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Well power went out 8 hours into two glaze fires going-good thing it was gas kilns.

Power company says 2,100 customers out of power -no time yet reported on fixing it-its been 2 hours so far.

I love natural draft gas kilns.

On a side  note my natural  gas 12kw generator kicked right in. Looks like a non issue.

Mark

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I've been fortunate, to only have power issues affect firing, three or four times in ten years.  It was with my classroom kiln, but sadly all of them were in one weekend, at the end of the year, when I was trying to get the projects done before the students left.

 

It was an especially stormy Spring, and the storms were causing issues, with the local power grid.  Luckily, the kiln had a controller, and it was easy to figure out, how long it had been firing, how hot it got, etc.  So in most cases, I just started it back up, and let it finish.  

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Are you affected by the drought we hear about on the news?

Was there a reason for the power outage?

The drought is a really big deal in most of this state. California is huge and the little sliver on the extreme northwest I'm in on the coast is doing OK compared to everywhere else.

 

I'm on a well (110 feetdeep ) but the local small cities are on a dam/river system and thats doing ok this year as the dam filled a few months ago.Its the only part of his state that has water. There is no way for the rest of the stae to get this water as its mountain ranges with no pipeline. So we haere have drinking water. On my recent trip down the whole state to Az. show you could see the devasation in the big valley(San Joaqin).

Be prepared to pay more for food especially vegetables as this will affect all states on pricing.

As to our rainfall I measure it on an annual basis our average is in the mid 30 inches-last year we had 24 inches-this year so far it 38 inches

a few years ago it was 54 and another year was 48.

We considered not having our vegetable garden last year but downsized it. This year we put in a rainwater roof catchment system on out metal roof kayak surf shed. The tank is only 1100 gallons but its gravity feed for the garden water(its almost full).Next year I'm thinking another larger tank on another roof for ag water.

Just inland from here its very dry and the lakes are all very low. Fire will be a very bad deal this year in this state.

Water shortage was not the reason-I do not know what happened yet but power outages are very common with all the trees here. It could be a simple equipment issue or someone takes out a power pole with the car.It may be in our weekly paper on Wens.

Mark

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Gee--I had not thought about power outages in relation to firing clay (duh!!). As far as the drought goes, I hope farmers--especially small and local businesses--in the rest of the country can and will plant, harvest and sell more of their vegetables. We're going to be paying more anyway so instead of it going to the giant corps it would be nice to be getting more local produce and supporting local farm families more. Maybe that is something good that can come out of this awful  drought, at least on the east coast. The fire threat is horrible...hope it does not materialize too badly. 

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