Well hello there. Our power has been out since Sunday because of a PSPS (Public Safety and Power Shutdown) thanks to our not so wonderful power company, PG&E. It was several days of forecasted high winds and the extremely dry conditions which equal what's called a Red Flag warning. PG&E is basically C.Y.A. by turning off the power just....in....case. Instead of replacing the equipment, they inconvenience tens of thousands of their customers. Grrrrrrr.
This picture was taken right after the power shut off and after we got one of the LED lanterns on, it's a shadow of the Halloween pennant banner on the ceiling. I thought it might make a good addition to my collection of shadow pictures.
When the power goes out, the internet which we get through cable goes out within a few hours. They don't have much of an infrastructure of batteries to keep it going. And that means we lose our home phone which is VOIP. At least this time the cell towers kept working so we still had cell service. It makes me think that AT&T must have upped the batteries or installed solar panels or something. Because in the past it was scary when our power was out, because of the extreme weather and worry about a fire, and your phones are all out so you can't get a warning from the fire department to evacuate.
The power came back on just after 10pm last night. It gets very old very fast running a generator all day, it's so loud and I hate all the power cords all over the house. It's a miracle none of us tripped down the stairs.
I got some sewing done thanks to said extension cords, nothing exciting, mostly mending and other things like that weren't worth taking pictures of. It wasn't the right lighting to work on my Rock Candy piece because I wanted to rearrange the elements and that would have a lot to do with the colors which were impossible to see clearly. So I guess I'll be back onto that today.
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