Life in Lynch Lair at Wildcat Station

[Greg]

tQ and I decided to go out and visit the Mariposa museum while waiting for the power to be restored. We also ate breakfast at Happy Burger. We arrived back at noon and moments later the power was restored. Huzzah! I hunkered down to watch a baseball game and relax for the rest of the day. In the bottom of the 5th inning, the power went out again. Our notification said it would be restored around 2am on Sunday. What is the opposite of huzzah? tQ and I spent the day reading and napping and trying to figuring out what we were going to do. A lot of our neighbors on Facebook on furious. They had already lost food in their refrigerators. One woman was on 24 hour oxygen and didn't have enough backup bottles to make it through.

Our poor neighbor, who works for PG&E was up at 4am firing up his generator. His girlfriend tried to explain the situation to the local FB group. It did not go well. There was a lot of talk about how people should buy generators because power outages are just going to keep happening. My less well off neighbors were not happy with that solution. Plus you need a lot of gasoline if your power is going to be off for an extended period of time. For us to get battery backups for our Solar Panels, which is another option, would cost about $9k. If I ever achieve liquidity again or a cash flow, that is probably the way for us to go.

Fortunately the power was restored at 7:45. I think our food was just on the edge of spoiling, but we made it a point not to go into the refrigerator all day.