Well, the Building Was Still There When I Got Home . . .

[queerbychoice]

. . . but the electricity wasn't. I just spent 14 hours with no electricity. Plus, I'd just restocked my refrigerator the previous day. Argh.

At least the climate here happens to be habitable even without heating or air conditioning. Because otherwise I'd be, you know, dead.

Comments

[sarianna.livejournal.com]

that bites. a lot. i hope you ate the ice cream at least. :)

and you can survive most places without ac or heat when the power goes out. even when it's 30°F and snowing. warm clothes, fleece blankets, not-cold food...it's not so bad.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more of places where it's -30°F and snowing. Heck, it's usually around 30°F here during the nights all winter - the only reason it never snows here is that we have exceptionally dry air and even when we do get frozen precipitation, it always comes out as hail instead of snow.

I didn't eat my ice cream or open my freezer at all, because I was hoping that leaving the cold air in it, together with the ice (it's a freezer that doesn't automatically defrost, so it's always covered with layers of ice all over the inside), would preserve my ice cream intact - and I had two unopened half-gallons of it in there anyway, so I couldn't possibly have eaten it all in one evening even if I'd tried. This morning I opened it and looked at it and indeed, it's actually amazingly undamaged. My freezer makes a very functional icebox when the power's out!

[leex.livejournal.com]

Glad you're hale, though.

I thought Sacramento was a good deal inland, and sheltered from the oceanside by a mountain range... It seems a bit weird that there'd be winds that'd topple huge trees. :x

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Are there actually some places that never get winds that topple huge trees? San Francisco does get high winds more frequently than we do, but we definitely get them sometimes (I recall a storm in, I think, 1986, when fully three trees in my parents' backyard toppled over). I think of Sacramento as being relatively low-wind because at least we don't get tornados here, which plenty of other extremely inland states further east do get.

The California coast is a bit higher than the valley, but it's not really a high mountain range compared to the Sierra Nevadas in Eastern California.

[leex.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about the effect the Alps have on Italy, actually. I have little idea of the actual state of those mountains.

[the-nominee.livejournal.com]

Please don't die!!!!
Seriously, I'm glad you're OK. I like you.
*smooches*

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I don't smooch strangers.

[deadinmotion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, who do you think Gayle is? deadinmotion???

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

That deadinmotion just never gets enough of smooching . . .

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, that certainly explains the lack of updates... I was beginning to wonder if your building had been toppled.