Calif. High Sierra: Isolate-at-(Snow-Covered)-Cabin?

The California High Sierra Mountains are beautiful in all seasons. In the winter, from the high elevation forested areas on up to beyond the tree line can be very deeply snow-covered. Intrepid skiers sometimes can rent cabins in the Big Trees Village area with names inspired by the fabled "Bigfoot" legend: the "Hairy Knuckle Forest," the "Big Foot Circle," and "The Big Toe."

The following paraphrased report from a local business in that forested mountain area provides an antidotal glimpse of recent local weather conditions:

(Excerpt) "...there were many power lines, trees, branches etc. down with the storm last week. We went up, but there were too many detours everywhere that we headed back down the hill. Plan to try again driving by more of the cabins once the weather clears..."

More Seriously Isolated-at-Home

MEDIA CREDIT: PG&E

CALAVERAS COUNTY – Two PG&E workers rescued an elderly man who was trapped in his home in Calaveras County for five days due to snow.

Stockon-based PG&E troublemen Adam Gossett and Ean Collins were in the area of Big Trees Village... working on restoring power impacted by a heavy storm when they said they heard a faint scream coming from a nearby home covered almost completely in snow, the utility said in a news release.

“He was saying ‘Help me’ and ‘I’m hungry,’ so we grabbed our bagged lunches and some water and made our way to him,” Collins said.

The utility said the man had blown a whistle for two days as a call for help and placed “Please help!” signs in his windows with no luck.

PG&E said the workers found that the 74-year-old man had been trapped in his home for nearly a week and was without food, power, heat, or a phone.

“He was shivering and clearly in distress,” Gossett said.

Gossett and Collins called 911, PG&E said, and responders found the man was a diabetic and in need of additional care.

“He said he had been praying for someone to help him. I told him, ‘God answered your prayers today,’” Gossett said.

MEDIA CREDIT: CBS13, 3.22.2020

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Empty Nest Transition

As grown children leave the family home, the married couple remaining is in what might be described as the empty nest transition phase of their lives. Reportedly, a study that included this phase of a marriage was published in the journal Psychological Science. This study by three UC Berkley professors questioned 123 women during 18 years (1981-1998). The findings seem to suggest that, for some, happiness actually increases during this empty nest transition.

"We were a couple again, two individuals who chose to live together and be with each other. At first, it is very quiet, but there is a lot of good in the lack of noise. We got good at having conversations. Our time is about us."

"The transition to an empty nest may be associated with an increase in the quantity of time and energy invested in one's marriage, an increase in the quality of time spent with one's partner ... ".

Note: The original post over at SFGate.com Marriage Gets Better When Kids Leave the Nest has generated 201 comments, at this writing. Not all comments were ... ah, completely supportive of the study's findings. However, ask empty-nester couples and -- my guess is -- the study's findings will be validated by most responses.

Book Review:
Desperate Passage, by Ethan Rarick (non-fiction).
Excerpt below from Chapter 1, "Jumping Off" (start page 17):

"For all their money, the Donners and their traveling companions, the Reeds, were just unremarkable families from Illinois, ready to join the great migration to the west. The problem was that they were late. [They] had been told repeatedly to reach Independence [Missouri] by ... April ... at the latest ... For some reason, however, the two families did not leave Springfield [Illinois] until mid-April and reached Independence only on May 10. The bulk of the California-bound emigrants were already out on the trail. The Springfield families took but a day to rest ... then hustled out of town in hopes of catching up. It was less obvious at the time than it would be later, but the sad fact was that the journey had barely begun, and the core of what would become the Donner Party was already lagging behind."

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