"I'm electric," says a kite-bearing Duggins to Riverview residents as Gahan disappears into yonder bunker.

If you're not following Hon. Deaf Gahan on Twitter, you should be. It's both hilarious and deadly accurate.

Meanwhile, Dugout's making the rounds to "listen" to displaced residents of Riverview Towers.

Or, "we shall gather at the sycophants." May of 2019 draws ever closer: #FireGahan2019

Temporary electric fix being tested at Riverview Towers, by Aprile Rickert (Where Tom May Stores His Stuff)

Some residents could move back home Sunday if successful

New Albany Housing Authority interim director David Duggins updated the NAHA board of commissioners on the situation at a special meeting Friday afternoon.

Duggins said a temporary fix was being tested Friday on the first floor and six residential floors. If it holds, some of those residents can begin moving back in by Sunday. Duggins said they will make certain the fix is secure before notifying individuals who may begin moving.

Once that is in place, engineers will begin performing the same fix on the remaining floors and work to move residents back in stages.

"What we will not do is rush our residents back there," Duggins said.

Duggins said he and staff have been visiting the residents each day at hotels and said they are doing well; he thanked them for their patience.

Solar: "Germany’s little-guy suppliers are destabilizing big power companies."

An oldie (posted in March) but a goodie, one that came back to mind in the midst of an animated pub discussion somewhere near Plymouth. Sometimes one wonders whether a single Indiana bureaucrat knows as much about solar energy as a handful of normal Eurospeptical folks in a place like England.

Can You Have Too Much Solar Energy? Germany’s little-guy suppliers are destabilizing big power companies, by Andrew Curry (Slate)

Already, Germany’s power companies are closing power plants and scrapping plans for new ones. Germany had a national freak-out after the Fukushima disaster and decided to abolish nuclear power by 2023. Meanwhile, energy prices continue to sink, and solar installation continues to grow. By decentralizing power generation, the renewables boom could do to the power industry what the Internet did to the media: Put power in the hands of the little guy, and force power companies to rethink how they do business. As soon as the sun comes out, that is.