It's January 7th

and who here hates Mondays, raise your hand?

The 'storm' came through Friday and it was wonderful!! Lots of rain, a good amount of wind, just enough to blow down a few trees and create some little mudslides. With people at work still in Holiday mode, most were still on vacation so I took the opportunity to camp in an empty office with a window, so I could watch the action outside. When I got to work that morning, I got out of my car and was instantly pelted by fat raindrops. Being a life-long puddle stomper, I turned my face to the wind and enjoyed the rain on my skin. The storms caused lots of snowfall in the Sierra's and kept the roads damp over the entire weekend. Much needed and way overdue precipitation. I'm hoping for some more to roll in later this week. The dark clouds keep waving past but there is some blue skies and sun; no water falls from the sky today.

With the down trees comes loss of electricity. Today my coworker complained that because we live in California, modern technology should include no power outages. How dare PG&E not keep the pipes dry that house the electical lines and not have tree-proof power lines so that he is not inconvenienced. However, he went to his brothers house who had electricity, and is still alive, suffered no personal nor financial damage to his self nor his property and yet claims that the power outage for 36 hours was "a nightmare!" I suspect he has not a clue what a nightmare actually is. What he was, was simply minor inconvenience. I advised he be more prepared next time, with wood to burn for warmth and cooking, perhaps use some of the money he squeezes from each penny to put solar in his home and keep his batteries charged so he wouldn't have to experience this 'nightmare' again.