PG&E, our power company has a planned blackout scheduled for this weekend. Great timing! Not. Hopefully the combination of an ice chest and dry ice will be enough to save to $300 plus worth of groceries we acquired about a week ago.
And what if it doesn't?
Well, rest assured that PG&E will be the recipient of a bill from Matt and I demanding a reimbursement. I am just grateful that neither of us are on a permanent ventilator that we would have to put on a backup generator for the weekend; talk about extra costs!
And why are they doing this? Well, our neighborhood (colloquially referred to by the police as "The Grow Show" for the mass amounts of illegal marijuana growing that takes place) experiences blackouts due to this excessive power usage and surges also due to the growing. Due in large part to this, PG&E must revamp our neighborhood in order to provide the correct wattage for continued prosperity of "The Grow Show"... I must say that not only am I inconvenienced by this (as I am a sick girl and TV offers my only relief (aside from brief cpu reprieves) as my eyes have a very difficult time focusing on, well, anything right now) but I am also sickened at the prospect of wasting so much food; particularly at a time when our cups do not runneth over.
At least it is clear here that green talks, and since PG&E makes a killing off of "The Grow Show", they want to protect it. "Rule followers" be damned!
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