We still have a landline. We keep it for the sake of business. We dropped AT&T years ago and get phone service thru our (local) internet provider. Our phone, our internet, and the business domain come to us for $79 a month. Not a bad deal. Our internet is owned by the high school in Mendocino...
We pay a high price in multiple ways, I guess. Being California born I am used to quakes and they don't really scare me. The scaredest I've ever been is when I went to Kansas to visit my daughter and there was a tornado nearby. I will take a shaker over a tornado anyday!!
Jerry is great. He's been clearing brush and trees in our yard, which keeps an old guy busy. He tells me he is just taking a break from the forums. He'll be back eventually. Thanks for asking, Cory.
An interesting bit of information regarding the quake. Right after it happened I had a dentist appt and as I walked in the receptionist was on the phone with her daughter, who is an arborist in Humboldt County (where the quake happened). She was 100 ft up a redwood doing some limbing when the...
We survived the so called "Bomb Cyclone" just fine. They tend to sensationalize these storms, but we prepared just in case. We had 11 inches of rain in 3 days at our house, winds gusting around 50. Lots of branches to clean up in the yard and a couple old staubs down, one across the big phone...
I remember that, Max. It was big news here. Of course I was just a small kid but my big brother was fascinated by Sputnik. The whole country was fascinated. Nice thread!
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