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Power Outage Yesterday was relatively nice day, until about 7pm... by 8pm, the wind was blowing the trees so severely, I thought they might break. ( thank goodness they did not, My neighbor has more than 30 trees in his back yard, it was a disaster before the rain, I'm sure after the wind and rain its even worst, I am just thankful they did not crash down on my house.) I'd never buy a house with that many 'large trees< It will cost his a fortune to clean it and have them removed. I don't think he has the ability to get that done. His trees keep my driveway dirty with pine combs and stuff from his trees, and the fall, all his leaves blow in my yard. ( I don't like it !!!!) but anyway, the rain and wind, thunder and lightening was so dominant last night, about 8:30 my power went out, it was out when I left home this morning about 11 am. Thank goodness I had taken the day off work. It's very odd trying to adjust to a house with no electricity. It's almost like trying to learn to live under different conditions. It was extremely quiet, which was somewhat ok, but the food in the freezer and refrigerator started to thaw. wouldn't you know it, my cell phone power ran out. I charged it a bit in my car, then went to my mothers house to charge it up. Trying to do anything in a dark house is very challenging. Some areas suffered lots of damaged, downed trees, broken telephone poles and some areas had flooding. thankfully my area is not prone to flooding, at least where my house is, but there has been flooding down the street before, as the houses sit at the bottom on the incline in the street. My house is at the upper part so the water flows down. I did however see where some seeped in my garage, but that is mostly because I need to change the pad on the bottom of the garage door. My dogs do no like it when the lights go out, they get that stunned look as if to inquire as to what is going on, But once I got the candles lit, they were a bit more relaxed. I want to install this home power unit, the Hardware store sells it for around $3-4 thousands- pluse connections fees. I think it sgood to have, but I also would like to buy a 'Sea Container" ad bury it in my back yard as a tornado shelter. I'd certainly enclose the power unit in a steel and brick enclosure, I don't know what the sea container cost, or the excavation to bury it, but I'm sure it could be done for probably 20K. the problem is, when I moved here 10 yrs ago, the area was mixed and well kept. But I see too many walking around, and I detest those who walk around with their pants saggin- it is an insult and should be to the individual who walks around with their pants saggin. I've talked to the councilman, about setting some neighborhood standards to insist that people who are laxed in maintaining their lawns and stuff, step up and get it right, or get a fine. I also suggest getting with banks, to change loan terms, to include "maintenance cost" as a means to protect their lending investment. because having a house is not about just making the payment, there is a 'upkeep cost involved' and there should always be 'neighborhood standards which are enforced when anyone does not meet it. That's how you preserve equity, and maintain the areas so that equity increases. some areas simply set their home prices so high, that people who don't understand the responsibility of maintenance, can't move in. Because if you can pay the higher cost, you at least understand something about maintenance cost. There are is not luxury homes, they are working peoples home, but that means it must meet and maintain a standard, because people value their investment or they should. I'd like to see them force the electric company to begin burying the power-lines in cement channel vaults, it makes no sense in the 21st century to have wooden telephone pole with wires strung across the and heavy transformers hanging on them. That should have been changed 60 or more years ago. Power is back on, yet the tornado warning and thunder storm are not gone either. So far things are good, I can some days leave home and leave my windows up to air out my house and no one bothers anything. I don't advertise anything, even when I had more cars and more bikes, I did not leave them out as enticement for people to ponder anything negative. I kept them in the garage and the garage door is closed unless I'm out trimming the hedges or such. It's time now to have someone come and trim the vegetation along my rear fence line. And it is certainly time to unload and sell the other house. I'd like to have rental properties, but they would have to be in areas where people pay a good price to rent and highly respectful tenants. No more renting to people in a "trying to help mode", because they simply will destroy a house and think nothing of it. I don't know what happen to society, where some people are just brutal on rental property. Its the most insidious thing I've ever seen. Geez !!!! Well, its thundering "again!!!!!! I guess we are in for another night of similar conditions....... ' 
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A tree fell on a house a few blocks from me.... Geez!!!!! I wish my neighbor would cut down some of his trees !!!!!
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I need to check my insurance and know what options exist if my neighbors tree falls on my house or property. I bought this house without seeing it first, I wish I'd seen it to know the neighbor had so many trees. I have no idea why people plant all those trees in a community housing development, as if they think the trees won't grow to full mass. I don't like the idea of moving, but I may have to consider it, since the community is changing and then the issue with the trees. I'd like to see the jack up the home prices to limit the accessibility of people who can't afford to maintain their property properly. I've written the council, but maybe I should put something together and send to realtors and banks, with ideas of how to protect the investment people make in homes. The best way to protect it is to make the cost prohibitive to any people who can't or won't maintain their property. It's not a black or white thing, because I see some of both who let their property go down, and I see some of both who do all they can to maintain their property in good condition. But maybe we can get a STRONG neighborhood Association to enforce some standards.
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I think it will be decades before this city wakes up and learn that it is best to bury the electrical wires in cement channel vaults. but first they'd have to get rid of all the 'do nothing executives" who currently occupy position and get people who have ethics and integrity, more than these desperate paycheck suck-ups. who can't think beyond how they can increase their own pay.
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