Jeff Pelline and his wife have been in the dark for most of the week — huddled in their ski jackets and mittens next to a wood-burning stove
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was founded just a few blocks from our home in downtown Nevada City, at the historic National Hotel."The consolidation that formed PG&E occurred here, and PG&E's general office was located in the National," according to the San Francisco utility's history.
We have kept what little food we had chilled in the snow outside our back door. We joked it was like snow camping — but in our own house. Our Yeti generator, which we bought for extended camping trips in the Sierra, came in handy for keeping a floor lamp lit in the living room and even temporarily running the refrigerator — until we noticed the generator was losing its charge much too fast.
It wasn't all grim, though. We read our books by candlelight, missing out on the Giants spring training games and the NBC Nightly News.
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