SoCal Edison working on power lines in Temecula
Let me fill you in on a couple of secrets here at the Steussy Ranch. The server that runs this website and much of my email is located below the desk in my office, running Linux Ubuntu. At times in the past, I have leased a server at a colocation facility, but I find it convenient for tinkering to have my server physically close by. One of the disadvantages is when Southern California Edison decides not to send us electricity for a period of time, since I don’t have a battery/generator power backup for my system.
When SoCal Edison sends us a note that they might turn off our electricity in order to effect repairs, I send everything to a cheap, offsite server. It’s too small to deliver a full-blown copy of the home server, so it hosts full copies of the work websites and reduced copies of my personal sites.
Now, SoCal Edison has given us two such notices in the last month. We have not had a power outage yet. And the worksite is just down the road from us, so Aaron and I went to check it out. Lots of guys in hardhats talking on cellphones.
We checked back a couple of hours later (still no power outage), and the workmen and trucks were gone, but their equipment was still there on the ground. It can only mean that we’ll get another notice in the next couple of weeks.
And, whether they turn the power off or not, I still have to move the server off the system to prevent any damage to it. So, there will be another outage sometime soon. No, we don’t live in India or 2001 Enron-shocked California or any other power starved area. We’re just having some work done.
Aaron, the future Indianapolis Colt, checking out the work trucks