Last night looked really promising - many dark clouds, wind and we could smell rain. There was quite a display of cloud to cloud lightning and some thunder after dark, but ultimately no joy.
At 11:45 pm the power went out. I hate when the power goes out, especially since I have a pandemic sized hoard of food in the freezer. We got up, reported the outage and went back to bed. It came back about three hours later. This afternoon we saw this down the street.
These guys are my heroes, working in these unholy temperatures. The outage was caused by two old cables giving up the ghost and taking the power down. They were replacing the bad sections.
This is a very large hole in the ground.
So that has been our excitement this weekend.
Here are two addresses for our illustrious post master general. I plan on writing him detailing the health issues he is visiting upon those who are waiting for insulin, cancer drugs, treatments for PTSD and all the other meds that people get by mail. One guy on twitter has been waiting 12 days for $35,000 worth of cancer drugs. You know who else is hurt? Baby chickens. Chicks are shipped via USPS, and if they don't arrive in a timely fashion, especially when it's hot, they die.
Since I have no postcards, I shall be using old, unused Christmas cards.
They have quit removing mail boxes, now they're locking them closed in place.
Ugh, that HEAT! And I thought WE had it bad.
ReplyDeleteThose locked mailboxes are outrageous. There can be no excuse for that.
Agree. It is a delegated Constitutional authority of Congress, not the orange man and Congress needs to straighten it out before the fiasco election.
DeleteThis man must go. I hope Pelosi has a solution.
ReplyDeletedramatic skies. same here. we think there's a bubble over this town. rain goes north of us and south of us. you can see and it smell it. DeJoy needs to be raked across the coals. this is a very republican small town and currently there's a topic on mail in voting on the local chat group. unbelievable the amount of ignorance and stupidity. parroting Trump about absentee voting good mail in voting bad when they are exactly the same thing. they are convinced there is no tracking or validation on mail in votes. even your dog gets a ballot!
ReplyDeleteI'm getting a bit tired of all the clouds, wind and dust when there is no rain attached. We NEED some rain! Your sky photos are great.
ReplyDeleteAbout your question about construction up here. I have no idea what has caused the surge. However when you mentioned U of A, I got to thinking that some of it could be ASU. Their building never seems to end either downtown or in Tempe.
That picture of the mailboxes taped over is a bit frightening. Where was that?
Ever since this lock-down started my close friend David and I have been sending each other post cards. We are doing our part to support the post office! He and I used to work on a project team that traveled all over and we both have collections of post cards from all over the US and more from vacations abroad. We send each 3 or 4 a week. It's probably silly but since we can't have dinner together a couple times a week, this feels like a fun way to amuse each other. I'm always thrilled to pick up my mail and find another post card.