Years ago. there was a very bad storm where I lived, which knocked out power to our zoo for three days. The other keepers and I worked on average for 18 hours a day, which was just as well, since we didn't have power at our homes, either, so it wasn't like those were great places to be either. It was a searing hot summer, we had almost no access to water, food was perishing left at right, and it was a toss-up of who was going to die first, the generators... or us.
Oakland Zoo is one of countless entities - nonprofits, businesses, and homes - that is being impacted by the PG&E power shut-off, an attempt to prevent wildfires from destroying the area in the upcoming days. From the article, it appears that they are doing their best to prepare for it, and I'm certainly glad that they got notice. I'm sure it is still going to be a scary moment when the lights (and heat lamps... and filters... and pumps... and anything else not plugged into a generator) goes off.
Best of luck in the coming days.
Keeper Myra Daly attaches extension cords from an external generator to heat lamps crucial for keeping reptiles warm in the Sonoran Desert exhibit at the Oakland Zoo in Oakland, California, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2019.
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