Diamond Lake
7:36 PM · Jan 10, 2020Heres a short video I shot this past week up at Diamond Lake. https://youtu.be/xIn4VmXrACk
Heres a short video I shot this past week up at Diamond Lake. https://youtu.be/xIn4VmXrACk
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9:24 am: Most people‘s power should be restored now or very shortly. 8:41 am: Power restoration has begun. It will go in steps. As of 7:30 AM, Pacific Power has not located the root cause of this morning‘s power outage. Within 20 to 30 minutes, they are going to begin reenergizing certain areas, but some disruptions can still be expected until they figure out the cause. More updates to come as I receive them.
Ryan Finlay · 3h
Here’s the latest update from Pacific Power on the widespread power outage in Douglas County. There is a power outage affecting 32,508 customers in but not limited to Glide, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Roseburg, Sutherlin, Winchester, and Winston. The cause is under investigation. We have dispatched crews to investigate, make repairs and are working to restore your service as quickly as possible. For updates text STAT to 722797 or visit pacificpower.net/outage ______________________________________________________________________ Update 5:51am: There is a power outage affecting 35,779 customers in but not limited to Glide, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Roseburg, Sutherlin, Winchester, and Winston. The cause is under investigation. We have dispatched crews to investigate, make repairs and are estimating power to be restored by approximately 2:30pm. For updates text STAT to 722797 or visit pacificpower.net/outage Here is the latest update from Douglas Electric: 5:45 AM - Our entire south system is down including all members fed from our Umpqua, Melrose, Lookingglass, Tenmile and Camas Valley substations. This is a transmission outage meaning that our power supplier is down so we have no control over the repair timeline. As soon as we know more, we will update accordingly.
Ryan Finlay · 4h
We had a great time this morning cleaning up the Stewart Park Natural Area along Newton Creek. We removed an enormous amount of trash out of the creek and from along the banks of the creek. Big thank you to all our volunteers that came out, as well as an awesome group of Umpqua Community College Athletes as well as a few members of the UCC nursing program. Big shoutout to Julie Lowe and Umpqua Watersheds for sending volunteers over, and Hailey Malone and the City of Roseburg Parks Department for your help as well. For those who would like to know about our next cleanup in the Stewart Park Natural Area, you can sign up to the the Tracker Foundation email list here: https://www.trackerfoundation.com/newsletter
Ryan Finlay · 19h
I had a pretty amazing encounter up close with several river otters at Ford’s Pond in Sutherlin recently. These river otters are fascinating animals, very curious, and playful. They reminded me of a dog’s playfulness. More than once, they swam up close to check out my brother and I. They seemed amused. When the otters were hunting for fish, we noticed something interesting. Together they were all swimming around the fish and forcing them to the surface. When all the fish had nowhere to go, they jumped around at the surface. This made catching them much easier. After a catch, the otters would bring the fish over and eat them on the log right in front of us. Sometimes they would have a little fun with a fish - an otter would catch one, bring it to the log, set it down, and wait for it to flop off. Then race after it, haha. Almost like they were hunting for sport as well as for food. It was such a cool experience!
Elijah Finlay · 3d
"Indigenous people didn’t have water bombing helicopters, so they burned the land on calm, cool winter days, in coordination with neighboring tribes, in small rotating patchworks to prevent catastrophic growth and spread. Bad fires could and did still occur, but people everywhere did whatever they could to prevent them and the fossil and historical record shows they were mostly successful. Everywhere except in the contemporary West, where we imagine that our technological mastery excuses us from wild land curation and management. Even today, burning off the undergrowth every few years is a much more manageable approach to hazard reduction than, eg, the impractical army of laborers required to manually clear scrub on often extremely difficult terrain." Casey Handmer does an excellent job dissecting a large list of things that need to change when it comes to wisely stewarding the lands near our communities to prevent more catastrophic fires from happening in the future. https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/the-los-angeles-wildfires-are-self-inflicted/
Ryan Finlay · 3d
We are going to be doing a trash cleanup in the Stewart Park Natural Area on Monday, January 20th at 9am. The boys and I will be leading a cleanup of the trash along Newton Creek from the corner of Garden Valley Blvd into the Natural Area. The recent high water event washed a significant amount of trash down Newton Creek and fortunately some of it was deposited along the banks of the creek and didn't make it all the way to the South Umpqua River. Now we have an opportunity to pick up that trash before the next high water event. Anyone who would like to join us, bring gloves and if you have boots those can be helpful as well. There is some parking in the area we are going to be working as seen above in the area circled in blue. The entrance is across the street from the Starbucks on Garden Valley blvd. There is other parking nearby or you can park at the Duck Pond and walk over to where we are working. Also, for those who would like to work in a different area of our parks, Umpqua Watersheds and Thrive Umpqua is having a MLK Parks and River Cleanup event and they will be meeting at 9am at the Stewart Park Pavilion. They will be sending crews out to several other locations in Stewart Park and along the river.
Ryan Finlay · 4d
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Great video!
Jan 10, 2020
Nice work, Elijah. Even the music sounds wintry!
Jan 11, 2020