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Ahead of the Storm
Dec. 21st, 2012 08:19 pmI was very lucky that I was allowed to head to Fernley yesterday afternoon. Although it meant fighting my way through both Bay Area early-commute and Sacramento late-commute traffic, the most critical portion of the 300 mile drive to Fernley (the section over Donner) had dry pavement and was not difficult. I got home about 10 PM.
Today I worked from home and watched the weather reports. By mid-day, the storm that was over Eureka yesterday afternoon was well into the Sierra and the chain controls were up. Basically, unless I'd left San Jose early this morning, I would have gotten stuck in Colfax, because as I compose this at 8 PM, the chain controls were still up.
( The Storm Hits Fernley )
We got utility power back after only a couple of hours, and I woke up after several hours myself. It wasn't a huge outage, and having what amounts to an entire backup house with an UPS, plus lots of supplies laid in makes us relatively sanguine about such things.
Today I worked from home and watched the weather reports. By mid-day, the storm that was over Eureka yesterday afternoon was well into the Sierra and the chain controls were up. Basically, unless I'd left San Jose early this morning, I would have gotten stuck in Colfax, because as I compose this at 8 PM, the chain controls were still up.
( The Storm Hits Fernley )
We got utility power back after only a couple of hours, and I woke up after several hours myself. It wasn't a huge outage, and having what amounts to an entire backup house with an UPS, plus lots of supplies laid in makes us relatively sanguine about such things.
