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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:02:54 -0400, Bill O'Meally wrote:

On 2020-06-14 13:15:08 +0000, Stan Brown said:

If it were physically possible, I'd have a battery-operated
generator. (For those who don't know, in southern California the
power company shuts off power in times of high wind, because
otherwise their **uninsulated** transmission lines touch each other,
spark, and cause wildfires. The shutoffs can last for days, so either
you accept that you'll lose a fridgeful of food once or twice a year,
or you buy a generator for backup power.)

When did you move to SoCal Stan?

In late March of this year. Talk about bad timing! My sister and I
were driving a Budget Truck across the U.S. with my worldly goods,
and we felt like fourteenth-century European aristocrats fleeing the
plague. At almost every stop, we heard some variation on "you're
lucky you didn't get here a couple of days later, because we're under
a shutdown order effective tomorrow."

Far cry from Upstate NY! I recall
getting Finger Lake winery advice from you for my honeymoon back in
2003!

It's certainly different here, seeing wine and liquor sold in Costco,
in Walmart, in grocery stores including Aldi, even in dollar stores!
Prices are much lower, and the selection is surprisingly good, though
it isn't a patch on Northside Wines in Ithaca.
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