Monday, November 29, 2010
Cleaning out files at work
And came across these photos.
This is me doing a story on an elderly woman (holding the ladder for me) whose house was burned up by PG&E and then they refused to help her file a claim for more than 7 months, effectively making her homeless when the fire was THEIR FAULT!
Anyhoo, after my first story. PG&E settled, for a pittance, mostly because the woman, Barbara Ray, was so ungreedy she only asked for replacement value of whatever was absolutely unusable, even keeping her old fridge that had been scorched on the outside because, "Well, it still runs good."
So, she found a contractor, Jimmy Miller (standing next to her on the ground) who basically did everything for cost and got all his subs to lower their prices too.
I went out to do a folo story and when I wanted to interview Jimmy who was on the roof, he wouldn't come down, so I went up. Then, as you see in the photo, I had to scramble back down in my high heels and skirt. What I go through for a story! I tell you!
This next one was a story on wind energy. So we went out to find the wind, and we did!
This was from the summer, I think. Wilkie, in the plaid shirt, is famous for flipping off any camera that may be pointed in his direction. So me and Robin (the finger to the left) got the drop on him!
And this is a very sad photo taken in March 2009 when we had massive layoffs....after the layoffs that Christmas. Many of the people in this photo were no longer here after this day. Including the goof who's photoshopped in because he couldn't be bothered to make the photo shoot that day!
This is me doing a story on an elderly woman (holding the ladder for me) whose house was burned up by PG&E and then they refused to help her file a claim for more than 7 months, effectively making her homeless when the fire was THEIR FAULT!
Anyhoo, after my first story. PG&E settled, for a pittance, mostly because the woman, Barbara Ray, was so ungreedy she only asked for replacement value of whatever was absolutely unusable, even keeping her old fridge that had been scorched on the outside because, "Well, it still runs good."
So, she found a contractor, Jimmy Miller (standing next to her on the ground) who basically did everything for cost and got all his subs to lower their prices too.
I went out to do a folo story and when I wanted to interview Jimmy who was on the roof, he wouldn't come down, so I went up. Then, as you see in the photo, I had to scramble back down in my high heels and skirt. What I go through for a story! I tell you!
This next one was a story on wind energy. So we went out to find the wind, and we did!
This was from the summer, I think. Wilkie, in the plaid shirt, is famous for flipping off any camera that may be pointed in his direction. So me and Robin (the finger to the left) got the drop on him!
And this is a very sad photo taken in March 2009 when we had massive layoffs....after the layoffs that Christmas. Many of the people in this photo were no longer here after this day. Including the goof who's photoshopped in because he couldn't be bothered to make the photo shoot that day!
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