The electricity is back on.
We were both in our thermals snuggled up and waiting for the sun to bring in some warmth when suddenly I noticed my feet were warming up…ah! the electric heating pad was back on duty. I woke the Baron and he headed for his beloved coffee machine. First things first.
All told we were probably down from about 5:00 a.m. to noon. Fortunately, there is a warming trend ahead: it’s in the 50s now and will be in the mid-60s by Saturday.
You get the weather that we don’t get. If the storm doesn’t make it all the way up the coast to us in SolCal, it then crosses over mexico and and comes up through the gulf to you. If it is cold, it’s snow, if it’s warmer, it’s rain. It’s 80F and the boys down at the beach are waxing their boards, in the middle of February. Go figure.
We have suffered from a high pressure dome that has been sitting offshore just west of Santa Catalina Island all winter. My fruit trees and I are wondering whose hand of judgment put and kept that high pressure dome there.
PS, Check out the weather (or not) channel, weatherchannel.com
Yep. Me too. A little rain and then 80’s again next week. It just ain’t right.
Ahh, the look of civilization!
You guys don’t have a fireplace?
sigh…no fireplace. There’s not a room big enough for one either.
But one year we used part of the quarterly fundraiser proceeds to have a gas line put in and replaced our electric stove/cooker with a gas one. So we are now able to stay warm when the electricity goes out. We store water for the bathrooms for the times when the electric is out, and we keep bottled drinking water on hand…That gas stove means we’re never without coffee.
A few years ago we experienced this thing during a hot spell in June:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho
Though the Baron was away – and had to drive through the D.C. suburbs sans traffic lights – I had him stop and reserve a motel room before coming home. I knew if we waited, they would quickly fill up.
Fortunately the landline phones were working because we’re a dead zone for cell connections.
So, while it’s usually ice that causes problems with trees falling across lines, the 2012 derecho tore up lots more than that.
Being so rural, our beta internet connectivity via the phone lines can sometimes go out if there’s a sustained rain system.
sigh…no fireplace. There’s not a room big enough for one either.
But one year we used part of the quarterly fundraiser proceeds to have a gas line put in and replaced our electric stove/cooker with a gas one. So we are now able to stay warm when the electricity goes out. We store water for the bathrooms for the times when the electric is out, and we keep bottled drinking water on hand…That gas stove means we’re never without coffee.
A few years ago we experienced this thing during a hot spell in June:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho
Though the Baron was away – and had to drive through the D.C. suburbs sans traffic lights – I had him stop and reserve a motel room before coming home. I knew if we waited, they would quickly fill up. He just beat the rush – which he saw as he was leaving the building.
Fortunately the landline phones were working because we’re a dead zone for cell connections.
So, while it’s usually ice that causes problems with trees falling across lines, the 2012 derecho tore up lots more than that.
Being so rural, our beta internet connectivity via the phone lines can sometimes go out if there’s a sustained rain system.