Jay Hannah @deafferret@octodon.social

Nice to read a little book review / journal entry I wrote a year ago and it holds up. :)

"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" by Kurt Vonnegut
http://jays.net/mr_rosewater.txt

384 customers still without power. (wow 180K restored). Feeling lazy because I haven't helped anybody. I registered on the NextDoor Help Map, maybe I should check Facebook for people needing help? ooof. FaceBook.

Day 5 update: We got power back! YAY! Dudes shimmied up the pole, strung new wire, 30 minutes later the house hummed back to life and we were able to kill the constant noise of the generators all throughout the neighborhood.
5,622 customers still without power. #omaha

Raining today, hopefully deck placement stays running and doesn't damage the deck through vibration exhaust etc...

Emergency move into the basement. Hoping to win some #cablemanagment awards.

The good news is chainsawing is pretty fun, great work out. But exhausting in 90 degree billion humidity weather. And the pressure cooker is amazing: steamed spaghetti squash, cooked all the eggs in the fridge all at once.
Today it might rain, moving the 200 pound generator onto the covered deck at 8am. Where... it *should* keep running fine under most rain conditions?

Day 5, no power. Having "an adventure" is one thing. Being on an adventure with people who don't enjoy adventures is another. Everything that needed chainsawing on property has been chainsawed, stacked, hauled. Two huge coolers full of iced drinks I bought for the work crew are now sad melted luke warm tubs because they never showed up. The robot lady called me again today saying "not today. Something something Thursday a human might start calling you."

Update from day 4 on generator power: The power company has now seen the down lines in my neighbor's neighbor's back yard! YAY!! It's like bird spotting, but dudes in hard hats, come to save the day!!
I showed them my little ramp down into the valley, no idea if they'll use it or not.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, For he today who remains without power in #omaha shall be my brother, Be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition, and gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves acursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks, that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day!
27,000 of us. Our numbers are dwindling.

I've got the week off work, doing relaxing things like not having power and felling trees :) https://youtu.be/B9LqeCe3lBA

Ants: Behold! Beautiful orange high speed corridors straight to delicious sugar shoes! Come, my thousands of brothers! FEAST!
Me: dammit ants, those are extension cords from our generator because our power is out. Get out of our house. The shoe is on the deck, help yourself to whatever we stepped in. If you insist on eating inside the house I recommend these delicious poison traps.

err actually today is full day 3 of no power. Us and 42K other customers. https://ww3.oppd.com/power-outage-map/

Greetings from generator-powered Internet, where 66K #omaha folk remain without power on day 3... I cancelled my trip out west, will spend the 2 weeks cleaning up the down trees... country life: so relaxing!