Power outage

Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 4 months ago to News
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Up here in the wilds of Alaska, our power went out due to the high wind gusts, which are still going. Our generator went on quickly and the outage didn't last more than 2 hours. However, my mother owns a veterinary clinic, and the generator there didn't start... She called a handyman who had to jump it with his car. He had to go into their neighbor's yard, since it's on the backside of the building. (The manufacturer of their generator went out of business several months ago.)
Just a fiasco. Thank goodness it worked out.
Is anyone in the Gulch experiencing flooding or other natural disasters?

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  • Posted by bsmith51 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Last rupture was in 1700. The geological record (If I remember right) shows an average period of rupture at 240 years.
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  • Posted by skidance 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've been thinking that we in Central Oregon must find a way to do battle with the Progressive movement. Are you in?
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  • Posted by dukem 9 years, 3 months ago
    Don't forget Oregon's eco-freak governor and his girlfriend who were shown the door after the crony capitalism eco-scandal. Where I live, in central Oregon, we are flooded with Californians who are fleeing California, only to demand locally what they fled in California. I know how that works, because I did just that 12 years ago before awakening.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Actually, the Emergency Response group I'm with is planning for a joint drill next summer called "Cascadia Rising" which is all about a rupture on that fault and a resulting 10.0+ earthquake. I'd recommend everyone go look it up, as it is overdue and the most recent occurrence was only about 200 years ago, but it wiped out nearly everything in the Pacific Northwest and most of the coastline even down to California. The tsunami-induced surge which traveled up the Columbia wiped out everything along that river until it hit the Rockies.
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  • Posted by bsmith51 9 years, 3 months ago
    Natural disasters could be a good way to solve many problems. Perhaps we should re-settle all the coastal inhabitants inland from Eureka, CA to Cape Flattery, WA, give that land to illegals and those demanding social justice, then patiently wait for the overdue rupture of the Cascadia Fault and its resultant 9+ quake and tsunami. Social justice meted out and problem fixed.
    Am I kidding?
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 3 months ago
    Here in wussie-land, Massachusetts, the temperature recently went from 50's (unseasonably high) to 24, but that is it.

    I applaud those in remote spots, and wish I could do what I do for work there. Always wanted to live in Alaska.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I figured they had the beer. Hollister California of the no one knows why T shirt fame had a winery Gold something or another that made some fantastich Pomegranate. I had to laugh at the tshirts...there's nothing there but a few wineries and artichokes.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We got held up by the police there and other people have also, so we have generally not wanted to avoid that town. We might hang out in the wine country if we had to go that far north.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Here's one. We're pretty weird.

    I'm here for the beaches and mountains. Pretty nice combo. The State of Jefferson is nice too. Want to know a real accomplishment? Actually being able to afford living here while not being on the dole...
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  • Posted by richrobinson 9 years, 4 months ago
    Good luck and be safe Sarah. I'm in Pittsburgh and we are having a mild winter so far. The last 2 years were brutal but nothing this year.
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That sounds difficult- but I'm glad you had a friend to help. We used to have only a very small generator. It can fuel maybe 2 or 3 amenities at a time, and the underground well isn't hooked up to it, so we went without water. We upgraded to the larger, whole-house generator a few years ago (which still isn't hooked up to the well). Power outages happen fairly frequently here, but it's never for very long.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Drive North... There's this little town called Tecate. Lots of guapas with lots of cerveza...Tell them Miguelito Ratoncito-Gonalez primo de Speedy sent you. The rest sound bearable. Getting any rain yet?
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We cooked at a friend's house who had a generator (power for the computers) and internet. We also drank at the bar for the same reason and I came up with a "Hank Rangar" solution to get some internet at home.

    It was a different problem everyday, would there be water today, would the cell phones work (did the first day but not again for 5 or 6 days, would the ATM work (not for 10 days - we were the first one to use it and then there was a long line within 15 minutes), would there be beer - the beer truck did not come for a week or so, would there be gasoline? Heat and boredom and bad information were the big problems.

    When the power came on again I said that day from now on will be Thomas Edison day.

    We stayed because people thought based on the last big hurricane we might be without power for 4 to 5 days. Next time we will drive out of the area.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Count your blessings. Most have moved to Oregon Washington, Idaho, Arizona for further. Oregon's only real industry other than exporting pot and high school seniors is bedroom retirement community for California. Those folks pay their retirement income tax to California deduct it from their Oregon income tax and end up paying nothing to live in Oregon. Well when it was worth living there. Then there was the deluge that landed for the free medical program and before that the no questions asked food stamps. 70% of the state is government owned. I thought the USA should offer all that land to the Chinese as collateral. - along with everything in the south west corner. San Diego LA etc.
    China refused and said they'd rather take an economic bath on US T bills. Oregon had too many debts and California had too many debts plus who could pay the water bill for LA County?

    No stuff it really happened that way?
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago
    Hey DB! That one skipped us again. I'm guessing our turns coming on the other side. Greetings "Sarah I live across the pond form DB and K. So..hurricanes are a part of life. But it was worse in Florida.

    Life has these little surprises where ever you live. BUT there are bright spots. Like my newly arrived from California neighbors who were prepared for the huge snowstorm. He had installed wood heat? Pellet stove? The feed auger ran on electricity? Kinda makes you smile at the justice of it all. The question marks meaning I'm speaking in Californian? They talk that way.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 9 years, 4 months ago
    Hi,

    Not now, but we did without electricity for 13 days after hurricane Odile
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