The commute has not gotten better. LOL
I won't even try to guess what your rent would be today. Scary thought.
I won't even try to guess what your rent would be today. Scary thought.
If I could I'd be there tomorrow.
As it is we just made reservations at a Holiday Inn for a couple of nights starting this Saturday. It's in San Mateo which is right across the hills (aka Santa Cruz Mts) from Montara near the airport. Lots of great restaurants (Izzy's Steak House comes to mind) and cool bars. Get to take long, comfy naps and get in some reading time for my current fav series "Marius' Mules."
Loss of power is seriously inconvenient, but does not necessarily have to be uncomfortable. It's good to be "retired guy."
Did NOT love the 11 mile yet still one hour commute up 101.
I, in Oakland, am scheduled to lose my power to tomorrow through Monday. Regularly scheduled programming (aka gaming) to resume on Tuesday.
To be (sort of) fair to PG&E its not just the lines. CA rarely gets rain except for 3-4 months of the year, when we get a lot. This spurs massive plant/tree growth. Then comes the loong, dry summer months turning everything into massive amounts of very dry kindling. Then, somewhere, a branch/tree falls on a power line and....
Then you add in the tree-huggers and PG&E's complete and total mismanagement and here we are.
Yeah, midwestern, Great Plains, Ohio Valley and Northeast design and build to heavy ice and wind loads, Cali, East Coast and SE build to medium or light loading, so yeah, I get why the PG and E guy laughed..What you say is true. Having said that, many Western states are like this.
A good friend of mine was a contractor for PG & E. He says that their power lines are "fair weather" powerlines. I asked him if those lines could stand up to a good Midwestern Ice Storm and he just laughed.
An appropriate epitome for such politics and philosophies . . .<snipped>
Only in California is power generated by the wind encouraged and then when the wind blows the power is turned off.
You've tapped into another source of problems in CA. Over the last few decades more and more people have chosen to move/settle in previously almost inaccessible forested areas. Thus, when wildfires do breakout now they are more destructive to life and personal property than they used to be. Before, it was just burned shrubs and trees. Now it can include multiple crispy critters.
Well, packing a bag and getting ready to head out "over the hill" for at least two days and likely as many as four. Wife loaned me her extra iPad so at least I'll be "lurking." Power outage could start soon as three, two, o...
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What's the difference between California and the Titanic?
When the Titanic went down its lights were on.
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Only in California is power generated by the wind encouraged and then when the wind blows the power is turned off.
PG&E restored power at home yesterday only to advise more wind coming so will shut it off again this pm. Gambled that’s what they would do so we reserved another three days at another hotel. Irritation level approaching red zone. Possible fire danger.
I've heard that some places have a lot of regulations and red tape so not sure if you are allowed to have one but if you are it might be worth looking into.