[Leica] Strange day yesterday

[Don Dory]

Is the smoke causing further electric blackouts/ brownouts due to much
lower solar generation during the day?  It would seem that with the fires
and generally greater temperatures that folks would be staying indoors and
running the AC if they have that.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020, 7:18 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Yeah.  We were generating 130 Watts.  Whoo Who.   We can get almost 4.6 KW
> when the sun is peak.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard L Ritter Jr
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 9:13 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Strange day yesterday
>
> Kind of ironic juxtaposition of your gloomy daylight with the optimistic
> image of solar panels being installed on your roof!
>
> —howard
>
> > On Sep 8, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Starting after I sent my last email about the cleanup, the winds picked
> up
> > and blew all day.  Then around 4 PM the light got really strange
> outside.
> > The combination of dust, smoke and the sun lit the inside of the house
> > with this yellowish light that made us feel like we were on a different
> > planet.  I took a few shots out the window, put them on my laptop and
> > looking out at the light made sure the captured image was as close to
> the
> > “reality” outside that I could make it.  I never before had had the
> > opportunity to take  photo and then be sure it matched with what I had
> > seen before.  So, this is really what the light looked like outside.
> View
> > large if you want.
> >
> > Looking sort of south where we normally see the hills past the town and
> > Mt. Adams in the distance.:
> >
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Strange+Light-1000297.jpg.html
> >
> > Looking the opposite direction:
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Strange+Light-1000296.jpg.html
> >
> > We had to rescue a neighbor dog who was outside and the owners were on
> > their way back from Seattle.  It is mostly calm and clear today.  Might
> > even go for out walk or bike ride.
> >
> > Aram
> >
> >
> >
> > Semi- Retired Science Teacher and Unemployed Photographer
> >
> > “The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin
> himself
> > would ever have dared dream.” James D. Watson
> >
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