Preparing for a Public Safety Power Shutoff

With PG&E's Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) events this week affecting 30 counties in the state, many of us have been thinking about what we'd do and how best to prepare in the event our power is shut off.  As posted by our friends at KQED, we found this to be useful and wanted to share with the community:

One thing we would like to note is that in the event of a PSPS, the City expects to meet its customers’ water and sewer demands.  We do have standby generators at all of our water and sewer facilities, so you will continue to receive water on demand from our reservoirs, and be able to gravity flow sewer to our lift stations.

Lastly, if you don’t yet have an air purifier in your home, you may want to consider getting one now when they are readily available.  Be sure to get one that comes with a carbon filter as that is what will absorb the particulates from a fire.