It’s hard when you’re up against Mother Nature. No rain, then water use restrictions. Water aquifers shrink or dry up. The poor animals have no escape, both food and water scarce. We think of Spring as a time of growth and renewal of the landscape. Hopefully the change of seasons will bring the rains they so desperately need.
We toured the Midway on a trip to San Diego. What a marvelous old war ship. I couldn't get over all the external wiring running about the ship as well as banks of open to the air single throw double pole switches. Yikes! State of the art back then, but oh so crude compared to today's technology.
Sure, but sometimes 'optimistic' just means you want to acknowledge a post, but can't think of a thing to say.
(They don't put detectors in bathrooms; steam from the shower. )
Was it those pine bark beetles that got the trees? I've seen what they have done in the Sandia (NM) mountains, and it's just depressing.
That's only on University property. They don't own the entire town, just lots of property there.
The man that died had a battery backup for his oxygen but couldn't get to it in time.They cut the power because they haven't properly maintained the lines and clearances around them. Low humidity and high winds (that never materialized here locally) were the reason for killing it. (My only beef is with overhead, not the workers on the streets.)
One person died 12 minutes after they cut his power and his oxygen machine stopped working. Last year their equipment started a fire in Paradise, CA that killed 85 people when the winds kicked up.
You won't find many people in CA that like PG&E. Remember Erin Brockovich? Julia Roberts played her in the movie of the same name. Those deaths were at PG&E's hands. San Bruno gas line explosions were caused by shoddy PG&E gas lines. The list goes on. Right before they started killing power, PG&E ececs and their biggest customers were having a wine tasting and dinner party in the North Bay area, two years after their equipment caused a deadly fire in the same area that killed many. I-TEAM: PG&E facing intense criticism for holding wine-tasting this week while planning blackouts
Bingo!
What a fantastic thing to do, thank you, thank you, thank you!
Made through three days without power and barely dented my charged collection of mods.
We had our own looooong family trips as kids. Dad would drive from Decatur, GA (suburb east of Atlanta) all the way to Sweetwater, TX every year or so. We seldom missed going home once a year. He'd get on Interstate 20 & we"d go through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, & halfway across Texas before calling it a night at his parents house or Mom's sisters house. Occasionally we'd stop at his Grandmother's house in East Texas. All freeway fortunately! But even freeways were susceptible to blowing sand & tumbleweeds the further west we went.
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Your pics & collages are wonderful!
I'm usually on Tapatalk so all I can do is "Like" posts or nothing. No emotion related clicks from me. Sorry. I can still do this; tho. [emoji22][emoji22][emoji22] for the drought situation. Living in Texas, even if I'm on the Gulf Coast we still go months without much rain, if any. But not as bad as other areas & not as bad as you are having. We still get burn bans for weeks at a time, even during cooler months.
)You couldn't access their website because it was overwhelmed. For us it was nothing more than a needless inconvenience (since there was no wind) but for others it was a medical, financial or other type of emergency. Just trying to keep it on topic. 
So sad about the bats.Yes, bark beetles. Hadn't heard about NM butI think @MikeE3 said the same happened in Colorado. It's not just the loss of the trees but all that goes with it.
For example, we walk every night with our neighbors and look for satellites, meteors, etc. Every night we'd also have bats that would do a flyby or accompany us and squeak as they flew by. We'd whistle back to them. We actually got to know individuals by the way they squeaked and how many times. As the trees thinned out the moths diminished and so did the bats. There are none that "squeak" here now, just ones we can't hear their calls.
What it looks like here.
Correct, his daughter was on the news trying to warn other people about what happened. From what I saw, I don't know why somebody wasn't there to help him.
We were told power would be cut at midnight, then it was sometime in the morning, then it was noon, then it would be later... (They finally cut it when I tried to log onto ECF.
I'm sure the power cuts prevented fires but why hasn't PG&E properly maintain the lines? I have the answer, it's shareholders, I can give you the news links if you want.
Is everyone on here stocked up or what? I hope I am and just adding small things here and there, then wishing I'd gotten another Glovari.
Yes, bark beetles. Hadn't heard about NM butI think @MikeE3 said the same happened in Colorado. It's not just the loss of the trees but all that goes with it.
Is everyone on here stocked up or what? I hope I am and just adding small things here and there, then wishing I'd gotten another Glovari.
Yes, bark beetles. Hadn't heard about NM butI think @MikeE3 said the same happened in Colorado. It's not just the loss of the trees but all that goes with it.
For example, we walk every night with our neighbors and look for satellites, meteors, etc. Every night we'd also have bats that would do a flyby or accompany us and squeak as they flew by. We'd whistle back to them. We actually got to know individuals by the way they squeaked and how many times. As the trees thinned out the moths diminished and so did the bats. There are none that "squeak" here now, just ones we can't hear their calls.
What it looks like here.
Yes, that would be about the right time frame ... I think you were the guy in the bell bottoms ... I remember you.
Great pictures Spydro ... thanks so much for sharing you picture archives with us.
Indeed ... vast acres in Colorado have been destroyed just like in the pictures you posted. So sad.
We're having a 'localized' disaster here in SE Pennsylvania. An invasive species of the Spotted Lantern fly is destroying everything from trees to vineyards. It's have quite an economic impact. The collateral damage is our song birds and other small birds. There has been so much non-selective insecticide being sprayed by commercial businesses as well as home owners that the bird population is dying off.
We have notre seen any chickadees, nut hatches, cardinals, purple martins, etc all summer. This is damage to the bird population is well known to the ecologists and scientists trying to battle the damn Spotted Lantern fly but it doesn't halt the application of the insecticides as we've been told the 1st line of battle is to save the commercial destruction to the economy of the area. The dying off of the birds is being accepted as the price to pay for trying to control the infestation.
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Yes, that would be about the right time frame ... I think you were the guy in the bell bottoms ... I remember you.
