Power Outage

Still helping his stoical 99-year-old mother endure a prolonged power outage following the heaviest snow dump in Redding, California, in over fifty years.

A wood stove (and a supply of wood), an indoor propane heater and a generator helped The Idiot’s 99-year-old mother stay warm and endure an absurdly long power outage in downtown (yes, downtown) Redding, California, in the wake of the heaviest snowstorm in over fifty years.

The Idiot’s 99-year-old mother points out that it makes sense to have a landline telephone and a charged iPad during an inexplicably prolonged power outage in downtown (yes, downtown) Redding, California, in the wake of the heaviest snowstorm in over fifty years.

Chocolate helps The Idiot’s 99-year-old mother endure a ridiculously long power outage following a heavy snowstorm in downtown (yes,downtown) Redding, California.

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Posted on February 16, 2019 by Joel in Idiotic Musings, Style, USA, Weather, Where is the idiot

About Joel

Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."

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