Monday, March 13, 2023

If we can make it through the next 36 hours without another power outage it would be nice

About 24 hours or less after my wife's operation when she returned home from surgical Center the power went out last Thursday. So, it was very inconvenient to say the least when this happened. However, we were able to keep temperature up to 63 degrees in the house by Saturday and I was able to get a Yamaha 2200 generator inverter to save 1000 dollars of frozen and regular foods which is a really quiet generator to own so I could run it 24 hours a day from Friday through Saturday night.

However, during Monday Night and into Tuesday morning we will be hit here in the Greater SF Bay area with 70 mile per hour gusts of wind which is sure to blow down trees more because of water saturated ground. Also, rivers like the Salinas River and Carmel River and maybe even the Sacramento River might reach flood stage in places like Sacramento, Stockton, Salinas, Pajaro, etc. I'm up 200 feet above the ocean and not in a flood plain so we are okay regarding all this but we are only 1 mile away from the ocean so we will get these winds into our trees around our house too. The ones that mostly blow down are Pine Trees for the most part. And when these mostly pine trees blow into power lines people in our area often lose power. I had to drive 10 miles to get out of the power outage to buy gas recently because you cannot pump gasoline at a Gas Station without power to the pumps.

The last outages knocked out power, all cell phones and texting, all cable and internet so unless you had a land line like we did you had no way to contact anyone except in a dire emergency. I had to call two of my kids so one of them could call my other daughter in Europe because we had no useful way to contact our daughter in Europe until Sunday some time.

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