California Storm
As most of you know, we in N. California have had a series of storms in the last few days; heavy rain and very high winds. We lost power Friday evening and with it lost internet and phone service, both with Comcast. I am prepared for this type of event in that I have a generator which will power the whole house including freezer and well pump. And I heat by wood stove.
Saturday morning I checked for wind damage. Nothing shocking since I could see barn roof panels flapping in the wind from my front window. Carrying my camera I walked toward the barns. Sitting on top of the undamaged barn was a turkey vulture.
"Nice view but I feel wet and cold"
"Dryin my wings and groovin on things." (roadkill)
The greenhouse roof is damaged but repairable since I put those panels up in the first place. I was 35 years younger at the time, however.
The worst damage is to the big barn which we call the hay barn since that's where we stored the hay we grew. It's about 35 feet high so there's no way I'd try to repair it.
Bummer
View from the front window this morning.
The wind is still blowing as I write this, and the panels are peeling back. Where it stops, nobody knows.
Although I was warm and comfortable during the outage, the fact that I had no internet was the most discomfiting. And no phone meant I couldn't communicate with anyone. Why didn't you use your cellphone, you ask. Well, as I explained
last week, I loaned my cellphone to Mrs. side pocket for her visit to Quincy.
So a discussion query for you this evening is how dependent are you on having access to the internet, or for that matter even TV? I was at a bit of a loss; I check DKos so often during the day and evening and it is my window on the world. And if I ever needed my favorite weather site, that was the time. I caught up on reading the New Yorker but that got old fairly quickly. I admit, I'm a DKos addict. Not so bad, actually.
I have to queue this up stat because the lights are flickering again. Hope i can join you all at 5.
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