We have power!  We finally got power back Sunday afternoon- a little after 2:00.  All day Saturday we kept monitoring the PG&E website where they were estimating we would have power back by 8:01 p.m.  Around 4:00 p.m., the site suddenly changed from 530 houses affected by the power outage in my neighborhood to 19....and no estimate for those 19.  They didn't even have a idea what the problem was.  And yes, we were one of those 19 houses.  When I got up Sunday morning, still no update.  Around 9:00, there was a crew in the area, but still no update.  I think they finally updated the site around noon - still no estimate, but at least they acknowledged there were crews on site.  Finally, the lights came on!  Hallelujah!  Yes, we can manage to run the house with the generator, but it isn't my idea of a good time.....

Some photos of the snow:

The fence around the pool - you know it's wet snow when it builds up on a 3/4 inch fence this tall.....

The hummingbird feeder:

The heads by the fountain:

The Mazda - and no, I didn't drive it to work.  I did take the Volvo though - no power at work on Wednesday, so I got sent home.  We were able to open one branch around noon in the East side of Redding, but everyone else was closed.  We were able to open normally on Thursday, since City of Redding got power restored for our locations.  

The trees out front - we didn't lose many more branches than a normal wind storm, which surprised me.  There were trees down all over the neighborhood - a few of them into houses.

AJ took Luna out to the field to play in the snow....