We had a big wind event last night and into this morning, 68 mph gusts, so of course our power is out. We have almost no cell service, and internet until the Comcast batteries last on their towers.
We have the generator going, and are hoping that our brand-new refrigerator doesn't mind the power outage too much. We sure don't want to lose yet another fridge worth of food.
Most of the roads are blocked, and there are at least 10 fires started from the downed power lines, some in the areas that already burned last year. For some reason PG&E didn't turn off the power preemptively like they did several times over the summer. So of course stuff is burning, it's been very dry so far this winter, and very warm this past week. Not a good combo, we're hoping the wind lets up asap.
I'm off to try sewing with my machine plugged into an extension cord that leads to the generator, wish me luck. I've got a project to finish!
And I'm checking the Tesla website to see when the heck they're going to install our power wall.
Meanwhile, if you have power and bandwidth go watch this awesome NPR Tiny Desk concert from Tank and the Bangas. Tank was singing one of the songs in a movie we watched last night, One Night in Miami (very awesome) and I loved her voice so much, I looked her up and found this. What a presence, what joy and emotion!:
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