Good Morning!!!! 71F @ 5:30AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 99F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Yesterday started a little hazy, smoke that had drifted down from the fire overnight. By 10AM or so it was clean enough outside to go without a mask, and it stayed that way the rest of the day. Given the choice of smoke blocking the sun and wearing a mask, and sizzling under a clear blue sky, I'll stick with the blue sky, even though it's quite a bit less comfortable in the afternoon sun.
The county doesn't
report percent vaccinated, Billy. It does report the number that have been fully vaccinated (86847), and the total number of vaccines administered (178077). There have been 13176 confirmed cases of CV19 county wide. Census results aren't available for 2020 yet, but for 2019, there were 219186 people here. 20.3% were under 18, so if we take that as the vaccination cutoff, which is not really correct since I think kids over 12 can now be vaccinated( but there's no population data for the 12-18 age group) ,that leaves 174691 eligible for vaccination. Do the math, and 49.7% are fully vaccinated. If you include those that have already had CV19, the "vaccination" rate goes up to 57%, but I don't think anyone is reporting it that way. Using the 178077 number, you might be able to conclude that 81% have had at least one dose of vaccine, but with the J&J vaccine only requiring one dose, it kinda screws up the tally. Any way you look at it, though, there are a lot of people out there that have little or no resistance to CV19. Sounds like the vaccine lottery did some good, Ted, but to me it seems like rewarding bad behavior by giving money to someone that didn't line up for the jab to begin with.
Here's a shot of Lake Oroville I took this morning. It's the only place on the lot that I can actually see water, the level is too low to see over the edge of the canyon everywhere else. The top of the dam is at 900' of elevation, this morning the lake level is
646'. The lowest it's ever been, in 1977, was about 638'. It's dropping at a little more than a foot a day, so in a little more than a week, that record will be broken.
You've been busy, Ted! Does that sheet metal rattle in the wind? And that's a doozie of a scar.
Sorry about the misunderstanding on the job, Thomas. As in they need you more than you need the job.
Yesterday I got 600' of wire stretched out and mostly untangled, but it was like wrestling snakes and took all day. Maybe I can get some conduit over it today, but I need to see what's going on with the water delivery first. No word from either neighbor on that yet. I did get a short spurt of water to come down from the big tank yesterday, not really enough for a good flushing of the line, but an indicator that there's a couple of feet of water in it. The hose that allows expansion of the tank is routed up in the air, which is a mistake if I want to use all of the tank, unless I want to rely on a siphon effect. So I think I'm going to install 45° elbows on either end of the hose, and just bend the hose into a lazy U on the ground instead.
Hope everybody's week gets off to a gentle start!
Show up to work 5am for 10 hour work day and was met by lead supervisor and we had strong chat,Friday they fire worker for drinking on the job which left 1 full time worker and me that agree to work 20 hours week but working 30 hours week until it's 5 man crew,supervisor said "If you can't work 40 hour week than your assistant is not needed"
