08-30-2011, 03:00 AM
Good to hear you're ok Rob, sounds like some real wicked stuff, but always better to 'plan for the worst, hope for the best, and settle for something in the middle!". Glad your power was only gone for a bit.
Out here in Deroche, when we loose power, we're last on the list... being in the boonies and all the 'city folk' gotta be looked after first, of course. We've lived here 11 yrs now, and the longest we have gone is 5 days without electricity. Most times it's a day or two. For the long outage, we packed block ice in the deep freeze, and blanketed it so we wouldn't lose all $ worth of frozen groceries in there, and since we are on a pump for water from our mountain creek, we had to tote all the water we needed in by hand !!! (luckily the creek is only about 200 feet from our house). And meals were cooked on either our woodstove, or on the propane camping stove, and somewhat intimate in the eves, since we dined by candlelight or lanterns !!! Off to bed early too as I recall !
Semi-Native... have you heard from your brother? :-?
take care guys, and hope the worst is over !
SandyBean [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
Out here in Deroche, when we loose power, we're last on the list... being in the boonies and all the 'city folk' gotta be looked after first, of course. We've lived here 11 yrs now, and the longest we have gone is 5 days without electricity. Most times it's a day or two. For the long outage, we packed block ice in the deep freeze, and blanketed it so we wouldn't lose all $ worth of frozen groceries in there, and since we are on a pump for water from our mountain creek, we had to tote all the water we needed in by hand !!! (luckily the creek is only about 200 feet from our house). And meals were cooked on either our woodstove, or on the propane camping stove, and somewhat intimate in the eves, since we dined by candlelight or lanterns !!! Off to bed early too as I recall !
Semi-Native... have you heard from your brother? :-?
take care guys, and hope the worst is over !
SandyBean [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]