KBUU News – Day 342 – Wed Oct 16 – MHS Ditches Plants On Roof, Will Go Solar – Borderline Memorial Service Planned – Ben Allen, Meet Gavin Newsom – Utility Fires Exec Over Tasteless Wine
Written by 991KBU on October 16, 2019
- = Malibu High gives up on a living roof … and goes for solar.
- = The Borderline shooting massacre memorial park will be dedicated in 3 weeks.
- = The Saddleridge Fire just 46 percent contained … as flames shoot out of the dirt above a natural gas storage facility.
- = Malibu’s state senator gets slapped down by the governor.
- = And it was a really bad idea for a big power company to have a winery party … during blackouts.
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Malibu’s Only Local Daily News … from Radio Malibu …. F-M 99 point 1 K B U U. Good morning … I’m Hans Laetz reporting.
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At Malibu High School … original plans to provide a “green roof” of living plants on top of the front building are running into reality. And the district will go solar. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/mhs-roof-will-go-solar/
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Also at the school board this week:
Traffic congestion at Malibu Elementary School on Point Dume … particularly at the afternoon student pickup time.
Volunteers and parent cooperation is being encouraged … to keep the gridlock to a minimum.
Tomorrow night … the school board will vote on a minor adjustment to its contract with traffic engineers.
The district will spend another 39 hundred dollars on a plan to evaluate the current situation … to see if the original traffic studies were correct … and if-not … to make recommendations.
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The Borderline Bar shooting in Thousand Oaks was 49 weeks ago. The somber anniversary is coming up … marked by the dedication of a reflection park. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/borderline-somber-reflection/
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Although the majority of flames are long out … the Saddleridge Fire continues to burn in the foothills east of Newhall and north of Sylmar. And yesterday … a small flame was spotted emerging from a hillside … near the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. Details: https://www.radiomalibu.net/flames-at-natgas-storage-area/
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Santa Ana winds will return to the area this weekend … but not awfully strong.
We may get high wind warnings for the Santa Monica Mountains Friday.
Stronger desert and mountain winds are more likely on Sunday and into Monday … but again … not as strong as the winds we had earlier this week.
This comes as researchers are warning that Santa Ana wind storms are now turning into wintertime events …. not just during autumn.
A researcher at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography has published measurements of current Santa Ana winds … and predictions that take into effect global warming impacts,
The results … Santa Anas can happen as early as September or as late as May.
The strongest winds usually happen in winter months … December and January.
The researcher says December months may see the most back-to-back Santa Ana winds.
And that provides opportunities for wildfires to burn longer and bigger, in winter months.
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Local state senator Ben Allen has lost a showdown with the governor.
Allen had pushed a bill al the way through the legislature …
It would have allowed voters to rank their number one and two choices in local elections.
It passed unanimously.
Everyone liked it.
Everyone except one Gavin Newsom.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that Newsom hated the idea in 2002 … and doesn’t like it much better today.
He voted Ben Allen’s bill.
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We told you a couple days ago about the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s natural gas division … which thought it would be a good idea to host its top customers at a snazzy Sonoma County vineyard for dinner.
On the 2 year anniversary of the deadly Sonoma County fifes.
As the company was blacking out much of northern California in high winds.
The genius who thought that was a good idea has left the building.
Not clear if he resigned in shame … or was fired as a scapegoat.
Mel Christopher, who was until recently the top PG&E gas executive, was gone as of Tuesday.
His boss is till apologizing.
“Insensitive, inappropriate, and tone deaf” … he says.
Yeah.
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Weather for the Malibu ….
(((( Mostly sunny )))) … highs (((( 75 )))) beaches … (((( 89 )))) mountains and canyons.
Downcoast winds … ((( 15 )))) miles per hour this afternoon.
Sunset tonight is at (((( 6:25 )))).
After that … ((( partly cloudy )))) tonight … low (((( 59 )))) beaches … (((( 53 )))) mountains and canyons.
Tomorrow should be (((( much the same )))).
Warmer this weekend … with mild Santa Anas possible Friday … stringer Santa Anans by Monday
Sweeping down the coast …
At Leo Carrillo Beach it’s (((( )))) degrees.
KBUU Trancas … ((( ))).
Paradise Cove … ((( ))).
Big Rock … ((( ))).
In upper Malibu Canyon … ((( ))).
Calabasas … ((( ))).
And Civic Center L-A … ((( ))).
In the ocean … it’s (((( )))) degrees in the water at Zuma Beach.
The lifeguards say the waves today are (((( )))) feet high ….
Those are (((( fair )))) surfing conditions …. according to the lifeguards.
((((( tide is at ))))
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