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Chris Landis

20 Feb, 7 tweets, 3 min read

@Verizon

Day 8, still no power.

@Verizon customers(myself and several neighbors included) are without service again. I'm posting this from the hotspot in my truck. Yesterday I caved and bought a generator, there was only one model left in stock, and I got one of the last two of those.

I wasn't able to find a transfer switch kit, or the cable I needed to properly connect parts of the house to the generator. My search for those will continue today. Yesterday most of the gas cans(2 gallon and up) and flashlights(anything with power) were selling fast.

@Arbys

Drove up to McMinnville for the transfer switch and a couple extension cords plus other supplies. First decent hot meal in a bit from @Arbys. If I stop tweeting it's probably due to a heart attack from this half pound of beef.

@IwriteOK

Cell service seems to have been restored a few minutes ago. Power/tree crews were seen working closer to the highway as I drove back in from Mac. At around midnight tonight I'll be at 9 days, which I think ties @IwriteOK for his longest 'without power' story. 🤠

Was about to head to bed... But then folks over in BLM started shooting.

Is this what forests maintained by the BLM should sound like at 1am?

Because this is what they sound like at 1am. Great place to relax and get some rest after a week of trying to recover from a storm without power. This is starting to feel like a JSS I stayed at in Iraq... fun stuff.

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Chris Landis

@comradecamera

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WHY WE SHOOT DEER IN THE WILD

(A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this).

I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.

The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the

truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

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Chris Landis

@comradecamera

22 Feb

Day 10. Still no power.

Cleaning up and cutting wood continues. Removed one of the larger widowmakers hanging over the drive and had dinner with the neighbors yesterday. Power is at the end of the road now, just a few houses away (about a mile). Still no estimate on restoration

I've seen folks in other countries use a metal coat hanger and some luck to get power to their houses... Just gotta hook the right wires.

@portlandgeneral

There was some confusion today with a @portlandgeneral crew, their dispatch and a neighbor. Apparently our street has power(its not) and the ground crew told the neighbor his shop was powered(its not) so his problem was between his house and shop.

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Chris Landis

@comradecamera

21 Feb

Day 9. Still no power.
Shooting has been constant since earlier this morning.

https://twitter.com/comradecamera/status/1363413498462490626?s=19

This was last night at around 1am:

https://twitter.com/comradecamera/status/1363413498462490626?s=19

The people this particular area attracts are of the shoot-first variety. A couple years back I was contacted to help find a lost dog up on the peak. It had a harness and service dog tags. It spooked in a storm and took off down a steep hill. The owners unable to find him that day

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Chris Landis

@comradecamera

24 Jan

I'm at ICE again.
As the march was leaving the park a Portland Street car came up from behind, the crowd parted to let the streetcar through. For a few short blocks a Portland bureau of transportation SUV followed the protest making sure no cars could get near the crowd. Weird.

So in case I get shot I just want to get this out here. The snipers are back out tonight, I found a good position to take pictures of them I took a few one of them started looking back at me with binoculars. His rifle is now aimed at me.

This was the first picture, I'm going to try to post these chronologically. after I noticed these rifles were posted on the top of the ice building I walked about a half block away to get a better angle.

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@comradecamera

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I'm at I'm at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in the south waterfront district of portland. This announcement was made and people are now swarming into the street to March on the ICE building during an #AbolishICE protest.