G’morning....
Oct. 26th, 2019 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osodecanelaIt’s likely I’ll not be posting for the next few days. We’re supposed to have a preventative power shutdown starting this evening at 5 & we might not see power again until Tuesday. (No, we’re not subject to the effects of global warming!) Meanwhile, our county is already on fire. Despite a power shut down earlier this week, it looks like a fire near the geysers in the northeast corner of the county was sparked anyway, quite possibly by transmission lines that were not shut down. Some dirty homes have gone up in smoke and several thousand people have been evacuated. I’m grateful at the moment that this is not us, but if the wind storms are as bad as predicted, who knows what the county will look like come Monday or Tuesday?
Knowing that this power shutdown was likely coming, I drove to the lake house yesterday and fetched our generator, as well as the propane tank. The other propane tank I brought back earlier this week. Both my husband and I are on Cpap, and at least in my case no power means no sleep. Further, we have refrigerators that need electricity. I am not in the mood to have to toss the contents of two full fridges and freezers. I was able to save the bulk of what we had up in Lake County earlier this month by moving it here. The power was out there almost 4 days during the last shut down.
This morning the Cobb Mountain area in Lake County, which was devastated in the valley fire three years ago is once again evacuated. That’s about a 35 minute drive from our lake house. Even with the generator, I’m not sure how we’re going to get news on what’s happening. No power here, means no Internet and no TV & how are radio reception sucks, At least in the house. Further without Wi-Fi we have no cell phone reception. I suppose I’ll be able to turn the radio on in the car.
Enough for now, I need to go empty the car and drive into town while there’s still power to run some errands.
Ultimately my question is just the beginning of the first world transforming into the third world?
Knowing that this power shutdown was likely coming, I drove to the lake house yesterday and fetched our generator, as well as the propane tank. The other propane tank I brought back earlier this week. Both my husband and I are on Cpap, and at least in my case no power means no sleep. Further, we have refrigerators that need electricity. I am not in the mood to have to toss the contents of two full fridges and freezers. I was able to save the bulk of what we had up in Lake County earlier this month by moving it here. The power was out there almost 4 days during the last shut down.
This morning the Cobb Mountain area in Lake County, which was devastated in the valley fire three years ago is once again evacuated. That’s about a 35 minute drive from our lake house. Even with the generator, I’m not sure how we’re going to get news on what’s happening. No power here, means no Internet and no TV & how are radio reception sucks, At least in the house. Further without Wi-Fi we have no cell phone reception. I suppose I’ll be able to turn the radio on in the car.
Enough for now, I need to go empty the car and drive into town while there’s still power to run some errands.
Ultimately my question is just the beginning of the first world transforming into the third world?
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Date: 2019-10-28 02:51 am (UTC)