Sorry about the lack of update. My DSL stopped working last night.
Well, we ran out of gas at 9 pm. :cry3: I tried to siphon gas out of my van, but it has an anti-theft feature and siphoning is not possible. I got 2 gallons of gas from my gardener neighbor so we were set for a bit, but not enough to get us through the night. Someone posted to FB that Temecula had gas and power so I called the station to confirm and loaded up my empty gas cans and borrowed a couple from another neighbor and set off on a hour drive to get gas. I was praying that they still had gas when I got there, as I didn't have enough gas to drive home. Ooops.
When I arrived in Temecula, there was a line and the people at the pumps didn't seem to be pumping gas. There was some kind of computer glitch which they quickly fixed. I filled up the van, started filling up the cans and the pump shut off at $100. Apparently that is the limit set on my debit card for gas stations. So I had to swipe it again and filled up the rest of them.
Reports on the radio were that power was being restored to some areas. Unfortunately, my neighborhood was not one of them. I arrived home about 11:30 pm to a pitch black street. Hauled the gas into the back yard and filled up the generator. We were at least set for 10 hours at that point. Got a call from a friend who had power and were checking in on me. I finally got to bed about 1:30 am and still no power. Topped the generator up before I slid into bed.
I woke up to bedroom lights being on at about 3:15, got up switched the a/c to the electricity and turned the noisy generator off. Then crawled back into bed.
Thanks to Cindy for keeping up on the news and keeping me posted. I had my hands full getting and putting together the generator.
Kudos to the Arco station in Temecula (Old Town Front Street and Western Bypass) for not taking advantage of the situation and keeping their normal prices. There were a lot of San Diego people there getting gas. As it was, at normal prices my car and 15 extra gallons was $111 and some change. You can bet that whenever I'm in Temecula, I will be stopping there to get gas or a snack. I heard stories on the radio about random San Diego stations that were coming back on-line as power was being restored and charging $5.00 a gallon, because they could.