The fire was the lead story on two of the three Reno news channels at 5 p.m. The NBC affiliate opened with the poor air quality in Reno because of the fire and then went to the fire. I tried to get a cell phone photo of Anderson Cooper's show tonight. They had a reporter live from somewhere in Sonoma with breathing filter over his mouth. I've been in fires like that. You can take the damn mask off for three minutes while you give a live report. Total stunt and disgusting. I will continue to look for that video. It was ridiculous.
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:21 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > It is hard to tell from my vantage point if this is being covered much on > national TV. I live in the Upper Napa Valley (actually, in the hills above > the Valley). Our community is kind of in the middle of the three largest > fires, but so far does not seem to be directly threatened by any of them. > But our friends and neighbors down the hill to the north, west and south > have been devastated; thousands are homeless. Locations we have all grown > up with and enjoyed over the years have been damged or destroyed. Last I > heard about 17 of our neighbors in the two Valleys (Napa and Sonoma) have > been killed. This morning as I prepare to leave for work (about an hour > south of here, requiring driving along side some of the most effected > areas) I am not sure what the winds, reported to have kicked up and > strengthened, are going to do to road access. I may be coming back with a > crew later today from work to provide mental health services at some of the > relocation centers. It has been scary, exhausting and very difficult to > breathe. > > I do have a TV-related question though: We were without power or cell > phone service from around 9:50 pm Sunday night through sometime Tuesday > afternoon (power was back on when I got back from work at 7:30 pm). The ice > in my freezer (not in trays) was still in pretty well shaped cubes from the > automatic maker, and the drinks in the fridge were cold. We are trying to > figure out if the perishable food in the fridge can be saved, and wondering > if somehow the power was not out as long as we were told in our house (I > spent Monday night near the clinic where I work to make sure I could get > back to work the next day). > > When I looked at my DVR recordings (Comcast Xfinity X1), several programs > that I had scheduled to record on Monday evening were, in fact, there (e.g. > Monday Night Football, Colbert). This seems like evidence that the power > was actually on in my house Monday night, even though PG&E and many > neighbors report there was no power in my area. Is it possible that, even > with the power out, Comcast somehow recorded my programs for me and > delivered them to my DVR when the power came back on? And if so, does that > mean I could turn off or even unplug my cable box when I am not actually > watching it and still have all of my programs recorded and available when I > want them? (If so, I never knew that). > > If it is possible that the recordings were made even with my power off, > then I will have to assume we lost power for about 42 hours - and from what > I have seen from a Google search, food is only kept cold enough in a closed > fridge with the power off for about 4 hours (more like 48 in a freezer). My > wife is telling me to just through all perishable food out and not even > risk it, but for a couple of reasons the idea of throwing out so much food > that looks and mostly smells good is making me sad. > > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
