Posted on 11/19/2008 1:26:03 PM PST by CHR
Edited on 11/30/2008 5:15:14 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
During the cold war, JFK claimed to have gone to the moon. He got congress to spend billions on his moon landing and pretended america landed there, convincing congress to give him billions, the fakeness of the landing is well documented.
It seems to me that this liberal moneybags, that he took these billions for personal use, or maybe gave them to the USSR (we all know he was soft on communism)
Perhaps his death was similarly staged in order to keep his billions or keep congress of his case.
I wonder if under an obama administration we will see more moon landings.
We buy some yellow stuff in a spray bottle at Wal-mart to de-ice the car windows.
I’ve been having some trouble with it for some treason, as well.
It’s like dog poop, in the park.
Mine’s working okay today.
When I lived in Fort Worth It took me longer to get the car ready to drive that to drive it to work.
Good.
If you receive an actual email from me with out warning, don’t open it.
That goes for all of you.
Thanks for the warning.
You are welcome.
I’m working on it.
Except in our case we bought a generator first, because we had no lawn (the woods came right up to our front door, in fact, you could lean off our porch and climb a good sized tree.)
That's also why I can't fit my car in the garage (too much junk)!
Of course, now my ride won't fit in the garage anyway. We just played Musical Cars because my daughter's old Volvo wagon blew up en route home from school during Fall break. I priced small SUVs and wagons, but the gas price spike meant that they were all full retail and were even expensive used, with plenty of miles on them.
So I went out and bought a Ford F-150 for next to nothing, and handed my old Explorer on to her. Which actually works out well, it's taller than her old wagon but holds about the same amount of stuff, and I have a truck for dog training events. The gas prices caused a lot of folks to panic and trade in their trucks . . . seriously, I was looking at 5 different trucks with about 50K on them and pitting all the dealers against one another, so the price just kept dropping.
And now I have no reason to clean out the garage, because an F-150 won't fit in the door!
hi all! power out some hours now. woodstoves have is warm but i am off for now
I think my connection is still spotty, but I’ll give a report anyway.
The last time we had a power outage, we couldn’t even find our flashlights.
Try to have a plan, and stage your needed materials in places you can find them. Start with the flashlight. At the very least, keep a flashlight somewhere in your bedroom.
Maybe another in the kitchen. One almost never uses up a flashlight battery in the flashlight. Usually they go bad waiting to be used.
That’s another thing, a lot of battery operated stuff you may have should probably have the batteries taken out before they corrode and damage it. Just a suggestion.
How well you can prepare for an emergency depends on your resources, but some things are affordable. Like a plan.
This may sound strange to the point of being weird but I have three working flash lights in my house.
You know there are sereral weird threads at a time this time of night.
You can call it the "Hammer Law". You need three hammers ... well ... I do, anyway.
We put the purple car in the garage, and the van and the truck (both too long for the garage) in the driveway.
I have windup flash lights that use LEDs, and have a little radio in them too. Made by Duracell, I got them at Costco last year...$16 for two, I think.
One hangs in the kitchen, one in the bedroom, and no batteries to worry about.
When my house was without electricity for a couple of months, I used a number of work-arounds.
The weather was cool enough, on a shaded porch, for some items I would normally refrigerate, but warm enough not to freeze, so I collected rainwater.
I had purchased two large plastic garbage cans, which I placed in my unusable bathtub. I kept them filled with the collected rainwater, and when I needed to flush the toilet, a two gallon pailful of rainwater poured directly in the toilet worked fine.
For the kitchen water, I put a pressure tank on the back of my pickup and drove down to my cousin’s house. I connected to his outside faucet with a garden hose, and then brought the tank back to my house and connected it to my outside faucet. That gave me pressurized water for cooking and hand-washing, but I had to conserve water.
For lights, I used 12V bulbs available from trailer supply houses that fit in standard bases. Since I was rewiring the house, I dedicated a couple of circuits to 12V operation, and used a spare battery to power them. I could use my regular light switches, and I always turned off the lights when not needed.
Whenever I traveled in the pickup, I took that battery with me to recharge it with a cheap set of jumper cables.
Nowadays, I would do things differently. Among the more practical investments I might make would be a device that lets me get water out of my deep-well without power. It’s called a galvanized bored-well bucket.
Basically, it’s a skinny bucket that you can lower down the well on a rope, and pull up a bucket of water. It works best with a pulley overhead.
http://www9.mailordercentral.com/cumberlandgeneral/prodinfo.asp?number=005117
I’d also arrange to use an inverter and compact fluorescent lights for lighting and AC power for small appliances.
My heat would still be the same, either fireplace or wood-stove, or perhaps a kerosene heater. My preference would be a pellet stove.
Even with these amenities, it’s a bit primitive, but it’s satisfying to know that survival can be relatively comfortable.
You'd have to power the hopper and the fan. Wood stoves are better. I have a friend with a pellet stove, and they can't get pellets this year.
Why did you have no power for a couple of months?
We had had an electrical fire. It took out several rooms, and the old electrical panel.
I made these accommodations so I could stay in the house and do the repairs. I had to repair the plumbing and electrical systems, re-insulate, and refinish the rooms that were damaged.
My brother once said I’m the only man in our county who built the house he was born in.
LOL! Not many can say that.
Are you getting snow?
**”You’d have to power the hopper and the fan. Wood stoves are better. I have a friend with a pellet stove, and they can’t get pellets this year.”**
Interesting developments in the production of pellets in Canada.
Here’s a discussion about them.
http://forum.iburncorn.com/viewtopic.php?t=4582&sid=0642b58d5512ac604155844c65d83f35
Switchgrass pellets ...
http://www.reap-canada.com/bio_and_climate_3_2.htm
Pellet fuels ...
http://www.pelletsales.com/?gclid=CMWUsPif0pcCFSUqHgodKRniDg
As to the powering of the hopper, remember that I suggested using a small inverter on a 12V system.
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