I just got more firewood thanks to the ice storms in E TX this week. I have tree branches down from front to back. I'll have to move all that to the backyard to be cut once the ice stops falling (hopefully this weekend). The only good thing is one of the 60' trees was going to be cut down this spring (for a ton of money). Now nearly all of the branches are on the ground, so I can chop it down myself without worrying about it hitting anything like my garage or fence. It might have 2 or 3 branches left and I'm sure they will fall before the ice is done.
I'm also getting REALLY tired of our power going out. It's freaking 2023 and power lines are still above ground and vulnerable to heavy ice or trees that have grown around them. Yesterday the power flashed on/off about a dozen times in a row, back-to-back, and destroyed my freezer and my NAS that I run my house off of. Assuming the drives and the RAM upgrades in the NAS are dead I'm looking at about an $8k loss and probably a good month before my insurance claim goes through and I'm completely back up and running. I have backups but they are on the slow external WD Book drives and will take forever to load into the roughly 35TB of data I had loaded.
Solar and Tesla Powerwalls are in the cards for spring. My 1500va UPSs just don't cut it.
I have a stack of fire bricks, as well as regular bricks and concrete blocks. I also have a number of wire grates to cook on.
If you let privet hedge grow, you can cut branches, dry them, and use them in rocket stoves like miniature stove wood. I have already started cutting and drying some. Just use a lopper to cut the branches off and cut them to length. Easy.
I just hope that the electricity is still on, because I have a shitload of popcorn to pop.
I have wood and propane. Everyone should have backups to their backups now.
I just got more firewood thanks to the ice storms in E TX this week. I have tree branches down from front to back. I'll have to move all that to the backyard to be cut once the ice stops falling (hopefully this weekend). The only good thing is one of the 60' trees was going to be cut down this spring (for a ton of money). Now nearly all of the branches are on the ground, so I can chop it down myself without worrying about it hitting anything like my garage or fence. It might have 2 or 3 branches left and I'm sure they will fall before the ice is done.
I'm also getting REALLY tired of our power going out. It's freaking 2023 and power lines are still above ground and vulnerable to heavy ice or trees that have grown around them. Yesterday the power flashed on/off about a dozen times in a row, back-to-back, and destroyed my freezer and my NAS that I run my house off of. Assuming the drives and the RAM upgrades in the NAS are dead I'm looking at about an $8k loss and probably a good month before my insurance claim goes through and I'm completely back up and running. I have backups but they are on the slow external WD Book drives and will take forever to load into the roughly 35TB of data I had loaded.
Solar and Tesla Powerwalls are in the cards for spring. My 1500va UPSs just don't cut it.
I have a stack of fire bricks, as well as regular bricks and concrete blocks. I also have a number of wire grates to cook on.
If you let privet hedge grow, you can cut branches, dry them, and use them in rocket stoves like miniature stove wood. I have already started cutting and drying some. Just use a lopper to cut the branches off and cut them to length. Easy.
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Fire + cast iron + tin foil + butter = campfire jiffy pop.
We'll be just fine fren!
I will updoot you...I just don't want to disturb the 17 updoots already...is it wrong to be superstitious?