Just in case a couple of you I invited yesterday show up…
“C&C” in Dennis and Liverlips’ posts means
the October 27th 2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”
which you can read on Sherpa via Dennis’ link.
I was planning to be here early just in case…. but it’s very late right now.
I can’t blame it on GoComics OR my internet connection…
I’ve been glued to my cell phone and e-mail, which both get alerts… also to Google, and my online newspaper subscription.
A big fire is raging northeast of me… much farther away this time… but with high winds forecast, is ill-contained and possibly moving west.
Having been sued over its faulty equipment causing a huge fire in 2017, the power company (PG&E)(Pacific Gas and Electric) has shut down electricity to most of the county “to prevent fires”.
On top of that, the COUNTY, having failed to issue adequate warning two years ago in the face of the advancing fires that burned the north part of the city,
is implementing mandatory evacuations, over huge swaths that could possibly maybe almost be in the path of this one….
whole towns to the north and west, and everything in between… all the way out to the Pacific… even though the fire is at least 30 miles from the coast.
And with the power out, some people may not get the warnings.
Tonight they’ve added a big section of north Santa Rosa to the “Warning” level… which means not yet, but be ready to evacuate if we tell you to.
It’s an area that burned down in 2017 and is just rebuilding.
Luckily, I’m in the non-scenic South part of town…. so far, I’m far from the blaze, and my power has been left on through THREE shutdowns….
the one going on right now involves almost a MILLION PG&E customers in northern California, but not my street.
Welcome everybody….
Just in case a couple of you I invited yesterday show up…
“C&C” in Dennis and Liverlips’ posts means
the October 27th 2019 “CLEO and COMPANY”
which you can read on Sherpa via Dennis’ link.
I was planning to be here early just in case…. but it’s very late right now.
I can’t blame it on GoComics OR my internet connection…
I’ve been glued to my cell phone and e-mail, which both get alerts… also to Google, and my online newspaper subscription.
A big fire is raging northeast of me… much farther away this time… but with high winds forecast, is ill-contained and possibly moving west.
Having been sued over its faulty equipment causing a huge fire in 2017, the power company (PG&E)(Pacific Gas and Electric) has shut down electricity to most of the county “to prevent fires”.
On top of that, the COUNTY, having failed to issue adequate warning two years ago in the face of the advancing fires that burned the north part of the city,
is implementing mandatory evacuations, over huge swaths that could possibly maybe almost be in the path of this one….
whole towns to the north and west, and everything in between… all the way out to the Pacific… even though the fire is at least 30 miles from the coast.
And with the power out, some people may not get the warnings.
Tonight they’ve added a big section of north Santa Rosa to the “Warning” level… which means not yet, but be ready to evacuate if we tell you to.
It’s an area that burned down in 2017 and is just rebuilding.
Luckily, I’m in the non-scenic South part of town…. so far, I’m far from the blaze, and my power has been left on through THREE shutdowns….
the one going on right now involves almost a MILLION PG&E customers in northern California, but not my street.
I should be fine, but a lot of people aren’t…
It’s a little hard to concentrate on the comics.