pg&eek

“Yes, our pow­er com­pa­ny has a DEATH TOLL.”
—via ‘An­tho­ny,’ as read by Louis Black

 

I grew up with rel­a­tives who worked for Pa­cif­ic Gas and Elec­tric.

PG&E had a funky logo with danc­ing ‘and’ and re­al­ly drab beige trucks. Like, they’d blend into the dirt next to the util­i­ty poles. I had a toy beige PG&E truck as a kid and thought that was cool cause every­one else had the yel­low Tonkas. And there’s one thing I’ve known for about 30 years that is fi­nal­ly out there.

I’ve heard sto­ries all my life about PG&E’s ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ at­ti­tude – which has led to old, poor­ly main­tained fucked up equip­ment. And in today’s com­mon­place ‘ex­ec­u­tives who give them­selves bonus­es’ while com­pa­nies tank, well, pow­der keg is the cor­rect term here.

A 1930s GE equip­ment cat­a­log was shown to me once, cause of my love of ‘retro’ de­sign. It was filled with vin­tage air­brushed draw­ings of tech, fans, gears, you name it. Was told, This is what we use at work. Everything’s old, and it’s even­tu­al­ly go­ing to catch up to us. And man­age­ment doesn’t want to hear any­thing about it.

The first chap­ter of our cur­rent PG&E‑caused state was the ex­plo­sion in San Bruno, 2010.

San Bruno is across from the San Fran­cis­co Air­port, and my dad used to al­ways joke that an air­plane – some­day – would come crash­ing thru our front win­dow. And that was my first re­ac­tion when I saw the ex­plo­sion talked about on Twitter.

The fire hap­pened across town from where I grew up, it took lives and de­stroyed a home be­long­ing to friends – this would be the first of wat would be­come com­mon to­day: Friends in Cal­i­for­nia los­ing homes to fires.

It’s been down­hill ever since.

And in Sacra­men­to Fri­day, some ‘thoughts and prayers’ read Lewis Black-style:

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Im­ages and some text came from a post on my old blog.

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