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Obviously, not being able to get out on my boat I feel free to sit
here and rant so here goes.......
What is with all these people who think it is a disaster to not have
electricity for a few days. Sure, if you live in an apartment it may
be bad with no water or lighting but you can manage. If you have your
own home it is easy, even in summer heat.
Many people I know tell me all about how much fuel they have for their
generators and how much they can power with it and ask me about my
generator and I pause for a few minutes and say, "Well, I got about
a gallon of kerosene for the lamps". Life without AC wont kill ya.
Those clear things in the side of your house called windows OPEN (what
a concept). Sure it isnt comfy but your living in the semi-tropics,
deal with it and stop being wimpy. Before the storm you shoulda
filled containers with drinkin water and filled your tubs with water
to flush the toilets with. BTW, storms make lotsa rain that fills
containers set outside too, use that water. As far as washing
clothes, you'd be amazed how clean you can get stuff in a 5 gallon
bucket of water and some soap and then use a clothes line outside ya
idjits. For cooking, fire up the grill, cook a bunch of stuff and eat
it for a day or two. By the time you use up your frozen stuff you can
eat stuff from cans without cooking it.
We been there and done it so y'all can just stop whining.

My Grand other and us lived without electricity. I had no idea there was
such a thing as tv. We had a radio powered by a large battery. The
antenna was as long cotton wrapped wire that circled the ceiling.
We got up at dawn and had supper right before dark about the time to
start the kerosene lamps, in winter. In summer we didn't use the lampps
hardly at all. I didn't like drawing all the ater from the well or when
it was dry carrying two two gallon buckets about half mile each way from
a spring. I didn't much care for having to keep the fire going under the
the pot that was used for everything from washing, starching, soap
making, rendering or jelly making either. The women liked it even less.
Chicken(real chicken) that I had to wring their necks, does taste better
cookd on a wood stove in lard. We were poor I guess but didn't know it
as noone elsee had much either. They shot or raised most everything we
ate except flour and the like. Once a month or maybe twice a walk to
town barefootfor an orange crush and a moon pie in front of the Home
Store was a real treat. carrying fifty p0und sacks of flour or a five
gallon bucket of lard back wasn't much fun though.
Mom and Dad lived most of the time in the "city". I hated it and spent
as much time as I could back at Grand Ma's.