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BOMB CYCLONE HIT!!!!!!!!
It was a good wind storm, winds coming from the east as the cyclone sucked air from the east side of the state. Our house is ok, cars too. No trees down but lots of branches. But the neighborhood has trees down that have brought all the electrical and cable wires down to the road. We are out of power until maybe Saturday according to the power company. I’m thinking we have until Wed. We’ll see. So we also don’t have internet which is why I didn’t post yesterday. No idea when that will come back. Got the generator working and it powers the house about 50%, with freezers and fridges all running which is good. I could not go out Tue night to start the generator because my wife thought it was too dangerous to be out there. Stuff in the freezers was starting to get a little soft but not bad.
My granddaughter is giving me great glee. She is 14 and apoplectic that there is no internet. Can’t live without it. Life is horrible. Buck up little camper word!!
mspart
Been there. It’s crazy. Worst part was the gas stations and groceries were without power sop you couldn’t drive out of the affected areas to get food once local trees were cut from blocking the streets. We didn’t have a generator but we did have a backup battery to run the internet. Despite all of the downed powerlines the intent cable enroute to us didn’t break. I ran an extension cord to it for my laptop and the battery held enough power to open it and watch a few movies at night. After a few days I was able to get a small portable natural gas generator from a cousin 2 states away and an adapter to hook it up to the natural gas connection for my grill. It was just enough to power up the refrigerator, a couple of lamps and my laptop. He also brought us a ton of food and 10 gals of gas for the cars. It was 12 days before the local gas stations were reconnected to power.
Yeah, the gas stations and grocery stores are suffering along with us. My wife went to get gas for our generator and she couldn’t get through so she left. Too many people trying to get gas and gas flowing too slow. Puget Sound Energy is still saying tomorrow at 8:00 pm we will have power restored. Lines remain on the road in our neighborhood. I really doubt it will be tomorrow. I’m thinking no sooner than Wed. We need to get gas for that generator word!!
mspart
Good luck to you. 4 days is 4 too many without power, even limited power.
We dodged another bullet. We finally got a good rain soaking yesterday, 2.5 inches. No flooding because the state was so dry. 40 miles upstate got 20″ of snow, one of the heaviest November snowfalls on record. While all 3 kids had there snowblowers cranking we were watching leaves falling. The rain yesterday exceeded the total rainfall we had July 1 to November 20 by a 1/2 inch.
That’s a lot of rain!! We got power after going to a Mexican restaurant on Saturday. I think we will do that from now on. We were out since Tue evening. All my gas tanks are filled so we have gas for a week or so of generator use. No need now. Internet came back also. So we are back up.
I think that bomb cyclone is still out there. You can see it at Windy.com. It is just hanging out there, but the power is down I think. Winds are still coming out of the south east which never happens. It is a huge vacuum out there just sucking air from WA, OR, ID, MT, and UT word.
mspart
The grass has started to return to green. Now the trees are brown. Oh well.
Went out and bought 2 pinball machine. Someone was moving and needed to dump them quick. Nice 1970’s Williams machine with old style bells and lots of lights. Both are four player so no lines / no waiting, no fighting over who goes first. He’s also selling a 1940’s baseball machine, the kind with the little ramps for the homerun. They rarely come on the market and the guy knew it so the price was almost triple the two I bought. I’ve got room for it, but it’s pricey. I left him number if decides he needs to get rid of it.
I have never thought of buying a pinball machine. But it would be fun no doubt. I don’t remember the baseball machine. I from the world of Pong!!! Happy Thanksgiving word!!!
mspart
I never played much pinball growing up, but when I was in an arcade I usually played a baseball game where you press one button and the pitch rolls out through a tunnel in the bottom of the machine and there’s another button to swing a bat. There are knock down targets in the field for hits and gaps between them for outs if you miss a knockdown. If you hit in the right direction the ball rolls up a ramp to land in the upper deck for a homerun.
Once again too much turkey knocked me down for a nap. I hope you got to share some with your clan.
Goooooooooooooooooood morning everybody!!!!!!!!!
Not to brag but we never lost power.
Made a lot of food, a lot of people over to eat and a lot of cleanup.
Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving word!Hey AC!! Glad to hear you are well and have had a great Thanksgiving. I do not appreciate you bragging about not losing power due to the Bomb Cyclone! I thought it hit everyone!! It is just for that and other circumstances (about 4 times a year we lose power) that we have the generator. I changed the oil in the Generator on Saturday. Not hard but not the greatest job either. I need to get someway to tilt the generator so that gravity brings the oil out. I feel like gravity went quantum on me, there one second, not the other continually!!
Changed the oil in my rider mower as well. I changed the oil and then the filter. Dang. Wrong order. I lost some oil as I changed the filter, and it was a mess. Stupid. After Thanksgiving blues I guess word.
mspart
We bought an electric push mower, 60 V, when we moved in. The lot is only a 1/4 acre and probably 50% is covered with pavers and garden so it was a borderline decision for a rider. I figured I’d have plenty of time to walk it. It’s self-propelled so it becomes a walking exercise. The big advantage is…no maintenance except cleaning grass from under the deck.
Barely making it to the 40’s and will a week in the 30’s ahead, no bombs in the forecast
Went to work it was 27F out there. Kind of chilly.
We have an electric mower for a small front lawn that the rider cannot get to. Not battery powered, so the electric cord is a hassle. But otherwise, does a good job. Lightweight and all that.
It warms up starting tomorrow and and starts the rain again. HOpefully we have a white Christmas, but that is very unusual word.
mspart
There will be snow further north tonight but the coastal wind will keep it away from us. Right now we’re 43 daughter an hour north is 23. The kiddie wrestling season opened last Saturday. The 2 younger boys placed 2ndl, 3-1 record out of 16. The older 2 didn’t place going 1-2. Oldest granddaughter switched cheer this winter, more school friends are doing it than gymnastics, The team did well placing 2nd out of 12. She won the tumbling competition beating out 20+ others. The floor routine was always her bast gymnastics event.
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