Good morning!!!!

[toppop52]

PG&E just announced it will begin turning off electricity tomorrow at 4AM to approximately 645,456 customers in over 30 counties in Northern California. High winds and low humidity are the reason; their power lines are poorly maintained and could fall and start a wildfire. In those conditions, it could easily build into another Camp Fire sized disaster.

So far, these Public Safety Power Shutoffs, as PG&E has dubbed them, have gotten plenty of complaints from the ten thousand or so folks that have been effected by them. It will be interesting to see the reaction now that they've spread to the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento, two of California's major metropolitan areas.

With no electricity to power the pumps that move the water firefighters use to battle the flames, PG&E's choice to use Public Safety in the name of these events is ironic to say the least. How many will die when the traffic lights go dark, when critical medical equipment ceases to function, or when people eat food spoiled in refrigerators that have gone warm?

They'll turn it on again when they decide it's safe to do so. This will be the third PSPS for this area. The most recent one started at 10PM on 10/5/2019 and lasted until about 1:30PM the following day. The winds stopped blowing at about noon, presumably removing the risk that prompted the PSPS in the first place. 10,000 or so people in three sparsely populated Northern California counties were effected. This next one will effect 65 times the number of people, and cover 10 times the number of counties. I think I read that after the last one, PG&E inspected over 3,000 miles of power lines, mostly by flying helicopters at low altitudes along the right of ways. They'll probably make a similar boast about how many lines they'll have to inspect this time around so we feel sorry for them having to work so hard, and at that time we might get a better idea how long it'll take before everybody's lights work again. After all, how many helicopters are available on such short notice? It could be just a day. My guess is they'll inspect the major metro areas first, leaving those of us out in the sticks to fend for ourselves for who knows how long.

You can follow the utilities antics at the following URLs:

Coverage map:
PG&E power shutoff map and shapefiles

Notification for the current event:
Public Safety Power Shutoff Event

General PSPS PR page:
PG&E weather awareness

Truely, this is yet another sign of an approaching apocalypse. :laughing:

California is becoming Venezuela.

 

[LouNY]

short trip downtown to pick up replacement hydraulic hose I wrecked on my grapple by backing up without unhooking the lines.
Major sigh and :ashamed:
Thought I would drop it off and get it in few days, guy disappears in the back and ten minutes later comes back with new hose.
Nice to have a while you wait service. 600 psi line, about 45 bucks with ends.

Now I need to bend the mounting plate for the forward hydraulics on FEL, put a hurting on that too. Still usable, just a reminder of
my poor driving.

It happens to all of us sooner or later,
my front hydraulic quick connects will separate if pulled on hard enough.

 

[sodamo]

Nice pic, Ted

Here’s one my wife got yesterday. She walks early.

 

[Thomas]

Thomas, I miss the "slow roll" in your morning post. Could you add them back please.

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Closes I can come for you Don now I slow roll out of the bed 5:30am each morning. :confused3:

 

[txdon]

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Closes I can come for you Don now I slow roll out of the bed 5:30am each morning. :confused3:

That will work as long and you follow it with a e-muffin. Us old guys don't like a lot of quick changes in our morning routine.:thumbsup:

 

[toppop52]

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Closes I can come for you Don now I slow roll out of the bed 5:30am each morning. :confused3:

What we really want to know is are you still feeding the little critters?

 

[Thomas]

66F more sun than clouds.

All three projects are done I plan for today :dance1: Outlet LED combo cover plate wasn't in the package call the company and got sorry cover plate will be mail out today,Decided to stain bedroom door and one of kitten wanted to help,I keep saying no number times I thinking she threw hissy fit than knock can stain on the basement floor :shocked: what friggen mess. Now its putter time might even take slow dirt road country ride.

Enjoy the evening all.

 

[Thomas]

What we really want to know is are you still feeding the little critters?

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Yes sir,and reminded if I am late...squirrels chatting to turkey gobbling blue jays etc. making there racket. :confused2:

 

[toppop52]

.37 “ of rain today, not a flood but the most since September 5.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Had my PT evaluation. Need to focus on side muscles used for balance. They have an app that I downloaded. Has my exercise list that I can play and it times me and reports my progress. I scheduled PT for the next 2 weeks, twice a week.

My wheelchair finally came today. I was still using my loaner from rehab. This one moves so nice. Wish I had it before. Will still need it for long trips out. Can’t do a box store yet with a walker, too tiring.

Ordered a recumbent exercise bike from amazon, and an exercise monitor.

Still don’t know about trying to go to work. I woke up this morning with lots of nerve pain. I couldn’t imagine trying to go to work like that.

I got an interesting email from my boss asking if I am still capable of doing my job. Humm. Hope this ain’t going the same direction as LS. I’m not answering that in writing.

Still haven’t gotten a call about help filling out SSDI. My LTD rep said they have a free service as part of our plan to help, and they would call me. I don’t have a number to call them.