flowerbug
Garden Master
we filled up a few buckets for water to flush the toilets and i had drinking water and more water for flushing in storage if needed.
we'd just started brushing our teeth and the power went out. it was fairly warm out (around freezing) so i didn't light the propane fireplace thinking that perhaps in a few hours the power would be back on again.
woke up to a slightly chilly house and got the propane fireplace going and that held the temperature steady for the rest of the day until the power did come back on (almost 24hrs later).
a lot of of people got knocked out besides us, a friend had his place get down to 37F. that would have been tough, but since he had to be at work the next morning he could not come up this way and visit his sister at her place which did have power.
so, we camped, told stories, warmed things up in the fake fireplace, i got out the guitar and went to restring it (a string had broken while it was stored - wondered what that strange sound was but never figured it out until that day) and then broke a new string in the process so that was a failure, but i tried.
snow was enough to shovel and it was wet and heavy underneath. which is why it took down so many trees and wires. i took it in stages and didn't finish all of it until this afternoon when the end of the driveway got cleared at last. i hate having it all cleared and then the snowplows come along and fill it all in again so i leave that as much as i can. unless it is going to get really cold and freeze it all solid. breaking it up with a heavy shovel will work - i have an old cracked one just for that reason... it's a good use for an already broken shovel. i have two other broken snow shovels too. only one left that does what it is supposed to do. the others i use for heavy pushing to move the snow to where it should go. just pushing. not too much lifting...
then the next evening the power went out again and so i fired up the fake fireplace again, but at least the power came on a few hours later so we didn't get very cold.
wind chills were pretty brr! internet was out until 5pm today.
we'd just started brushing our teeth and the power went out. it was fairly warm out (around freezing) so i didn't light the propane fireplace thinking that perhaps in a few hours the power would be back on again.
woke up to a slightly chilly house and got the propane fireplace going and that held the temperature steady for the rest of the day until the power did come back on (almost 24hrs later).
a lot of of people got knocked out besides us, a friend had his place get down to 37F. that would have been tough, but since he had to be at work the next morning he could not come up this way and visit his sister at her place which did have power.
so, we camped, told stories, warmed things up in the fake fireplace, i got out the guitar and went to restring it (a string had broken while it was stored - wondered what that strange sound was but never figured it out until that day) and then broke a new string in the process so that was a failure, but i tried.
snow was enough to shovel and it was wet and heavy underneath. which is why it took down so many trees and wires. i took it in stages and didn't finish all of it until this afternoon when the end of the driveway got cleared at last. i hate having it all cleared and then the snowplows come along and fill it all in again so i leave that as much as i can. unless it is going to get really cold and freeze it all solid. breaking it up with a heavy shovel will work - i have an old cracked one just for that reason... it's a good use for an already broken shovel. i have two other broken snow shovels too. only one left that does what it is supposed to do. the others i use for heavy pushing to move the snow to where it should go. just pushing. not too much lifting...
then the next evening the power went out again and so i fired up the fake fireplace again, but at least the power came on a few hours later so we didn't get very cold.
wind chills were pretty brr! internet was out until 5pm today.