#carson valley

[ssroads]

Carson Valley In November

Highway 206, Foothill Road, Carson Valley, near Genoa and adjacent to Brockliss Slough. Photo © Glenn Franco Simmons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

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Another one that didn’t make the cut for the new book. 

Nevada’s Carson Valley is a special place that I’m lucky to spend a lot of time in. It’s fun to look at it from vantage points like this and think how wild and lawless it was 100 years ago. 

[wctruitt]

Carson Valley, Nevada

[sunspiritinspirations]

So nice coming over the Sierras

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[ahnsael]

UPDATE 10:33 p.m. Most Internet and cable service for customers in the South Lake Tahoe and Carson Valley region has been restored, according to Charter. The severed fiber option lines above the railroad tracks at Airport Road in Minden were reconnected one-by-one. According to Charter, there can be thousands of wires in each line.

Yesterday was rough.

Got home from work to find that we had no TV, no internet, no home phone with which to call Charter to find out what was going on, and not even CELL phone service through Verizon through which to call the cable company (and, once we realized we also had no cell service, to call Verizon and ask them). My parents actually drove to a Charter office to fond out why nothing worked.

No TV and no internet make Kenny something something.

It was all broken when I got home, and didn’t come back until right before I left for work last night. At about 10:20 we got TV back, five minutes later internet was back (and then out again after a couple minutes, then back again about ten minutes after that).

I mean...it beats last week’s power outage, but...it sure was a rough day at home because of it. Not even being able to look anything up about what was happening was frustrating.

But still...for me it was a mere frustration. But if anybody had an emergency, there was literally no way to reach 9-1-1. Well, at least not if they had a Charter, Sprint, or Verizon phone. I’m really hoping not to read any articles about deaths/injuries that could have been avoided if emergency services could have been reached (Verizon told my parents that they expect several lawsuits over the situation, though against whom they weren’t sure).

Everything at work was fine, though -- we have Frontier internet there, and DirecTV, and neither of those were affected by the outage (but hey, at least at my house we don’t lose our TV signals over rain or snow anymore like we did when we had satellite services in Washington).

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