I never heard about the Southwestern Power Administration. It was a creation of Sam Rayburn, it's like a small Tennessee Valley Authority but only is in the hydroelectric and power distribution business. It still distributes low cost power to mostly municipal power systems serving 8 million customers.
One of those brands was Dick's Sporting Goods, a national retailer with a substantial presence in the both the hunting and shooting markets, which has now lost about $250 million after taking a stance less than two years ago.
CEO Ed Stack decided not only to stop selling certain guns and to hire lobbyists to push for stricter gun-control policies, but he also chose to stop selling firearms to customers under the age of 21 and had the company destroy $5 million of rifle inventory.
The Sandalwood fire, named for a street near the mobile home park, began last Thursday around 2 p.m. and burned more than 1,000 acres over five days. It started when the driver of a garbage truck dumped a “hot load” — a pile of burning trash — along the side of 7th Street, said Capt. Fernando Herrera, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Garbage trucks often haul a dangerous cocktail of combustible items — batteries, pesticides, paint — and it’s not unheard of for drivers to dump a simmering load, Herrera said. Many residents of the mobile home park said it seemed unnecessarily reckless to drop the load next to a canyon of dry shrub backing up to the park. Ultimately, the fire destroyed 76 mobile homes and killed Arvickson and a second victim, whom officials haven’t yet publicly identified.
During the second half of October, the weather gets much cooler with much earlier sunsets. Winter starts creeping in, and within a few weeks we might even have a big snow storm. But still we have a few weeks in Albany before freezing becomes the norm most nights.
| Week | Date | Dawn | Sun- rise |
Sun- set |
Dusk | Day | Avg High | Avg Low | Record Hi | Record Low |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Oct 22 | 6:47 am | 7:16 am | 6:02 pm | 6:31 pm | 10:46 | 57 | 38 | 86 (1979) | 20 (1959) |
| 1 | Oct 29 | 6:56 am | 7:25 am | 5:52 pm | 6:21 pm | 10:27 | 55 | 36 | 77 (1946) | 19 (1969) |
| 2 | Nov 5 | 6:04 am | 6:33 am | 4:43 pm | 5:13 pm | 10:09 | 52 | 34 | 75 (1994) | 17 (1951) |
| 3 | Nov 12 | 6:12 am | 6:42 am | 4:35 pm | 5:05 pm | 9:53 | 49 | 33 | 68 (1909) | 15 (1976) |
| 4 | Nov 19 | 6:20 am | 6:51 am | 4:29 pm | 5:00 pm | 9:38 | 47 | 31 | 71 (1921) | 12 (1972) |
| 5 | Nov 26 | 6:28 am | 6:59 am | 4:25 pm | 4:56 pm | 9:25 | 44 | 29 | 67 (1979) | -11 (1938) |
| 6 | Dec 3 | 6:35 am | 7:07 am | 4:22 pm | 4:53 pm | 9:14 | 41 | 26 | 63 (2009) | -1 (1976) |
| 7 | Dec 10 | 6:42 am | 7:14 am | 4:21 pm | 4:53 pm | 9:07 | 38 | 23 | 64 (1966) | -4 (1902) |
| 8 | Dec 17 | 6:47 am | 7:19 am | 4:22 pm | 4:54 pm | 9:03 | 35 | 21 | 59 (1984) | -8 (1942) |
| 9 | Dec 24 | 6:51 am | 7:23 am | 4:26 pm | 4:58 pm | 9:03 | 33 | 18 | 72 (2015) | -15 (1989) |
| 10 | Dec 31 | 6:53 am | 7:25 am | 4:31 pm | 5:03 pm | 9:06 | 32 | 16 | 53 (1984) | -21 (1933) |
| 11 | Jan 7 | 6:53 am | 7:24 am | 4:37 pm | 5:09 pm | 9:12 | 31 | 15 | 56 (1915) | -12 (1878) |
| 12 | Jan 14 | 6:51 am | 7:22 am | 4:45 pm | 5:16 pm | 9:22 | 30 | 14 | 66 (1932) | -24 (1957) |
| 13 | Jan 21 | 6:48 am | 7:19 am | 4:53 pm | 5:24 pm | 9:34 | 30 | 14 | 61 (2006) | -18 (1994) |
| 14 | Jan 28 | 6:43 am | 7:13 am | 5:02 pm | 5:32 pm | 9:49 | 31 | 15 | 56 (1916) | -16 (2005) |
| 15 | Feb 4 | 6:36 am | 7:06 am | 5:11 pm | 5:41 pm | 10:05 | 32 | 15 | 61 (1991) | -13 (1978) |
| 16 | Feb 11 | 6:28 am | 6:57 am | 5:21 pm | 5:50 pm | 10:23 | 34 | 17 | 59 (1981) | -18 (1962) |
