Posted on 10/26/2019 4:21:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Why not just plug them into the car and charge off the car batteries. You could probably get 100s of charges before draining the car’s battery.
If you want to run you car for hours to charge the cell phone. Gas is scarce as well after a hurricane. And you can’t run it in your garage if you don’t want to poison your family. The solar charger makes sense and can be used boating, camping. at the beach or on other outings as well
When PG&E turns my power off, my cell service goes off as well. When my power goes off in about an hour, I have no way to get emergency information. No house phone, and no cell phone. If my husband should happen to have a heart attack or something, then I would have to drive to the fire department to tell them that I need help.
Would you settle for Nevada?
Damn, good luck there!
You guys may wind up needing ham radios or something similar to survive there.
The ongoing pissing party between the Cali cartel government and the idiotic power utility ARE killing their own citizens.
I’m headed
Your Way!
“Every” garage door opener comes with a manual release on the inside, I believe.
Part of an emergency plan had better become finding it and knowing how to use it if CA is going to cut power willy-nilly
No power = “No Service” (cellular) for my elderly Mom during the last shut-off. Cell site has no power back-up. Fortunately she kept her ridiculously priced AT&T POTS service...that dial tone can last for days with the batteries/gen. at the CO. Doing the 3 hour drive up there tomorrow...she is on well water and her fridge/freezer can only do about 24 hours w/o power.
Keep empty spaces in the freezer full of frozen water containers. The refrigerator will act like an ice box (did).
Yep, she has some frozen water bottles stuffed in there. (And some extra buckets of water set aside for toilet flushing, etc.) Pretty soon CA residents will be survival w/o power experts...just like Venezuela! ;-)
Couldn’t they just keep the trees trimmed back away from the power lines...like they used to do? /rhetorical and sarcastic question.
People without GMRS licenses can listen to your nets but not transmit, with cheapo frs/GMRS handhelds from any sporting goods store right? I’m hazy on the detail but recall that a few channels are shared and a few are GMRS licensees only. Anyway seems like a good way to get info out even to Non-licensees
Here is the Sonoma County Incident Evactuation Map address:
Why, yes.
Here is a link to a very interesting photo of the heat signature of the Kinkaid Fire.
https://i0.wp.com/wildfiretoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/KincadeFire_342amPDT_10-24.jpg?ssl=1
Pull the opener release and raise the door the old fashioned way.
I bought a USB charger for a few bucks and put it in my Willys jeep.
Understand...I guess it was silly of me to think that cell service would be prioritized. I wonder where else that’s the case.
As to refrigerators, back in my survivalist days, I do remember learning about propane “absorption” chest freezers that can go about 2 weeks on a single 15 lb. tank of propane. Not very popular in the United States, due to our highly reliable electrical power, LOL. But maybe they’ll start getting imported now.
Related to that, I have an chest freezer that I recently bought. One of the things I noticed was the energy demand for it is very law, as its EPA sticker said something $25/year to operate...which comes out to 600 Watt-hours per day, which you can get out of a single standard sized solar panel (which is about 220 Watts, at full sunlight). You’d also need a battery and inverter, so it may be too much for your mom (it’s definitely too much for my parents), but it could be an option if they have help around.
For refrigerators, maybe consider one of the small, portable thermoelectric units. They actually use as much energy as the big chest freezers, so you’d need to double the capability. There may be better refrigerator-only options, but I haven’t looked much lately, but it sounds like it’s time, since the drive to Third World status by the Left doesn’t stop at California’s borders.
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