. >> reporter: lily bennett was busy today working at the big bottom market in guerneville where a large generator kept them up and running even as the rest of this two stoplight town went figuratively dark. >> we've had floods, everything thrown at us. i don't know whatever the lord wants to throw at us, but he expects us to handle it. >> reporter: in oh, so many ways. adcardinal newman high school in santa rosa students have been awake for months remote learning. out of 600 students only 24 could not connect this day. >> e-mailed the night before when they anticipate it's going to be missing and then you can give them their homework in the e-mail. and/or what they do they hooked up in terms of a pod with their classmates. so they'll go to their friend's house and then they'll be using their friends internet. >> reporter: psps, no big deal especially at a school where half the campus burned during the tubbs fire of 2020. in short people around here are getting used to these events. they don't like them, but the alternative worse. >> it could be this whole place is on fire, so i'm okay w