I probably could have hooked up the truck to the RV electrical system (in the normal when-traveling fashion) and run the engine for about an hour charging up the RV batteries. Too much hassle, a hotel is easier and saves wear and tear on the truck.
So we’re checked into a hotel for a couple of nights. When the power comes back on it will recharge the deep-cycle RV batteries, no problem. Looks like we rural foothill dwellers will have to invest in a generator for backup power.
I mentioned one theory of why we’re now getting on-purpose power outages, another is that the Sierra Club and Democrat greens in the legislature have prevented the sort of forest management that was once the norm. It almost requires a new law to cut down a tree on public land, even when fire danger conditions mandate doing so, as has been the case for a decade or more.
Extending our annual stay in Wyoming is looking better all the time, a choice that should be harder than it feels for two native Californians. California is no longer the optimistic, can-do, inventing-the-future kind of place it was when we were growing up.
