and its naturally restoring itself ? This is a waste of school funds . I think the nature rule is let nature take its course. Agian , Lets take business licensing in the Cities. The city of San diego just did a solar map of all registered solar installations in commercial and residential areas. You know why not even half the companies installing them have the business licenses in the perspective City. So here you have the contract costs and the person who installed them go after your tax money. You need to look deep into the construction market and stop the companies from allowing to pay sub-contractors under the "piece work plan ". Big builders are sticking to the Cities by piece working projects they don't contribute to anything in a W-2. The sub barely makes minimum wage if that usally no workmens comp,edd,sdi,fed,state,city taxes are paid . If the Cities did the same type of mapping they do for solar on construction permits they could collect millions of dollars from subs and contractors and owner builders who dont pay any of these taxes or insurances. Everyone knows construction is a multi-billion dollar industry tap it Cities . The only way your going to get the money is go after it. In conclusion ,to stimulate your pocket books you need to create jobs. To do that you sometimes need to get rid of the red tape and start the projects.Cities put your foot down and push them thru. Look around people every tree, plant has been planted by a developer and watered by one if you stop development everything will dry up and die. If you don't believe me go to the museums and look in the history books. There are pictures of the way it was.— September 15, 2009 2:35 a.m.
Dam Leaks
Sounds like some friend is being employed agian.Why do you need a survey on a dam that every five years overflows the spillway for a whole year ? . If it can handle that pressure its not leaking. It sounds like a excuse to drain the lake down agian and pump the water to oliveinhiems dam. Someones clueless what do you think of the eleven million dollar footbridge built over a soon to be dry lake bed? Since it was only eight feet deep when the dam was full they could of easly put a raised road across it with some drain pipe. Take the enviromentalists lets let the trees grow in a drinking water lake thats was smart. thier already asking for twenty million to clean that up. Really we need a state and City commonsense board to reject all these waste of money ideas . They wouldn't have a budget problem if they ruled on commonsense. To fix the lake just drian it down and bulldoze out the trees no need for a study its a lake for drinking water not trees.— September 15, 2009 1:42 a.m.
Stripped
Surfpuppy I know what the girls make check the parking lot. Sometimes they adverage on a bad nite $500.00. A good nite and a double over a grand talk to the girls who been in it for over 5 years or more with masters and bachelors degrees. There far from stupid they just get pissed at men for acting like jerks instead of being normal gentlemen. If you go into a club you may want to shower first and put on clean clothes dress nice you will get alot of attention. Just spend what you can afford and have a good time . Anybody that runs out on the tab will eventually pay it they all do .— August 30, 2009 7:17 p.m.
Stripped
Surfpuppy ? A loser makes six fiqures a year ? Thats more than most doctors make. Thats what the adverage girl/stripper makes. The clubs are places to get your mind off of work and have fun with the one you choose to have fun with. You pay either way play the dating games or going out downtown they all want money. Times are hard the goverment is destroying the free market . When you deal with this all day its nice to go relax a little and be petted. Women have a eunique power. The men are providers " the hunters ". Women soothe the men after a long hard day of hunting. It helps balance the day . Theres times when I visit thier may be a billion dollars or more in net worth sitting in one club at any given time . If Sanders needs money for improvements he may think of asking us we make money 24/7. These guys just ran out on the check happens at every resturant and club in town we basically take down the license number on there car and id and prosecute and collect trust me we collect the money that we have no problem doing anywhere.— August 30, 2009 10:53 a.m.