Everyone making milk sandwiches or whatever southerners do whenever it snows this weekend?
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@prettygood Whiskey and beer (I actually did buy ingredients to make a beef stew).
@Will2Power I'm just clowning on the "everyone buying milk and bread" thing that always happens. IDK WTF people are doing with all of it.
I got annoyed with my sister for freaking out about the storm in Alabama and not having any supplies. Like are you retarded? You live in an area with tornados and you've been there 2 years now. You should have a kit. I told her to go check the thrift store for propane camp stoves so she can cook if she needed to.... Among other things.
@madison @Will2Power I've had three power outages of ~36h in the last five years. I got a generator full of gas, 7 gallons more on stand by, propane space heater, wood for the fireplace, shelf-stable meals to feed three people for *weeks*, first aid, liquor, raw materials, TP, bottled water, so on and so forth. It takes exactly one (1) instance of being cold, alone, fucked-off, in the dark, to make you say "never again"
Yup! When our son was a newborn and we lived in town we all lost power on our island for 2 days. It was winter and cold. At the time we just had some backup batteries and Tyler lit a fire and we moved the mattress in the living room. But it was still dark and gloomy and I was bored out of my mind! We quickly started stocking up and when we moved we lost power often due to the wind. So solar was next.... Plus Tyler got a diesel boat generator off Craigslist and rigged it up to run off of waste motor oil. So we'd run that to boost the batteries. Was pretty neat actually. But after an hour the Internet would go out so that was lame because we were too rural and had zero cell reception at the house.
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@madison @Will2Power yeah I live in a brick house with a metal roof at the bottom of a very deep valley, I have to walk ½ mile down the road to get cell signal. And if our power is out, the ISP gear on the poles is out too, so yeah. Books and LED lights and so on.
I need to spend the money to get a whole house nat gas generator setup, I literally live in a coal field, the gas is *right there* on my own property.
I need to spend the money to get a whole house nat gas generator setup, I literally live in a coal field, the gas is *right there* on my own property.
That's pretty cool. Is your house in the shade at the bottom of the valley? Our old place was shaded most of the time so when we got snow it would melt down the property and you'd see where the shade was. Would be an interesting sight.
I had to call EMS for our neighbor who had a stroke but my phone wouldn't dial over Wi-Fi so I had to run to the end of the road and make the call
I had to call EMS for our neighbor who had a stroke but my phone wouldn't dial over Wi-Fi so I had to run to the end of the road and make the call
@madison @Will2Power the holler runs north-south and the house is oriented to match, so the south end with the sun room gets a lot of sun, at least between like, 11 and 3, this time of year. On the longest days, its like 9-5 sun on the south side.
And yeah needless to say I pay for a VOIP line for a terrestrial telephone. Sure it relies on my ISP still, but its been very reliable, if my power is up the internet is up, generally.
And yeah needless to say I pay for a VOIP line for a terrestrial telephone. Sure it relies on my ISP still, but its been very reliable, if my power is up the internet is up, generally.
That sounds lovely. We are doing the earthwork now to put in a concrete pad for a wrap around porch, it'll be really nice to have that space. Right now it's dirt everywhere.
We have starlink now, it's alright. I notice my memes are slower to upload.
We have starlink now, it's alright. I notice my memes are slower to upload.
@madison @Will2Power my internet is bitchin fast considering how remote I am. Still wish I had fiber so I could run my own little DIY data center from the compound, but hey.