Serenity is one of my favorite space opera movies, and there's a moment in that film that captures, well, not the science fiction world, but unfortunately the one we live in.

Our hero, Mal, is getting kind of a lecture from the operative, played by Chuita Ledjafour, the big, heavy bad guy, who tells Mal our hero that his situation, one man against the entire government

of the core worlds, isn't so good.

He says, it's worse than you know.

And Mal just kind of nods and says, it usually is.

And that's the situation right now in California where I thought I knew how bad

their power problem was, but it turns out, oh no, it's even worse than that. So my friend,

old internet friend Beach Wellboard over at Hot Air put up together this great article today. I'm

going to let you know some of this stuff, quote some of this stuff for me for you.

She writes,

San Ana winds continue to rip through parts of Southern California on Monday,

prompting fire weather warnings and preemptive, preemptive power shutoffs.

Wind gusts hopped 40 miles an hour, which actually isn't that bad here in Colorado,

across much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties,

and Southern California Edison has proactively oh what a devious use of that word proactively shut off power see proactive

would be fixing this stuff before they need to shut off the power this that would be my take

yes so this is just abusing, a perfectly good word.

Proactively shut off power in dozens of communities to reduce the risk of power lines sparking brush fires.

SEE says around 3,600 customers were impacted as of midday Monday with over 200,000 potentially

impacted by other outages that are under consideration.

And that's from, I think, the AP report.

Beech says up to 200,000 people could have their power turned off from front fires because

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