Staycation: day five.

Power still off, but outside is warming up. So now it’s a big ice rink outside with people playing bumper cars with the real things.

Not interested in partaking in that particular contact sport, and as a result I’m still not leaving the house even if the worry about frozen pipes is fading.

Instead trying to see how far I can get on the remaining merge window pulls on just battery power. Not very far I bet, but at least something.

PGE claims power back tonight. Of course, they did that yesterday too…

@torvalds Good luck! 🥶

Here's some fire to help out! 🔥

@torvalds Oops. Hell froze over here too. :(

@torvalds To their credit, PGE workers have been super quick to get that 150k customers number down to under 15k in the past three days.

@torvalds That’s rough. I hope your house is well insulated (unlike ours, sigh) and that you can stay warm.

@torvalds is there a forest nearby? do you have solar panels or a bike lamp and a fan??

@tommythorn Well insulated? I wish. Old leaky house. “It has character”

@torvalds I like the “captain’s log; day XX” vibe of the reporting here.

@torvalds

Stay warm.

@torvalds The ice storm dropped both grid and internet here this morning, so I suspect the PGE work queue has only increased. One does wonder what scheduler algorithm they're using?

@torvalds Stay safe!

@torvalds I thought you would have invested in large battery system to keep you with power for laptop and microwave for a couple of months 😜

@torvalds Best of luck to you, hopefully PGE is telling the truth this time!

@torvalds I had this idea for a project a while back to see what kind of backup power system I could make with several car batteries in parallel and an inverter.

@torvalds do you have a PV System to recharge the battery?

@torvalds Good luck, Linus. Hopefully you get a UPS next time.

@torvalds You probably have very big battery available -- in the car. You can even recharge it using the combustion power. That should give few days of computer use...

@torvalds Here's hoping it comes on, soon! 🙏🏻

@torvalds Scientifically this is expressed as: cars + ice + hills = angry insurance people. Stay safe, sir!