CA County Warn People to Shelter in Place Because of Tesla Megapack Battery Fire
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So, it’s PG&E now trying to boost their base (non-cyclic) power supply but I suspect that it is not extreme charge/discharge cycle to be the culprit but probably the consumer load as being too excessive and overbearing on this facility.
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-has-rel...
However, the quote about the California Highway Patrol at the bottom is not accidental or naive. There is a security response in California that is being implemented, whereby homeowners and private property owners are geofenced via their phones and other means, and the State of California has broad discretion on how far, and for how long, these emergency responses go on.
In other words, road closure was the old tool of the old Calif. Highway Patrol. But the new tools of individual GPS tracking via phone and vehicle, banning entrance and exit to very large areas, for broadly varying amounts of time, is being seized by emergency response agencies in the new times.
What is the proof of this? Two things from public sources.. One is the Mayor of a California town near Monterey actually, at a CalFIRE public briefing during an emergency, asking sheepishly how long the road closure to his entire town will be in effect, and the abrupt reply of the Highway Patrol officer on camera "it could be six months" .. Secondly, a website that shows new safety perimeters with status, that are very large (portions of a county) and did not exist as such previously.
ask Charlie Crocker at ZoneHaven and see what he says, on the public record
public money in emergency response means accountability and lawful transparency, particularly if you want to run for President of the United States, Governor Newsom.
And again: what does any of this have to do with the article?
Or are you just trying to market ZoneHaven with comically bad fake criticism (a “praising with faint damn” inversion of the cliché “damning with faint praise”)?
look at the website called ZoneHaven. If you live in California or the USA, maybe you should care about this.
Seems odd to me to order people to shelter in place when toxic smoke is an issue (another PG&E special?).
The ZoneHaven software seems to be evac management software split into an offering for first responders for planning evacuations, and an offering for the public providing a single place to look things up.
From the screenshots, I'm seeing metrics on expected population and # of vehicles. I can only assume there is some dual use concern over the fact that as these datasets can be fused with carrier handset location data, it's possible to implement a geofencing solution with a bit of kitbashing.
The previous mention of "a town in a county near Monterey having their Mayor told California Highway Patrol would keep their town's Interstate access cut off on a timescale of months" (no evidence offered or capable of being found on a cursory search, will check CalFIRE as recommended though), but assuming good faith, could be a valid reason for concern.
If nothing else, it actually got me searching as to whether anything like that was at all precedented. It's one of those things that I guess you take for granted won't happen, but when you start thinking about it, gives you a shiver.
Relevance to article can be inferred the poster finds application of this potential tool in such a hypothetical geofencing manner with no recourse or questioning disquieting. Which I can't necessarily blame them for; my "but no one would do that"/State overreach mental circuits have been getting increasingly Locked Out/Tagged Out over the last decade. The poster just might be kind of bad at communicating context, or over-relying on other people sharing mental context/priors for the meaning to fully come through.
Incomplete communication maybe. Lunatic, I think not.
Seems problematic, since neither people nor vehicles are currently required to have GPS interacting with a central server that could enforce this.
> What is the proof of this? Two things from public sources
Then why are neither cited, rather than non-verifiably described?
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> ask Charlie Crocker at ZoneHaven and see what he says, on the public record
I’m sure, as what you describe would be a major extension of ZoneHaven utility to government that would be a selling point if it did work, the CEO of ZoneHaven would have pretty much the most reason of anyone on the planet to paint it as a thing that was imminent to be widely available and adopted.
But that’s a reason to be skeptical of him saying that.
This isn't some authoritarian power play, they closed the highway because there's about 400 feet between the highway and the battery facility where there was an active lithium metal fire going on. As someone who lives in the vicinity, I can tell you that a larger road closure was also needed for some quite practical reasons: the power plant and adjacent town are fairly isolated and the places to set up closures where traffic can be diverted safely are quite far away.