Good Morning!!!! 58F @ 4:45AM. Morning clouds will give way to afternoon sunshine. High 71F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
It did rain last night, dropping a whole 0.01", maybe enough to keep the dust down on the driveway, but probably not. That's OK; I didn't want to start a trip in the mud anyway.
Hope you have a smooth trip, Drew, and the new MH is as comfortable as you need. We all want to see you out on the road this summer for the big one, 'cause we all want to go along for the ride!
Interesting about the cormorants, Eric. I used to watch them fishing on one of the inland lakes I liked to bicycle around in the SF Bay Area. They seemed harmless enough, but like anything else, if left to excess, it means trouble.
Red bike's packed and ready, weather is drying out, and I'm looking forward to seeing some friends and new places. Likely I won't be posting over the next four days or so, though.
Yesterday I made a little video for the trucker that'll be delivering the shipping container, and hope to hear back that he thinks he's got enough room. Not sure what to do if he doesn't, other than get two 20' boxes instead of a single 40'er.
This is a photo, posted yesterday by one of my neighbors, of one of the C hooks just like the one that failed on the transmission tower that started the Camp Fire. In use, the hook would have been hanging 90° to the left, and the wear on the eye isn't visible. The towers are over 100 years old, and it's very easy to imagine that some C hooks wore more than the others. What is hard to imagine is that no one was sent to inspect them, on a regular basis, and they were left in service to the point of failure. That's not a design problem, and it's not a materials problem. It's what happens when management prioritizes shareholder profits over public safety. Now the utility says they're trying to catch up on all the deferred maintenance, and in clearing the brush away so there's nothing to burn when equipment fails. And fail it will, because there aren't enough people and there isn't enough money to fix everything all at once. So the only alternative is to continue to impose blackouts when the wind blows and moisture in the fuels drops to dangerous levels.
storm should be dyeing late afternoon...fingers cross.
