That's a timely 🐸🎖️. This is the kind of level-headed common sense info we need more of around here. If you felt like expanding this comment into a sort of "how to survive the next three months just in case" post (and let the mods know), I'd be happy to sticky it, fren.
Agree! Our electricity, phones and internet went out for 13 days because of the ice storm. ( creepy AF because all the limbs on the north side of every tree broke off and made a loud cracking/crashing sound that was constant-15 acres worth)
But the lesson was what to do if I loose all that. Much more prepared now.
Luckily we have a pool we used for all the animals in the neighborhood. Lots! We do have a generator now as well as batteries and an inverter.
Since our ice strom we have all new power equipment that doesn't go out very much anymore. I kinda miss the outages. We had two low end wind events that usually make our lights flicker a lot but now it doesn't do that anymore. :(
Only a few spotty outages according to the outage tracker despite 40-45mph winds where usually a lot of rural outages occur in the usual spots but not this year! I think Pacific Power took extra care as we saw them out in enforcing tree distancing this summer.
That's a timely 🐸🎖️. This is the kind of level-headed common sense info we need more of around here. If you felt like expanding this comment into a sort of "how to survive the next three months just in case" post (and let the mods know), I'd be happy to sticky it, fren.
Thanks!
Agree! Our electricity, phones and internet went out for 13 days because of the ice storm. ( creepy AF because all the limbs on the north side of every tree broke off and made a loud cracking/crashing sound that was constant-15 acres worth)
But the lesson was what to do if I loose all that. Much more prepared now. Luckily we have a pool we used for all the animals in the neighborhood. Lots! We do have a generator now as well as batteries and an inverter.
Since our ice strom we have all new power equipment that doesn't go out very much anymore. I kinda miss the outages. We had two low end wind events that usually make our lights flicker a lot but now it doesn't do that anymore. :(
Only a few spotty outages according to the outage tracker despite 40-45mph winds where usually a lot of rural outages occur in the usual spots but not this year! I think Pacific Power took extra care as we saw them out in enforcing tree distancing this summer.
Well put! We need more common sense posts then people will take this more seriously then always this 'Sky is falling' shit.