Generational issues.....

 8:17 am - Thursday - Christmas Day  - TWW - 45° F, humidity 78%, wind 13 mph out of the south by southwest....partly cloudy today with a forecast high of 53° F.  The view this morning......

.....and on this date 10 years ago TLE and I were at my son's home.....

.....in SoCal taking family pictures in front of their Christmas tree.

Christmas Eve began with blustery winds, and threatening rain clouds, and ended with wind driven rain into the evening, ending in the early morning hours sometime after 4 am.  Charles and I spent time troubleshooting an issue with their Champion 7500 watt, split phase generator, which is supposed to help charge their house batteries when there is no sun, and there was NO sun Christmas Eve.  The inverter is receiving 122 volts per leg, but is detecting no hertz.  The inverter must detect a frequency of 60 hertz (hz) before it all allows the current (244 volts) to charge the batteries.  We worked on it for a couple of hours with no success, so I guess it is back to the drawing board.

As you know, we have a Predator 500 dual fuel generator to assist in charging our house batteries on days like Christmas Eve, and it ran a lot over the course of the day.  Lack of sun is rarely a problem here at TWW, but when it is you need a generator to make up the deficit.

Meanwhile, this current weather system is reeking havoc all over the west, but primarily in California from north to south, and west to east.....there are flash floods, general flooding, torrential rain, and large accumulations of snow.  The weather guessers estimate this series of storms could dump between 150 and 200" of snow on the Sierra Nevada....that's between 12 and 17 feet of snow.

TLE prepared a chuck roast with a side salad, and baked potato for our communal dinner, and it was great.  We all gathered in the house for dinner around 4 pm, and by the time we headed back to the Newell it had begun to rain.  Sometime during the early morning hours I was awakened by wind driven rain against the driver side of the Newell.  It continued for an hour, or two which made it hard to sleep.  Looking forward to checking to see how successful our water catchment was last night....stay tuned!

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