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Jan. 31st, 2019 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckWe've got statewide warnings about using as little gas and electricity as possible. The electricity is, according to the Detroit Free Press (the DTE site wouldn't let me navigate at all), due to power grids in neighboring states having problems which means that, if we do, too, we're on our own.
The gas situation is more immediately dire but less likely to be a long term problem. Consumers has seven stations in the state (I wasn't 100% clear if that was both peninsulas or just the lower). Three of them are down due to the fire, but only one was damaged. They just can't bring the other two back online for a couple of days yet. Right now, they're talking about rolling gas outages. The idea being not to cut anyone off long enough that they die from the cold.
The fire was in Macomb County, and having three stations there kind of makes sense because southeast Michigan is population dense compared to other regions in the state. I prefer more distributed infrastructure, particularly flammable infrastructure, but I can see why three together might have made logical sense when the decision was made.
They don't yet know what caused the fire, so I expect that part of the delay in bringing the other two back online is wanting to make sure that neither of them is at the same risk. They let the gas part of the fire burn itself out once they'd cut off the flow. Some people are upset about that course of action because they don't understand the logic. I do. I'm also really glad that they were able to keep the fire from spreading given that normal local winter fire fighting techniques aren't nearly so useful at these temperature. I suppose that, when storing, processing, and transporting flammable materials, building to prevent fire spreading only makes sense.
Cordelia has two friends over right now.
I called the cleaning lady and left a message asking her not to come today because she walks and it's not safe, but I don't know if she got it. I know the condo complex where she lives, but I don't know her address within it, so driving over to check on her isn't an option.
TimeMachine decided last night that my laptop needed a complete, from scratch, backup. That's been running 13 hours now. The progress bar currently says that finishing will take another 4 hours. We'll see. If I open more programs on my laptop (I shut them all down overnight), the backup will slow down. I had the option of delaying the backup to that mythical 'more convenient time,' but I thought that putting it off would encourage me to keep putting it off. There's unlikely to be a time when having my laptop backing up for 20-30 hours will be convenient.
The gas situation is more immediately dire but less likely to be a long term problem. Consumers has seven stations in the state (I wasn't 100% clear if that was both peninsulas or just the lower). Three of them are down due to the fire, but only one was damaged. They just can't bring the other two back online for a couple of days yet. Right now, they're talking about rolling gas outages. The idea being not to cut anyone off long enough that they die from the cold.
The fire was in Macomb County, and having three stations there kind of makes sense because southeast Michigan is population dense compared to other regions in the state. I prefer more distributed infrastructure, particularly flammable infrastructure, but I can see why three together might have made logical sense when the decision was made.
They don't yet know what caused the fire, so I expect that part of the delay in bringing the other two back online is wanting to make sure that neither of them is at the same risk. They let the gas part of the fire burn itself out once they'd cut off the flow. Some people are upset about that course of action because they don't understand the logic. I do. I'm also really glad that they were able to keep the fire from spreading given that normal local winter fire fighting techniques aren't nearly so useful at these temperature. I suppose that, when storing, processing, and transporting flammable materials, building to prevent fire spreading only makes sense.
Cordelia has two friends over right now.
I called the cleaning lady and left a message asking her not to come today because she walks and it's not safe, but I don't know if she got it. I know the condo complex where she lives, but I don't know her address within it, so driving over to check on her isn't an option.
TimeMachine decided last night that my laptop needed a complete, from scratch, backup. That's been running 13 hours now. The progress bar currently says that finishing will take another 4 hours. We'll see. If I open more programs on my laptop (I shut them all down overnight), the backup will slow down. I had the option of delaying the backup to that mythical 'more convenient time,' but I thought that putting it off would encourage me to keep putting it off. There's unlikely to be a time when having my laptop backing up for 20-30 hours will be convenient.
