{"id":36537,"date":"2021-03-22T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T05:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=36537"},"modified":"2023-12-21T14:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T22:04:40","slug":"cobwebs-targeted-at-mitchell-cabin-during-response-to-a-localized-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=36537","title":{"rendered":"Cobwebs targeted at Mitchell cabin during response to a localized blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Praise be, Lynn and I managed to get our second covid-vaccine shots<\/strong> Wednesday. In less than a fortnight we should be safe from the pandemic, and the people we encounter will have nothing to worry about from us.<\/p>\n

Up until now, social distancing has been a lonely practice:<\/p>\n

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But just scheduling the vaccinations<\/strong> was hardly a simple matter. Luckily we’re old enough to qualify for senior-citizen priorities. Kaiser Permanente in Terra Linda administered the shots, not at the hospital but at the Terra Linda High gym, a few blocks away.<\/p>\n

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Lynn called to me one morning last week<\/strong> to say the the light was out in the refrigerator. In fact, the refrigerator itself didn’t feel as cold as it should, she said. “Maybe it’s come unplugged.” So I pulled the fridge out of its corner. It turned out to be plugged in, but we couldn’t immediately tell; there was a barely penetrable jungle of spider webs behind it.<\/p>\n

While Lynn was struggling her way through the cobwebs, I decided to check our breaker box in the hall closet. As soon as I tried to turn on the closet light, I immediately figured out our refrigerator problem. We were in a blackout. That was a bit of a relief, but it left a jungle of cobwebs that had to be cleared away before we put the refrigerator back in place.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, we decided to drive downtown and see how widespread the blackout was. As soon as we started uphill on Highway 1, its source was evident. A PG&E crew had the highway reduced to one lane at Tank Road (the unsigned road that leads uphill to the town water tanks). A four-story crane with two buckets, each holding a worker adjusting the overhead lines, was taking up the southbound lane.<\/p>\n

Lynn asked one of the workers if this was the source of the local blackout. He said it was and that a cross-arm on a power pole had broken, interrupting our service.<\/p>\n

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Our power was off only two or three hours, which we easily endured. And we got rid of all the spider webs behind our refrigerator! Yay!<\/p>\n

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Once again this week, my cartoons were forwarded to me by Pat Mitchell,<\/strong> wife of my cousin Leck in Colorado, and judging from several friends’ comments on her Dec. 12 jokes, her humor rings true here too. Thanks, Pat.<\/p>\n

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