So this is where it comes from...

If you haven't seen Emmy's photos, they're below this posting, so don't miss them....

I thought this is hilarious... We've all seen Dad get up in arms about a thing or two and send a letter to the editor of the local newspapers and Jessie follow suit with her American Apparel outcry...

I found this letter and just thought, "okay, it makes a little more sense now..."

Check it out... Grandpa wrote this 12 years ago:

"December 14, 1995
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

After several days with no electrical power because of the nearly unprecedented rain and wind storm, we finally have the electrical power restored here in the East hills of Los Gatos. No more generator noise, at a cost of 30 dollars per day, no more candles and flashlights, no more Coleman stove cooking (until we go camping next summer), and we are now once again warm. We have had numerous outages before, and we would be naive to expect that this would be the last. My wife just called the PG&E to say thanks for the great effort of all concerned, and the shocked representative thanked her in return and said 'We rarely get any thanks at all.'

As an affluent society based on world living standards, we have become so accustomed to having every convenience that we take for granted the almost miraculous infrastructure we are so privileged to enjoy. Some even consider it an inalienable right to have every comfort readily available 24 hours of every day, when in many parts of the world such electrical power sources are at best, meager or non existent.

It is both humorous and pitiful to hear the braying of political hacks, be they mayors or members of the legislature, as they use a wide spread electrical outage as an excuse to gain public attention so they can prance and express such righteous indignation at the suffering they and their constituencies are experiencing. No less annoying is the cackly and prattle of the consumer activists who consider the general public so dimwitted and inept that they need governmental regulation of every product and service provider. They and the political hacks use such an outage to castigate the PG&E and to enflame our communities against the people who comprise the management and the rank and file of the utility company. This makes it easy for the TV field crews to find and film those who are angry and anxious to blame someone for their so-called suffering.

I have lived in the Santa Clara Valley since before WWII, and have experienced the awesome population growth in this valley. I have continued to be amazed at the ability of the PG&E to keep ahead of the gas and electrical demands of the housing and commercial developments, in spite of the never-ending battles with the consumer activists and the environmentalists with "the world is flat" mentalities. These doomsday activists successfully destroyed this valley's opportunity to become the world leader of safe and efficient nuclear-generated electrical power, with the instigation and propogation of totally impractical structural demands and over regulation by governmental agencies. Yet in spite of these activists' constant nipping at its heels, PG&E has been able to successfully and efficiently meet all of the increasing demands.

When there are outages, even during the worst of storms in the middle of the night, the field crews work under these extremely hazardous and difficult circumstances, often on hillsides in the poison oak, it the mud, often where traffic is a hazard, and yet in spite of these difficulties, we always get our power restored. To expect that the PG&E or the telephone company should maintain such an excess of employees so that on those extremely rare occasions such as our recent storm they can replace and erect all of the fallen power poles, restring all of the broken power lines, and remove all of the fallen trees in a matter of a few hours is the height of stupidity or naivete. I am grateful that we have non-governmental private utility companies which to efficiently provide gas, electrical power, and telephone services and that when the storms do come, that they do such an excellent job, under extremely hazardous conditions, to restore these precious services.

-Wesley K Walton"