To start...

This pole was damaged months ago by a "asleep" at the wheel driver. SCE (electric company) came in and replaced the pole (in front of my neighbors yard), but left the old pole because the cable company has their wires on in. Well if you didn't hear on the news, southern Cali is being hit hard with high winds. They came in last night. We prepared for it. Securing patio furniture, putting the bunny in the garden shed, removing outdoor paper lanterns and anything else that might fly. I did an extra watering of plants and trees so they would not dry out as much and sealed our back kitchen windows for dust. Well we went out to survey the damage and our other neighbor informed us that the street was closed because the pole was about to give. The wind had pushed it and was hanging on by two wires attached to our neighbors house. As of now... it is one wire, as taught as can be, holding the pole up. I do live in the city. We have two major we one major street to the west, one to the south, north and west. We just are a strip of homes with acres and that makes us rural. Go figure. I went to the market, had to drive past the police barracade and as I parked I noticed that lights were out. The store is no more then 5 minutes away. Their grid lost power. They were open so I walked in. I shopped in the dark with bag boys assisting me with flash lights. I laughed to myself. My Husband would love this. After all his blog is about our "3rd world house".