My preferred route back to the Peninsula is US-101, and it’s a preferred place to hang out in the Spring. After watching the winds and fires for a week I’m waiting for the media to turn their attention to the impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two Sonoma wineries were destroyed, half of the others had no damage, the other half only minor losses. Vines don’t usually burn easily, so it’s the man-made stuff that gets hit. It is harvest season, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s also harvest for cannabis in Sonoma. Given that the illegal:legal ratio of cannabis farms is about 5:1, we won’t likely hear much from them for quite a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the basic Econ 101 principles is that free markets can be depended upon for important innovations, and the new cannabis industry is a text-book example of that. One of those ideas is “fresh frozen” cannabis. The normal harvest routine for marijuana is pick it, hang it up to dry 2 weeks, cure it 2 weeks, trim and package for a week. About 6-8 weeks before it sells. When freezing, the pick is immediately put inside a freezer at -38F degrees. Then it goes directly to an extractor, for payment in days after picking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The unlicensed farmers wouldn’t do this, but the licensed growers only need to acquire the freezing equipment, but not a trivial thing at all. These are barn-sized freezers. And they eat up a lot of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Power which suddenly disappeared when PG&E did their thing. When fresh frozen thaws, it turns into mush and is simply organic waste. Well, it’s only the second year this trick has been tried at scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I realize the season isn’t over yet, but I’m optimistic there won’t be refugees to the extent of the 2017 fires. That means I’ll be able to find a parking place along the way.
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