I've seen some devastating videos from California due to the excessive rain and high winds you guys are having. I believe it extends from San Diego to southern Oregon, maybe even more. I hope everyone stays safe. Good Luck to All.
That's what I always worry about, the poor animals. So many left behind when the people have to vacate. Along with all the wild ones.I feel bad for just about every outdoor animal in LA currently…
Well at least you won't have to run your sprinklers for a day or two...We've had 2 power outages so far. One while I was away at the Pomona Reptile show and I had to drive home early and Tom and Will had to cover the show for me and Tom took all my show stuff home with him. I had to buy 2 generators in the LA area when stores opened Sunday morning and drive home 5-1/2 hours as all stores in our area were out of generators. The tortoises were without power for about 8 hours. The power went out 11PM Sat and first thing Sun morning a friend living closer by cam over with a generator to loan us. Brenda ran power cords to all enclosures and night boxes. I converted over to the new generators when I got home about 2PM. We had lots of pasture flooding the previous storms and this one, but this was the first power outage. Power was restored about 5PM Sunday, but then had another outage 2AM Mon morning that lasted about 2 hours. Last night a big lightning storm but not power outage. @NorCal tortoise guy did loose power last night and has everything running on generator now.
Our pastures are flooding with so much rain but does drain down within several hours of the rain stopping. Here's a picture of the Galapagos winter pasture. I did build the night houses on an elevated pad to ensure the night house does not flood with them locked inside. This is as high as the water gets in these past storms:
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Here's the same area yesterday afternoon:
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southern Oregon,
Yes this is our second power outage this week. Power went out at 4am this morning. Two power poles blew over and broke, down the street from us. They are working on replacing the poles now. Hope they get us up and running soon! We have had some wind damage of our own as well. Lots of tree branches coming down thankfully not on our house. Shingles blowing off the roof and fence posts being ripped out of the ground.We've had 2 power outages so far. One while I was away at the Pomona Reptile show and I had to drive home early and Tom and Will had to cover the show for me and Tom took all my show stuff home with him. I had to buy 2 generators in the LA area when stores opened Sunday morning and drive home 5-1/2 hours as all stores in our area were out of generators. The tortoises were without power for about 8 hours. The power went out 11PM Sat and first thing Sun morning a friend living closer by cam over with a generator to loan us. Brenda ran power cords to all enclosures and night boxes. I converted over to the new generators when I got home about 2PM. We had lots of pasture flooding the previous storms and this one, but this was the first power outage. Power was restored about 5PM Sunday, but then had another outage 2AM Mon morning that lasted about 2 hours. Last night a big lightning storm but not power outage. @NorCal tortoise guy did loose power last night and has everything running on generator now.
Our pastures are flooding with so much rain but does drain down within several hours of the rain stopping. Here's a picture of the Galapagos winter pasture. I did build the night houses on an elevated pad to ensure the night house does not flood with them locked inside. This is as high as the water gets in these past storms:
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Here's the same area yesterday afternoon:
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Where abouts in oregon are you, brookings?I'm in southern Oregon 30 minutes north of the CA border and although we are used to rain, the WINDS are HORRIBLE!!
I'm originally from SoCal and have many years experience with the Santa Ana winds. But the wind we've had here the last week is worse than any I've ever encountered.
The wind ripped the shingles off my tortoises night house! I don't even know where they went. Blew right out of my yard.
Our spa cover has blown off a few times despite being secured- our fence has blown down in 3 places (not fully blown down but very wobbly and significantly leaning and in need of repair)- decor and trash has blown everywhere and I have many friends with tree damage on their properties.
We lost power a few times. once it was only for a few hours in the middle of the day and a couple times it was momentary.
Medford. No one here ever expected winds like that! Brookings is 3/4 hours north of me on the coast.Where abouts in oregon are you, brookings?
same here...my shingles landed 4 houses down....I'm in southern Oregon 30 minutes north of the CA border and although we are used to rain, the WINDS are HORRIBLE!!
I'm originally from SoCal and have many years experience with the Santa Ana winds. But the wind we've had here the last week is worse than any I've ever encountered.
The wind ripped the shingles off my tortoises night house! I don't even know where they went. Blew right out of my yard.
Our spa cover has blown off a few times despite being secured- our fence has blown down in 3 places (not fully blown down but very wobbly and significantly leaning and in need of repair)- decor and trash has blown everywhere and I have many friends with tree damage on their properties.
We lost power a few times. once it was only for a few hours in the middle of the day and a couple times it was momentary.
Yikes!! your human house shingles or tortoise house shingles ?same here...my shingles landed 4 houses down....
house...bought new $50 for the 10 shingles I needed...the shingles weren't the only thing ripped offYikes!! your human house shingles or tortoise house shingles ?