Joe Auricchio

So, last Sunday, the first of the year, a storm hit town. This may have been the same one that dumped 8 inches in 24 hours on Norcal. We got a few inches of rain too, but the real killer was the wind.

According to the paper, there were sustained winds of 65mph. Sustained. Gusts up to 75mph - that’s hurricane strength.

There are a lot of pine trees in Cambria… a lot of shallow-rooted pine trees. Over a hundred trees fell or snapped in the storm, causing over 50 separate power line breaks. PG&E had their hands full for most of the week.

We didn’t have power from Sunday evening until noon Wednesday.

It was a good opportunity to contemplate dependency on electricity, both our society’s overall and mine personally. Four days is the longest I’ve gone without using a computer since I went to Hawaii in 2003. (When I went to Japan last year, we hit the Apple Store in the Ginza to catch up on the rest of the world and send a few emails). I found other things to distract me (hi Gabe, Kyle), but after a week I’d really be hurtin’ for some Slashdot.

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