Yeap, that's actual snow. Almost forgot what it looked like. Kind of heavy though they said it would be fluffy - trees that were bent under the Oct storm are re-bending rather alarmingly.
This morning I realized how much I appreciate having "outsourced" the plowing of my long(!) driveway. Else I'd have been up at 5AM with a snowblower.
Yikes. Now you have the pic up, that seems like more damage than I took your post to mean! Looks like you dodged a bullet, though. That definitely could have been worse.
I bitched a bit, but the reality is that we rocked this day. I had phones forwarded by 7:30. The power company sent a storm crew to take the tree off the power line by 9 AM. They sent a wire crew to fix the line by 11 AM. We lost power for a little while, but I run my office off the solar-powered battery room anyway, so it didn't faze me. Also, I rustled up a client who wanted to walk over for the second slot of the day, so I only lost one client spot altogether.
The scariest part of the whole day was the ten minutes I was without internet. Even then we had backups: B. has a cellular hotspot thingy.
Backup phones, backup power, backup internet. I pwned this storm.
Glad to hear everything went well today, preparedness isn't really about the worse case; it is about the things that will really happen/likely to happen, like today, and you kicked ass.
It never hurts to plan for the worse though, it tends to cover as many bases as possible. For those that think you over do the preparedness thing, today they can EAT IT!
My phone company was really difficult to contact and a bit annoying to deal with when I did get them on the phone. The agent made a point of being snarky about how it was a "residential" line and not a "business" line so they were going to send it to the back of the line and maybe send someone out tomorrow to fix it. (Now, how wouldn't I like to upgrade to the "business" service?) Sigh. B. spliced together some telephone wiring to get a phone where we needed it.
But an hour later a telephone line worker showed up. It was the same guy that came out last time we needed a job done. When he was here before he was really helpful and we tipped him a six-pack of good beer. This time we tipped him with a bottle of white wine.
I expect he'll show up again if we need him.
Emergency preparedness isn't just about having stuff. It's about having relationships, too.
o wow. when i saw your note about phones being down on fb i had didn't quite realize that THIS happened. (funny -- if we were still mansion-sitting i'd have seen this right away, but now that we're back in my place i didn't notice it at all. just drove by to check it out. damn!!!!)
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This morning I realized how much I appreciate having "outsourced" the plowing of my long(!) driveway. Else I'd have been up at 5AM with a snowblower.
Time to re-stoke the woodstove!
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Stay well. Think puppy!
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It's a big house. The two doors have street addresses on two different streets. :-)
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The scariest part of the whole day was the ten minutes I was without internet. Even then we had backups: B. has a cellular hotspot thingy.
Backup phones, backup power, backup internet. I pwned this storm.
And then I got a puppy.
Life is good.
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It never hurts to plan for the worse though, it tends to cover as many bases as possible. For those that think you over do the preparedness thing, today they can EAT IT!
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My phone company was really difficult to contact and a bit annoying to deal with when I did get them on the phone. The agent made a point of being snarky about how it was a "residential" line and not a "business" line so they were going to send it to the back of the line and maybe send someone out tomorrow to fix it. (Now, how wouldn't I like to upgrade to the "business" service?) Sigh. B. spliced together some telephone wiring to get a phone where we needed it.
But an hour later a telephone line worker showed up. It was the same guy that came out last time we needed a job done. When he was here before he was really helpful and we tipped him a six-pack of good beer. This time we tipped him with a bottle of white wine.
I expect he'll show up again if we need him.
Emergency preparedness isn't just about having stuff. It's about having relationships, too.
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so sad about ela :( but yay new puppy!!
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