Well, we survived a rather nasty windstorm here last night, which was the residual effects of the bomb cyclone that hit the Oregon coast. The power went out about 7:30 last night, and came on about 5:30 this morning. Our internet didn't come back on until 11:30 AM though. I was talking with one of the residents last night who told me they once had an over 6 day outage, and the only reason it lasted that long is our power grid has the lowest population of any grid in the city, so is the lowest priority for being restored.
So naturally I was pretty surprised when the power was back on early in the morning, because the news at that time said 500,000 people were still without power. Last night I was a bit antsy, as having no tenant parking spot yet, I park on the street. I was parked in between two pretty large trees. I checked for downed branches once the wind had picked up, but only saw a few small ones on the sidewalk. We did see some feint lightning high in the sky a few times, but no thunder, so we knew the center of the thunder storm was quite far away.
Word is there was a tornado up north of us on the coast, and two unfortunate women in nearby towns from us lost their lives being hit by fallen trees, one homeless, the other in a home in a rather high end suburb. Nature has no prejudice whom it takes. I've also seen footage on the news of a tree that fell on a city bus, and a pretty large tree that slashed a good ways through a fairly large house. All things considered, I think we are very lucky with all the large trees we have around us, and the low priority grid we live on, that no tree damage was done and we got hooked back up so fast.
When I called my friends just now in the building I moved to here from, they said their power and internet never went out. It's OK I thought, I still prefer living here. I mean, life is no fun without risks, right? We're supposed to have more wind gusts this Fri, but not a sustained windstorm. That is the day I was going to take my freeway drive to charge my EV battery (every 3 days), but I'm thinking of doing it Thur instead. I mean, SOME risks yeah, but I'm not a big fan of being blown around at freeway speeds in an SUV, especially when my latissimus dorsi is still spasming from a rather nasty crash I had recently on my mt bike.
On a side not, my latest urge is to get this beast when it goes on sale at the end of the model cycle. It's MUCH better designed for the trails we have here than the 20 yr old dinosaur I've been riding!
This could be a better deal though, but DTC, so no way to demo before purchase.
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