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The rainy season has started! Where I live five inches of rain are forecast for the next three days. I live south of the PacifiCorp service area, but I'm sure that PacifiCorp employees share my joy at the rains arriving and the fire risk diminishing (I live on an urban-wildlife interface). I feel like dancing in the rain.
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From the Nov 6 Rogue Valley Times:
"Pacific Power has dialed down the enhanced safety settings that contributed to more than five dozen outages in Talent over the course of the summer wildfire season.
Some 70 outages in Talent during fire season, which lasted from June 7 through Oct. 28, were linked to enhanced safety settings, according to emails from Pacific Power communications specialists Omar Granados and Simon Gutierrez.
The power company confirmed that high-sensitivity grid equipment settings — designed to mitigate wildfire risk — were switched off last week after fire season ended in Jackson and Josephine counties."
For some reason, the people in Talent were a little disgruntled at having the power switched off seventy times in the ~3-1/2 month air conditioning system.
Here at the other end of the valley, our power went down three times in the week after our upgraded backup generator was installed in July.
-- sutton
moved the creekside lawn furniture to the barn yesterday: local rain of two inches plus by the weekend in the forecast, and snow followed by rain at the higher elevations that feed the creek (the traditional recipe for flooding, as the rain melts the snow)
