I may not have internet for a few days

It can be longer, so far we still have power, they keep delaying it.

@DianneN Yes, I am happy, I think they are waiting to see how winds will be.

@CookieMonster46 Perhaps they are waiting for the winds to get stronger. Glad you still have power for now. How frustrating!

@CookieMonster46 Oh my goodness, I hope nothing similar to what happened last year.

@LadyDuck Nothing as bad as last year as far as I know.

I can tell you this in areas with power off they still had several fires.

@CookieMonster46 , Wow! That is a great thing for you! Hope you had an uninturrupted power supply!

they delayed the shut off until around 8 pm tonight. Hopefully they won't do it.

@AKRao24 they have delayed it once again

@CookieMonster46 No, that is a long time to go with no power. Here I need to use lights outside the chalet I live in as there is no electric light at the entrance, and have bought solar powered ones. This makes things easier but I don't think one could live just using them. I have a battery powered candle or two as well. Anyway, thankfully they are not shutting it off. When I visited Zimbabwe every house had times when the electricity went down and people had to move their dinner from the electric stove inside and finish cooking it on a wood fire outside. I think it was not ideal, but most houses had an outside fire for the purpose probably used for years before electricity was put in. I also once lived in a mud hut in the desert in Iraq and although I remember we eventually had a generator, we had to use oil lamps and heaters for a while like the villagers. (It was an archaological rescue dig.) Here there is a "Tabernacle" really a tent we can use for church services and that has no electricity so we are going to bring battery and solar powered torches when it gets too dark to see. I am thinking we could put a lot of battery powered candles in that and it would look nice -real candles would be a fire risk.

I have lived days without the internet, that is not the main problem. The problem is no lights, in darkenss. But it looks like they will not be shutting it off now. Our food would not have made it for five days, no power.

@Jackalyn Battery candles are very nice, I can't imagine this whole city being pitch dark. How was living in the mud hut? was it warm in that hut? I bet the Tabernacle can be cold?

I hope it is not going to be too long, I think there has to be a better way to handle this.

@CookieMonster46 I feel the same way!

@Michellekidwell Hope it is not so bad for you. I worry about the crime, with the lights out around the city.

No for sure not keto. I am glad too, crime was up for some during this blackout.

@WriterRuth Really , I never hear about that hear, I always thought things were peaceful there. Is it people that live there, doing this or people visiting?

@CookieMonster46 Oh man. I am on the north shore of Hawaii - lived on Oahu off and on for about 15 years. Lately the crime rate has sky rocketed here. Kind of bizarre Shootings and stabbings etc People who have lived here longer than me are heartbroken and shocked

I'm praying CA won't get anymore fires @CookieMonster46 in fact I'm praying none of the west gets anymore fires, they seem much more devastating than those hurricanes.

@rebelann No one needs anything bad happening anywhere. Those fires are horrible.

Right, non of it is going to be fun.

We won't be getting one this go around, were not expecting this.

@JudyEv yes it would have been, I am so glad I didn’t have to replace.

It looks like power will stay on.. if it had gone off for five days, we would have lost food for sure.

@CookieMonster46 It would be really expensive to lose a lot off food.

We were lucky, on the day they were supposed to do it, the winds were not as bad, and they had so many without power, for several days. If we had been without power longer than 5 hours we would have had bad food for sure.

It is always something.

thank you.. this cake was pumpkin spice, it was so good.

@CookieMonster46 oh yum.

They didn’t do it yet, many delays, quite frustrating.

They delayed it several times today, now it may not happen until 8 tonight

@CookieMonster46 Good luck.

It is not going to be any fun, I can hardly wait until it is over.

I hope it won't be that long, but you never know.

Sounds like you guys were very prepared, for emergencies.