Pals,
The forest surrounding my Secret Alpine Laboratory is getting whipped around by 50+ MPH winds right now. The power is out and I’m, um, “sheltering in-place.” The ringer on my analog phone isn’t working, so if you need to call, just ping me on the cellphone and I’ll spin the rotary dial on the home phone to call you back. My thinking at this point is that I should save the batteries on the cellphones as much as possible. Who knows when the power will be back up? So. Cal. Edison doesn’t.
I’ve laid in firewood, picked up more batteries, and I’m set. The rest of Southern California isn’t doing so well though. There’s a new fire at the junction of the 15 and the 215 and apparently the fire in Aquanga has been contained. Luckily, there’s no other danger (beside the wind) in my immediate area. Northern San Diego County sounds like a very bad place to be at the moment though.
With the high winds blowing right now, maybe it’s not a terrible idea to leave the electricity off. You know?
– bob