How are the sign companies handling the rolling blackouts with printers shutting down.
And the wild fires raging all over. I read where Californians moving to Texas might turn it towards Biden.
We are not moving to TX but from an outage standpoint if we do get a notice of a possible shut down we assess the conditions in our area and decide if we want to shut down equipment and unplug them. So far we have not had to do that. There are 4 reasons why we would shut down, Planned Outage (we had one this year), Unplanned outage which nobody knows about until it happens (nothing we can do about it), Power Shortage where we are notified to curtail or else (Had half a dozen or more of those this summer), Preventative Power Outage where they shut down because of current conditions to prevent a downed line from causing an outage (We have had 3 notices of that this summer and expect a few more through October/November.
We are not in an area that would see many outages but many in the state are, especially in the north part.
As far as moving to TX, it is a tax thing, not weather. Top tax rate here is over $13% and taxes start at dollar 1. Plus many cities have sales tax of 10% or 11% and there are business taxes of 1% of gross in many cities including mine but it is capped at some point, plus car tax of 2% a year plus business FFE tax of 1.25% per year, plus, plus, plus. Maybe I will move!
Really the people that are moving are the ones that can work from home and have left the state to escape taxation or ones that are moving their companies for the same reason.
Hopefully that gives you a clearer picture of what we put up with here.
