Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 5:00AM. Plenty of sunshine. High 93F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
As expected, the Fire Weather Watch that is to start tonight has been elevated to a Red Flag Warning, and the PG&E PSPS has gone from Elevated to Watch. In past years we haven't seen this kind of weather until Labor Day, so like the fire season, it's starting early. Winds are supposed to be out of the north and northeast, which will blow the Dixie Fire back into itself in some areas, and push it into unburned areas in others. Unfortunately, it will probably overcome many of the fire lines that have been established, and fan embers in the interior of the fire back to life. All that new smoke will head down the canyon, so I see more days running the air filters and staying inside.
Bird, if you visit the AARP website, you can login to your account and stop most all of their emails. Like athletics, it's too bad they've politicized ageing in a partisan way, because dividing their numbers hinders their ability to lobby and advance the interests of those of us in their golden years.
It's OK if your diet doesn't have a label, Don. Have you noticed that once something gets a label, it starts to morph away from its origins?
Most all of the outdoor outlets had clear plastic covers on them when I bought the place, Don. A few were missing, most of the domes were yellowed and cracked. I've replaced most of them with the kind that has little metal doors you can open and shut to cover the outlets.
I can tell you what I paid for my gutters, Bird, but the price would be ten years old. I'm interested in how well RS's leaf guards work. Seems to me the designs I've seen would be as good at directing rainwater over the gutter mouth as they are the leaves.
Ron's photo today is a good reminder that hot air is best kept inside balloons where it belongs.
Did some tidying up inside the pump house yesterday morning, rerouting cables, trimming some of them, and putting a few things away. Didn't get around to rinsing off the solar panels, and with more ash and smoke on the way, I'll probably wait 'till the end of the week. Reviewed the comments in a thread I started last month in another forum on diagnosing the solar power system here, then ended up gathering information for a reply to the contractor's last unhelpful email. I'm pretty sure, Bruce, that I'm pretty much on my own with regard to the system at this point. If a year of complaints have been unaddressed, how likely is it that will change with another email?
