Sunny California! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 6:26 PM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > On Mar 23, 2023, at 3:11 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > Well documented. > > Thank you. > > > You’re probably lucky it blocked a road. That creates urgency which > public utilities seem to need. > > One advantage of living on Highway 9, the main thoroughfare of SLV is that > repairs to the road, power, or comm are prioritized. Unfortunately, there > was so much damage to so many roads on Tuesday that I had many friends who > couldn’t get home. Several towns were cut off. > > My neighbor (the one whose house caught the tree last week) called me > Tuesday afternoon and said that he couldn’t get home. They had stopped him > just before the fallen tree, he tried to go around the other way, but those > roads were closed due to fallen trees as well. I told him about the trail > from the road just before where the road block was to the bridge past our > houses, and when he called to tell me that he was able to get home, I told > my boss I was leaving work while I knew that I could still probably get > home. > > I parked my car at the church, just before the closure and discretely > walked past the person watching the road closure. I figured that if I > couldn’t get past on the road, I could do the trail, but it was dark, muddy > and I didn’t have a good flashlight. I’d gotten 10-20 yards past her when > she called out at me and said I couldn’t go. I said I lived just around > the corner, and she said she’d walk me there. > > As I mentioned earlier, before taking photos I grabbed my hard hat and > high-viz vest. About the time I was finishing up, she had just walked > someone past, came up to me and asked if I knew who was in charge. > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com sent from ret4est > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
