We got five or six inches of really wet heavy snow last night so of course the power goes out and also the cable, internet and phone lines.\u00a0 The generator faithfully kicked in so Camera Girl and the dogs were warm and cozy while the male contingent was tasked with clearing the snow.\u00a0 Of course, the snow blower is suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome so the snow had to be cleared the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n
To add insult to injury the electrical failure is less than five hundred feet from my driveway and so there are the trucks and electrical crew and even some fire fighters standing around looking puzzled.\u00a0 I thought about going and talking to them but reconsidered.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing some of my neighbors already have and I figure the more times you bother those guys the slower they\u2019ll fix it.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about eighteen hours in and I\u2019m sort of resigned to a world without connectivity.\u00a0 The only phone is an old flip phone that we keep around for emergencies.\u00a0 I charged it up and Camera Girl called the kids to let them know we\u2019re alive.\u00a0 I called work and said I was declaring a snow day.\u00a0 When the driveway was clear I went to a wi-fi location and checked to make sure OCF was up today and that has been the extent of our electronic communications for the day.<\/p>\n
No news sites, no X, no nothing.\u00a0 All things considered, it\u2019s not so bad.\u00a0 I guess if the utility reliability continues to decay out here in the hinterlands of Dunwich, I\u2019ll have to ask Elon Musk to provide us with our own dedicated Starlink satellite, a small nuclear power plant and maybe a spaceport.\u00a0 Dunwich is located at the nexus of the Terran\/Great Old Ones dimensional rift so a small dedicated interdimensional port makes a lot of sense.\u00a0 If he\u2019s not too busy with his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) role-playing game maybe he could get working on that.<\/p>\n
Well, whatever the New England states have done to the power grid it doesn\u2019t bode well for the future.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an exaggeration to say that a generator with a cut-in switch that can handle the full electrical load of a home is now standard equipment around here.\u00a0 You can be without power for a week in the winter at any time.\u00a0 So natural gas or a large propane tank is what you need.\u00a0 Getting enough gasoline might not be a safe bet if everyone is without power and out searching for fuel.<\/p>\n
Well, anyway, while I sit here isolated from Al Gore\u2019s world wide web and information superhighway, I think about how the Democrats want to cut away the last links of reliable energy we still have.\u00a0 The blue states are going full speed ahead to criminalize the internal combustion engine and anything else that uses fossil fuels.\u00a0 I guess that Trump\u2019s term will be a decision point for some parts of the country.\u00a0 Without his support, all of the promised charging stations and other green energy rigamarole won\u2019t be there to allow for the fossil-fuel-free-wonderland they envisioned.\u00a0 It may turn out that their deadlines are not be feasible.\u00a0 And if they insist on them, there may be some serious blowback from the voters.\u00a0 It might become quite interesting for Gavin Newsom.\u00a0 Instead of the bullet-train future he promised he might be leaving on a different rail, one that includes tar and feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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