[Elecraft] (OT) Ca Fires

[Walter Underwood]

The positive part of a power shutoff is the elimination of nearby RFI. Run from battery and you can hear the world.

Unfortunately, some people have lost nearly everything. A good friend of ours lost his house in the Tubbs Fire (Santa Rosa), has moved into gtheir newly rebuilt house, and had to evacuate last week. This time, they had enough warning and a pre-organized list.

He wrote an amazing graphic memoir about it. If you’d like to get a feel for how that impacted people, I highly recommend “A Fire Story” by Brian Fies.

https://smile.amazon.com/Fire-Story-Brian-Fies/dp/1419735853

Our local public radio station produced a video with the first part of the story and narration by Brian.

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13813960/watch-a-santa-rosa-cartoonists-a-fire-story-come-to-life

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT <KX3.2 at ColdRocksHotBrooms.com> wrote:
> 
> I've lived in California for a few decades.
> 
> I've evacuated three times due to wildfires, all of them coming closer than I'd like.
> 
> I have never lost a single thing due to fire -- just some sleepless nights.
> 
> The power situation (especially in PG&E territory) is a different story, but one that's manageable.
> 
> 73 -- Lynn
> 
> On 11/2/2019 6:35 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
>> The big question is 'how much longer can Elecraft survive in California and
>> have to move elsewhere".
>> Doug
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