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As we begin February, many of us are asking: when will life return to normal? No one can ever know for sure when life will return to normal after a particular event, not least because what's normal keeps on changing, even in normal times. Has our faith in a return to normality collapsed? The rise in uncertainty has come in two waves, the first in late 2020 when we were confident about what would happen next. However, we may now increasingly be more unsure as to what the future might hold, and wave two may not have yet peaked. We will probably have to accept a new normal, whatever that will be. The pandemic exists in our heads as well as the physical world and is partly about us — how we individually feel. The return of normality therefore won't be marked by life returning to what it was before 2020, but by us feeling that things are normal again. At some point, the majority of us will become used to how things have changed, and we will begin to see our changed world as normal. For those of us who have lived through the pandemic, it will remain in our minds. But how we look back and remember the pandemic, and the times before March 2020, will keep changing. The virus will become endemic. That means the virus will never be eliminated entirely, but as more people get vaccinated and become exposed to it, infections will decrease. Maybe getting back to normal will result in a better normal as we learn from the past and what we have been through. On Thanksgiving Day 2021, Four Seasons experienced a power outage that was significant in many parts of our community. In December, with the help of Hemet City Council Member, Russ Brown, a meeting was held with Southern California Edison (SCE) representatives. The purpose was to understand why our power was affected and to ask for help in minimizing future disruptions. We learned the following: 1. Our community is on two separate grids/circuits. Each grid can provide power to the other grid as needed. 2. In future events, SCE can direct power to the affected grid. Unfortunately, an event such as a downed power line can delay the ability to direct power. This is why the outage at Thanksgiving lasted such a long time. 3. Although Four Seasons has "underground" lines, our community is at the end of the "above ground" power line circuit. In summary, we have SCE's attention. They will be making efforts to minimize future disruptions, and we will maintain a positive dialogue with them. By now, the updated/revised Rules and Regulations have been made available to residents for their review. We thank the Ad-hoc Committee, made up of residents and Board members, who worked hard on this document. One purpose of the Rules and Regulations is to ensure that all residents of our community will live in harmony. It is unfortunate that in our country today we have too many examples of an absence of civility. Civility is simply courtesy and politeness — when one does not agree with someone but manages to treat that person politely, greeting and behaving in a socially acceptable way. Let's keep Four Seasons an example of people living together respectfully. Enjoy and celebrate all that February has to offer: a shorter month, Valentine's Day, Presidents' Day (George Washington set an example all Presidents should follow), Groundhog Day, Superbowl Sunday, and for those of you paying attention: National Love Your Pet Day. Message from the Board of Directors 2 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | FEBRUARY 2022 | Sincerely, and on behalf of your Board of Directors, Greg Rockvam, Cliff Post, Tony Criscenti, Roxy Snider, Fred Kydd, and Barbra Balser Jim Crase President