[caleach]

I will be leaving this morning and depending on the time I get out I could do that for you.

What’s the best way to get me the address? I have a place on Karock at the other end of the development.

Steve

[ndamico]

Hi,

Anyone in the vicity of yana and shoshone mind driving by our place? I havent seen our cameras working so either the power is still out or comcast is down. Im just curious if the drop from the power pole has been knoxked down by a tree. Thanks in advance.

[bigtreestechman]

Here is a front line perspective regarding the controversial legalization of pot growing and distribution in Calaveras County. It’s worth reading.
Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County from one of our school Principals…
Your thoughtful and kind responses are requested.

Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County:

Thank you for your commitment to represent the people, including children, of Calaveras County and their unimpaired health, wellness, and safety.

As a school principal, I have been saddened, sickened, at at times inundated on the job by issues relating to the growing of marijuana and its abundant presence and impact in our county.

I am saddened by the lack of concern by parents who grow, use, and/or harvest marijuana and then send their children to school in! clothes and with backpacks reeking of pot. The children involuntarily have gotten singled out by peers and staff, and are humiliated when the stench is so strong that staff has to intervene and offer new clothes, and call the parents.

I am sickened by over 11 cases I have seen in the last 2 years where parents are so involved in the M business or have become addicted themselves such that their children are picked up from school by neighbors or relatives, or not at all, or dad or mom have gone away because of their involvement.

I am frustrated that our deputies are in such demand over the pot business that it has taken away their availability for proactivity at the schools.

I am furious with parents and older siblings of my students who brag or indiscriminately talk about how easy it is to get the medical excuse for marijuana, and then supply friends and family and local teens. More furious over stories of children finding stashes of marijuana when on a! play date at a friends house.

I am discouraged that ou! r young students have come across grows and guys with guns and dogs when they have been out and about being kids – that they cannot be sure where it is safe to play anymore.

I am despondent that some local young people see lucrative business in pot growing and have dropped their college or career goals, and now aspire to become growers and dealers.

Marijuana has no place in our communities. There is no hope in pot. Please enact the ban now. Or come on down to the school and join me and teachers and aides for the marijuana-related counseling referrals, CPS calls, crying children whose dad was busted for working the harvest, conferences with pot-impaired parents, and intervention plans for kids whose parents who are too stoned to be parents.

I have renewed hope in that our county has spoken against Measure D and renewed hope that a new board has an unimpaired and unbiased vision for not only our children, but all citizens of Calaveras County, not to menti! on the fading beauty of our countryside. Thank you for courage and integrity in moving forward immediately with the ban on marijuana.

Brett Loring

• This topic was modified 7 years, 12 months ago by bigtreestechman.

[bigtreestechman]

Here is a front line perspective regarding the controversial legalization of pot growing and distribution in Calaveras County. It’s worth reading.
Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County from one of our school Principals:

Dear Supervisors and Representatives of the Majority Voice of Calaveras County:

Thank you for your commitment to represent the people, including children, of Calaveras County and their unimpaired health, wellness, and safety.

As a school principal, I have been saddened, sickened, at at times inundated on the job by issues relating to the growing of marijuana and its abundant presence and impact in our county.

I am saddened by the lack of concern by parents who grow, use, and/or harvest marijuana and then send their children to school in! clothes and with backpacks reeking of pot. The children involuntarily have gotten singled out by peers and staff, and are humiliated when the stench is so strong that staff has to intervene and offer new clothes, and call the parents.

I am sickened by over 11 cases I have seen in the last 2 years where parents are so involved in the M business or have become addicted themselves such that their children are picked up from school by neighbors or relatives, or not at all, or dad or mom have gone away because of their involvement.

I am frustrated that our deputies are in such demand over the pot business that it has taken away their availability for proactivity at the schools.

I am furious with parents and older siblings of my students who brag or indiscriminately talk about how easy it is to get the medical excuse for marijuana, and then supply friends and family and local teens. More furious over stories of children finding stashes of marijuana when on a! play date at a friends house.

I am discouraged that ou! r young students have come across grows and guys with guns and dogs when they have been out and about being kids – that they cannot be sure where it is safe to play anymore.

I am despondent that some local young people see lucrative business in pot growing and have dropped their college or career goals, and now aspire to become growers and dealers.

Marijuana has no place in our communities. There is no hope in pot. Please enact the ban now. Or come on down to the school and join me and teachers and aides for the marijuana-related counseling referrals, CPS calls, crying children whose dad was busted for working the harvest, conferences with pot-impaired parents, and intervention plans for kids whose parents who are too stoned to be parents.

I have renewed hope in that our county has spoken against Measure D and renewed hope that a new board has an unimpaired and unbiased vision for not only our children, but all citizens of Calaveras County, not to menti! on the fading beauty of our countryside. Thank you for courage and integrity in moving forward immediately with the ban on marijuana.

Brett Loring

[caleach]

There is a lot of water running down the hill at the intersection of Cheyenne and Apache. Don’t see it on any other street.

[mtndad]

Got in yesterday, about noon. House still dark! Looked around and electric panel door was open and the main switch was down (off). Put main Switch up, viola, all is working.

Hoping no more outages.

[caleach]

I arrived up here yesterday to a downed power line between the pole and the house. PG&E were johnny on the spot and got me up and running. Still some damage with some items burned out due to surges, etc.

I still see some downed lines in the area so there is still a lot of work to do. Heavy snow bowing many trees.
Thanks PG&E for the rapid response.

[tortuga]

Apparently there was a broken water main on Meko and some of us may have discolored water:

Mainline Leak Repaired in Camp Connell

[jsschmitz]

I’ll guess that the new high efficiency water heater the original poster mentioned probably does run on propane, but it needs electricity to start it (gets rid of the pilot light). The newer high efficiency products are great to reduce energy consumption but they are a pain if the power goes out.

I have a similar issue with a high efficiency furnace – it’s supposed to be drained from any residual water condensate if it will be cold and the power out. What a pain! It was much easier with older furnaces.

Back to the original poster – you are missing some information such as thermal resistance, but you could make some measurements when you are there for a time. Turn it off, take a sample out of the drain every couple of hours for some period of time and plot the result. Extend the line out and let us know what you find. That’ll be some real data.

[MackFamily]

We got a text around 6:20 last night that power was back on, but the PG&E outage line still reports it’s off. Did it go out again?

[Bootstrap]

…and if you have a propane water heater, I’ve found that it’s more than adequate to set the control to “pilot” when we leaving during the Winter…That little flame protects the tank from freezing, just fine.
Then we simply turn it to “on” when we arrive.

[jebediah jake]

Everything is back on in the area of Ottawa/Crow. Nest thermostat and Arlo cameras all came back on without issue. I have a battery backup for the Comcast router and the camera base station. It can generally run a day or so, but not 4-5 like this time.

[caleach]

Great info CCTommy.

[CCTommy]

I’ve been a service and repair plumber up here since 1979 and have never run into a frozen water heater in Big Trees that was in an enclosed sub-area. Cottage Springs and higher elevations can have extended low temps enough to cause problems.

[tortuga]

It took 3 hours for our furnace to get the cabin back up to 45* and it’s been running 15 minutes every hour to keep it at 45*. bbbrrrr!

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