1.
Folks, on a personal note:

After 3 weeks of living in town and working at least 40 hours a week. I am going back home. This means I will be here rarely. As still no power, nor internet at my little neighborhood in the forest. What I am planning to do, is save up all those nice link posts, and when I do get into town dump them all at once. I will still be working two days a week, and will stay in town that one night.

This also means that Magazine day will change from Friday to Sunday.

2.
For all the new people, I live way out on the edge of the Willamette National Forest, in central Oregon. The fires were very bad this year. My place escaped the flames, by about 10 miles. Power will be off for quite a while, and we have no idea if we can re-run coax, or fiber, up the hill for internet. Yes satellite is an option, and we are looking into it.

Everyone is healthy and in good sprits. The kids go into town twice a week, to connect.

We have 2 satellite phones, for emergences.

3.
We now have three generators running intermittently, One for the well pump, and refrigeration, and freezers. One for general use, and lighting. One to run 3 inline water heaters, for hot showers, and such. Almost luxury. Gas use is a lot less than I would have assumed. But this is not sustainable, we still are dependent on electrical mains.

The solar panels have been taken off the well and ISP system and are being used for charging and such.