So Who Was Up All Night?

[TPC]

Daylight Savings time has the animals wanting to be fed an hour earlier than normal, so up for that.

Alice has been up all night in bed writing hand written Cards to 40 co workers enclosed with a high quality, ground lens, neon light, custom ordered and engraved pocket flashlights.
Night Shift Nurses work in the dark, a good flashlight is essential.

At her goodbye party she'll distribute the flashlights and handwritten cards then.

2 more shifts this week and she is retired at a young age.

Who's been up all night?

 

[Backlash]

Compliments of the winds here in the San Gabriel Valley. The trunk of the tree in the first picture is almost 5' across. It's all been cut up and temporarily stacked up on the median until morning.

 

[TPC]

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Compliments of the winds here in the San Gabriel Valley. The trunk of the tree in the first picture is almost 5' across. It's all been cut up and temporarily stacked up on the median until morning.

Brutal.
What kinda wood is that?

 

[whiteworks]

It was an uneasy night with the wind ripping all night, when it comes from the north mike this over the mountain it hits our neighborhood broadside and hard. Powers been out all night there is a huge tree down the street that took out some lines, but the outage is widespread as SCE just pulled the plug on a few thousand homes as precaution.

Wind died down about 3:00am so I went out to look around the property, so far we’ve lost a few branches but nothing major, since I was up I went by my pops place to assess and it all looked good for a quick drive by. Then I went by my office at the airport to see if things were okay there, everything checked out okay, all the planes were fine and no damage.

Got back home and now the wind is picking back up. Not sure if I’m up for the day at this point or gonna hit the sack for a bit

 

[RitcheyRch]

Didn't sleep well with the wind howling and the phone alert woke me up earlier than usual.

 

[Gramps]

Up since 2..........wind, animals want food, figuring out who gets sent to the fires if we go.

 

[Backlash]

Brutal.
What kinda wood is that?

I have no idea Sir. I was laughing the whole time because this crew showed up with a vengeance! Complete with GAS powered chainsaws that would have impressed the saltiest lumberjacks out there! No sissy-ass "Go green" battery powered BS trimmers. These men had the big boy tools!!

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

Wind is blowing hard here in Riverside woke up a few times last night

 

[TPC]

Wind is blowing hard here in Riverside woke up a few times last night

Trash day here. Garbage cans blowing over and escaped empty beer cans rolling down the street.

 

[Icky]

I ratchet strapped my trash cans to my rv gate and then strapped the lids closed. I was tired of hearing them banging around and the lids slamming open

 

[attitude]

Trash day here. Garbage cans blowing over and escaped empty beer cans rolling down the street.

Same here, my cans were still up when I left but tons of cans throughout the neighborhood were blown over. I’m sure I’ll be tracking my cans down when I get home.

 

[SOCALCRICKETT]

Got a call at 0145 and ended up having to life flight the patient out to a stroke center.


It was a good night, I didn't think I'd have any airships available with the wind

 

[Ziggy]

Had trouble getting to sleep last night with the wind noise. Slept ok but woke early(3-4am??) and the wind seemed to have layed down but by 6 it was howling like a pack of banshees again.

 

[jeteater1]

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Compliments of the winds here in the San Gabriel Valley. The trunk of the tree in the first picture is almost 5' across. It's all been cut up and temporarily stacked up on the median until morning.

Man i should bring my trailer in.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Up until 2 or so, and up at 5...no wind to speak of really, not all that cold either. Lots going on here, but also thinking of people I know Cali. The images on the news or horrid...but I did admire the FD guy using the bulldozer on the cars. @TPC , glad your wife is healing up and heading out. I hope there's another to take her spot though. Some of us know nurses can be a bright light at a dark time.

 

[zhandfull]

Mom had some damage in Rancho Cucamonga. Lost the rear patio cover and couple Italian ficus trees in the pool.

Her neighbor lost most of shingles on north facing section of roof.

