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Life without electricity
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. |
Life without electricity
wrote in message ... 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. I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. |
Life without electricity
Don White wrote:
I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html -- Regards, Dave Brown Brown's Marina Ltd http://brownsmarina.com/ |
Life without electricity
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Life without electricity
Dave Brown wrote:
Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html That same storm also hit northern New York... http://www.northcountrypublicradio.o.../icestorm.html TJ |
Life without electricity
On Sep 14, 10:11*am, wrote:
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 drinking 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. Power outages here are rare, but do happen 4 years ago on Memorial day weekend a storm came though that just about took out most of the trees in my town. power was out for 3 days. I have an Onan 12K gen on a 4 cyl diesel Perkins. It doesn't get used hardly at all, but it took care of our needs as well as my next door neighbor for 4 days. 'Tis best to have and not need, than to need and not have. |
Life without electricity
On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing
wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. This may be an improvement. |
Life without electricity
On Sep 15, 9:54*am, wrote:
On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? *You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. *I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. *This may be an improvement.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Uh, she was almost two months premature and had just been released from the hospital with special needs that required power.. And yes, babies do go camping, my oldest was camping at 6 weeks old, but that birth had no complications. For the record, she came through it fine, here is what she looks like now;) http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...158&fullsize=1 At the Wormfarm, Masters of Mini's racing yesterday... |
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On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. This may be an improvement. I realize you are a conservative republican and therefore don't give a damn about anyone other than yourself, but... ....there are people who will die without access to electricity. I won't list all the reasons why, but there are many people who fall into the category. Not that you would give a schitt about these folks. |
Life without electricity
On Sep 15, 10:08*am, wrote:
On Sep 15, 9:54*am, wrote: On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? *You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. *I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. *This may be an improvement.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Uh, she was almost two months premature and had just been released from the hospital with special needs that required power.. And yes, babies do go camping, my oldest was camping at 6 weeks old, but that birth had no complications. For the record, she came through it fine, here is what she looks like now;)http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...158&fullsize=1 At the Wormfarm, Masters of Mini's racing yesterday...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Looking a tad on the soupy side! |
Life without electricity
On Sep 15, 11:51 am, wrote:
On Sep 15, 10:08 am, wrote: On Sep 15, 9:54 am, wrote: On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. This may be an improvement.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Uh, she was almost two months premature and had just been released from the hospital with special needs that required power.. And yes, babies do go camping, my oldest was camping at 6 weeks old, but that birth had no complications. For the record, she came through it fine, here is what she looks like now;)http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...158&fullsize=1 At the Wormfarm, Masters of Mini's racing yesterday...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Looking a tad on the soupy side! I admit there are people who really need electricity but most of us would survive without it for a week. I am simply tired of whining by able bodied people. Premature infants are an exception but most infants do very well camping Yes, I lived in Wyoming and worked outside through winters. |
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Life without electricity
On Sep 15, 11:51*am, wrote:
On Sep 15, 10:08*am, wrote: On Sep 15, 9:54*am, wrote: On Sep 15, 3:17 am, Rowdy Mouse Racing wrote: Dave Brown wrote: Don White wrote: I went without electricity for 6 days & nights back at the end of Sept 2003 thanks to Hurricane Juan. Those cold showers and meals cooked on the barbecue and coleman stove got tiresome...... not to mention sitting around at night (1900 hrs on) with just lanterns & candles. And then there was that Ice Storm in eastern Canada back in 1998.... http://brownsmarina.com/ice-story.html Yeah, a bunch of years ago we had a storm that took out our power in the winter.. We had a brandy new baby in the house, no choice but to get a generator. It's not a big one, but it will run the water stove, tv and fridge for a while, then we would switch over to the furnace for a while and cycle that all day. Babies did not exist before generators? *You dont take the baby camping? Drudge has a headline "HELL in HOUSTON", no power or water. *I used to live in Houston and it was hell WITH power and water. *This may be an improvement.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Uh, she was almost two months premature and had just been released from the hospital with special needs that required power.. And yes, babies do go camping, my oldest was camping at 6 weeks old, but that birth had no complications. For the record, she came through it fine, here is what she looks like now;)http://trip-reports.com/coppermine/d...158&fullsize=1 At the Wormfarm, Masters of Mini's racing yesterday...- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Looking a tad on the soupy side!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - That's quite an understatement.. It was crazy, everybody looked like that after the first moto;) |
Life without electricity
Have to agree with both sides here.
First. to those who wine about not having electricty for several days, its not a god given right. There are many things you can do to ease the pain. Have some supplies on hand for just an emergency. If you cant live without it, by all means, go buy a generator. Dont wait till the storm hits to head to the store and then complain that the store has run out. Be a good scout, be prepared! For anyone who has to have electricty for them selves or a loved one to live, If you dont have a backup of some kind, its your own fault! Dont bitch and wine at me, others, the gov. that you dont have elec.or that it is a hardship, if you didnt have enough forthought to be prepared for the unlikely(read likely) event of a major storm, then sorry about your luck! Its where people have to have some self accountability and not depend or blame others. For the most part, you dont need elec. to live, it just makes life easier. You can buy a small inexpensive generator that will take care of most things. A 2500 watt unit will heat your water tank(usually), Then pump the water for a shower. Then run a hot plate, slow cooker, small microwave etc to fix a hot meal. You dont need to have everything in a house on at once! And to bring out the coleman stove to heat water for a bath etc. is kinda lame when you can spend a couple bucks and buy a cheap gen set. But, you can get by. I agree, a hot shower, hot meal and a little tv in the evening is nice. So I bought a generator. It comes in handy. Still laugh when I hear the neighbors complain that they couldnt take a shower for 2 or 3 days. Second In the heart of a big city, life is different. Apartment buildings with little or no natrual ventilation can be a big problem. With no running water for an extended time can cause big problems, you dont have the spring down the road like ya do in the country. many places dont have much place to store water for an extended time, just not big enough. A major power and water outage in a big city can and does kill some people. Many people in the big cities have never had any experience with country living and just dont have a clue. But its not an exucuse for not trying to be prepared. But I guess you will always have the stupid people factor to deal with too! Done with my rant. wrote in message ... wrote: 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. |
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