Still homeless

Six days without electricity and not much hope that we'll get it restored today. I'm getting kind of used to living in the back room of the Post Library. However, I did get in trouble with the JPL director today. When I returned from the Y, I found a notice on my car that it was going to be towed. It said that it was illegal to leave a car parked on the lot when the library was not open. So I had to apologize profusely to the director for not having reported our living arrangements. She said that JPL employees could not stay in the building because of liability issues. I guess I win on a technicality (not a JPL employee) so we can stay.

Here's a picture of Dale in his temporary office over at Columbia Traders. He was able to use their free wireless to do his schoolwork until he could go to his real office. That's Gingy Laas, history professor, at the table behind him. She lives 2 blocks north of us on Sergeant, so she was in the same boat. She's been living in Jane Wyman's law office downtown and showering at the Y like we have.


This is what we did Wednesday night. Columbia Traders has been preparing thousands of meals to deliver to the Empire District workers, staying up late at night preparing them So rather than just sit around the Post Library Wed. night, we went over to help. It was kind of fun. Bob & Crystal Harrington, their daughters and sons-in-law, were all there helping. Our friends Joe and Diana Earhart came, too. We worked for almost 4 hours and bagged up over 700 meals & snacks. Bob & Crystal are at this end; that's me on the right side of the table.

Here's Jeff Neal after he's loaded the U-Haul to deliver the meals to Hammons Center, where all the out-of-town workers are headquartered. We went out last night to look at the setup. We must get a photo of that. Amazing! Row after row after row of bucket trucks. Looked almost like one of those battle scenes from Star Wars.

Back at our house, the construction continues. They've insulated the garage and put up sheetrock. They're building the forms for the poured concrete retaining walls. Jeff bought a generator so they could have electricity for their tools. They also brought in a heater so the garage would be warm while they were working.