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Resident urges town action on utility resilience after prolonged outages
Summary
In public comment, Rita Combs described extended landline, cell and internet outages and a Christmas‑day power loss that left elderly neighbors isolated; she urged the committee and town to pursue redundancy, transparency and a multi‑year resilience plan.
During the public‑comment portion of the Portola Valley Geologic Safety Committee meeting, resident Rita Combs described repeated and lengthy failures of utilities in her neighborhood and urged the committee and town to pursue concrete resilience measures.
Combs said she experienced a multi‑week landline outage between November and mid‑December and had no electricity on…
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