 

[Done-it-again]

Slept pretty good. But again we are used to this type of wind in north Fontana off the 15 and 210.

 

[4Waters]

Rolling on about 3hrs of broken sleep max, wind was brutal

 

[240Hallett]

Slept pretty good. But again we are used to this type of wind in north Fontana off the 15 and 210.

Did you lose power? We lost it between about 8:30 and 1030 last night. Near Archibald below Baseline.

 

[Done-it-again]

Did you lose power? We lost it between about 8:30 and 1030 last night. Near Archibald below Baseline.

No, we are in hunters ridge but had light flicker about 8:30 but never shut off. We have never lost power in the 12 yrs during the windy season.

 

[RVRKID]

Did you lose power? We lost it between about 8:30 and 1030 last night. Near Archibald below Baseline.

NEver even flickered, I think it was worse in Rancho and Upland. My room shook a few times but I slept most of the night.

 

[TPC]

Power is out in 2/3 of Simi.

 

[Jefftowz]

Powers out at our place in the West SF valley. Winds were crazy all night. Worst I can remember.

 

[Ladsm]

My pool in BHC has an inch of mud in it. Had to shutoff the pump and going to have to manually pump out the mud. I was up all night dispatching generators to our LA stores that got the power shutoff.

 

[Chili Palmer]

A tree took out the power lines in my neighborhood around 7:30 last night, was in bed by 8:30, but since there was no power I couldn’t use my bipap machine and slept for shit snoring and waking myself up. Got up at 3:30 with a headache and still no power. Has to use my Makita flashlight to light up my bathroom to take a shower. With no power the house was cold this morning. Good thing I packed a Celsius in my lunch, I was getting drowsy driving up to Lancaster this morning. Wife says still no power at home and can’t find shit about an ETA when it might be back on at the SCE power outage website.

 

[SOCALCRICKETT]

My pool in BHC has an inch of mud in it. Had to shutoff the pump and going to have to manually pump out the mud. I was up all night dispatching generators to our LA stores that got the power shutoff.

How bad was the wind up by you, my wife said she didn't really get anything too crazy in havasu, last I heard you guys were expecting 60+ mph winds

 

[Ladsm]

How bad was the wind up by you, my wife said she didn't really get anything too crazy in havasu, last I heard you guys were expecting 60+ mph winds

It had 60mph gusts off/on, been steady 20-30 all day.

 

[TPC]

Up all night tonight and last night wife having nightmares from work.
Though retired, seems like the nightmares are worse now. Yeah, much worse.

She worked with test drugs and test study chemos that the Federal Authorities only allowed on in-patient terminally ill patients.
Cart T for Leukemia and other studies as well as treating those that may survive with other treatments.
She gets to know the patient and the family and then, they are gone.

Introverted, kind and compassionate,, it's taken a toll on her psyche'.

 

[Ducksquasher]

Up all night tonight and last night wife having nightmares from work.
Though retired, seems like the nightmares are worse now. Yeah, much worse.

She worked with test drugs and test study chemos that the Federal Authorities only allowed on in-patient terminally ill patients.
Cart T for Leukemia and other studies as well as treating those that may survive with other treatments.
She gets to know the patient and the family and then, they are gone.

Introverted, kind and compassionate,, it's taken a toll on her psyche'.

Sorry to hear that...amazing work and kudos to her though!

 

[rrrr]

Up all night tonight and last night wife having nightmares from work.
Though retired, seems like the nightmares are worse now. Yeah, much worse.

She worked with test drugs and test study chemos that the Federal Authorities only allowed on in-patient terminally ill patients.
Cart T for Leukemia and other studies as well as treating those that may survive with other treatments.
She gets to know the patient and the family and then, they are gone.

Introverted, kind and compassionate,, it's taken a toll on her psyche'.

I hope it gets better over time.

My sister retired after 34 years as a pediatric trauma nurse. When she first started, sometimes she would tell me about the experiences. I had to ask her to stop. I don't know how she managed the mental part of it.