Well, this was real ! - #2 DENALANE.BLOGSPOT.COM

Just for fun, the 3 minute Paradise Point RV Park December 2020 video :

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YikQKIquBUo

and,     https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=42

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Well, this was real ... a Tuesday evening wind storm, a Wednesday evening rain, a Thursday and even a Friday repeat threat   .......

It was a "dry" windstorm... no rain, certainly not the sea storm we were expecting.   .  with peculiar "no hammer" wind gusts, they simply stayed at 15-20 mph above the wind speed, and peaked @ around 60-65 mph,  the few "big" gusts we had were very long-sustained winds (not hammers) at 78, 81, and two at 85 mph)... but, 60-70 mph were the typical.  

Not a big storm for dry land (other than the tree threat), our air bag suspension lets us rock and roll sort of like being back on the boat, but, here we have no loose gear to fly around, no boats to break loose and become battering rams, no surging heaving seas beneath your feet, no dock to continuously slam up against, and only wind noises, no growling moorage lines, hull slapping water, or howling deck wires, lanyards, masts, and rails whistling and screaming from 50 other boats.

We had a one hour long power outage, but never fired the generator, all-in-all other than the tree threat, it was easy-peezy. Now, for Wednesday, they talked of a Thursday night second "Bomb Cyclone" headed our way bringing the rain we did not get...and more 70 mph wind... a monsoon/deluge rain is no problem for us, trees and wind "are"... Wind OK, Trees bad !

In town, at 0900 Wednesday AM over 1,000 were still out of power in downtown ! with a 1600 estimated time of having power again....  Thursday night Phase 2 was predicted -same storm, again- ...that was a fizzle, and Friday nights stars said there would be no "Phase 2".

The big November issue (for us) has been broadband (wifi) access, how is yours ?

Since we moved in here on 15 September, we honestly have been too busy settling in, unpacking, learning the ropes, and transferring everything to Curry, migrating blog and web sites over, plus doing the usual ongoing maintenance issues we all endure.... to concentrate on, or evaluate the broadband internet (wifi) connection.

Now that we are past all of that, past the election, and approaching the year-end holiday season, we are November-aware that this system is off-on-off-on-off  24/7 and barely useable, (mostly) unuseable, for our basic needs.  Being an optic cable install by Ziply Fiber, with a Nokia ONT, and all TP-link DECO mesh routers and AP's, it is almost top-of-the-line equipment, so, for it not to be functioning is technologically insulting.  Like potable water, garbage service, grey and black water disposal, and reliable electric power, wifi television, the internet and VOLP cell service has become an American "basic" need (especially with the advent of fiber-optic broadband wifi).

To discuss this, and other issues, we are thinking of a years-end Sunday afternoon "Meeting of the 12", or a Potluck?  if we can get access to the empty-unused office facility, we could all get together and vent (out of the rain) ... as a small community we need to communicate, and solve our own problems.

With our roadbed not loving the rains, and our horticulturalist (Nancy) now being gone, there are landscape issues coming for spring, the locked shower and laundry facilities are unknowns, and cleaning, plus some discussions on potentially "really"... cold weather water protection, and maybe other issues that need to be on the table.  

Everyone have a good safe holiday, and please think about doing a get-together.

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