This is the view just now from the west-looking camera on Lyons Peak. Aside from the char in the foreground, you'd never know San Diego County was on fire just a few days ago. The white layer you see in the distance is just fog; our normal “marine layer” that we see on many mornings. I love this sight, especially as I drive down the last stretch of Skyline Truck Trail into the town of Jamul – the mountain tops look like islands rising out of an ethereal sea…I received several emails from worried readers this morning, wondering why I wasn't posting. I suspect these are all new readers (and very welcome!) who have the impression from last week that I normally post a couple hundred times a day. This, I'm afraid, is simply not true. I actually have a job, where for some reason they expect me to do things for them <smile>. Normally I write a couple of posts a day, on average; some days more, some days none at all. It doesn't mean I've disappeared!
In response to another reader email, here's an offer: if you'd like your fire story to be up on the web (with photos, if you'd like), I'd be more than happy to let you do so on my blog. Just send me an email with what you want to say, and any photos you want to put up, and I'll take care of getting it up there. Make sure you let me know what personal details you do and don't want published (your real name, your address, etc.).
And one more excellent idea a reader had: if you have a story related to the firefighters and the wonderful job they did protecting our properties, or if you just want to say THANK YOU, I'd be happy to publish that as well. Again, just write up what you'd like to say in an email, and send it to me.
My email address is slightlyloony-at-jamulblog.com (replace the -at- with @). I have to write it in this odd way to keep the spambots from finding it an inundating me with disgusting email advertisements…
Got a shock when I opened up my SDG&E bill this morning - the bill was about 2x what our household uses - 1647 KW vs a normal usage of about 840 KW. I called SDG&E to ask about this "do you do audits, can you tell me why my reading was so high this time around?".
ReplyDeleteThe nice lady said that "for some reason, the meter reader couldn't get to your meter on the 23rd of October.". I replied "hmmm, thats strange, I wonder if the fire and the fact that 94 was closed to traffic for a week had anything to do with this?".
The upshot of the call was that SDG&E is going to schedule a meter reading on Friday the 2nd of November and send me a corrected bill.
Just a heads up for people who open their October electric bill and it appears a bit out of kilter.