Yes, we have no bananas and we are rationing what’s left of our milk. For the last 5 days there have been no milk or bananas or a lot of other stuff in our local HEB stores. Today there was very little produce at all and most of the shelves in the store were empty. It has been 6 days since the first storm went through and yesterday electricity was being restored throughout the state though everything is still not online. I remember reading one time that we live about 2 weeks away from famine and now I believe it. I’m sure that a lot of the citrus and produce that is grown in the Rio Grande Valley was killed by the hours of hard freezing that we endured. North of here fared much worse and they still haven’t cleared their roads of ice and snow. But it is starting to warm up so things will get better. My proud state was brought to its knees by this winter storm. I am now resisting the urge to politicize my commentary. You can fill in the blanks. We were fortunate here at Palmdale in that we never lost electricity. We think it may be because we are next door to a facility called Comprehensive Health Services which houses hundreds of immigrant children and they had to keep electricity going for them.
Last Wednesday, we received our second Moderna Vaccine and now we feel pretty safe when we go out into the world. We invited 7 of our vaccinated friends for dinner in our house last Monday night. None of us wore masks. I commented on the momentous occasion that it was but we just ate and visited and enjoyed being warm indoors and it all seemed so normal. We didn’t even talk about the Coronovirus or politics. It was the strangest thing and yet so ordinary… a throwback to another era.. .
Other than that, there is not much going on. SpaceX is building rockets and getting ready to test SN10. One of the great things that SpaceX did was to provide a generator to the Turtle Rescue Center so that they could keep thousands of sea turtles alive that otherwise would have died from the cold. You can check their website at seaturtleinc.org.
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| Ice cycles on the neighbor's eaves |
