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Before the Storm 7/20/2019
20 July 2019Home Prep
29 June 2019So I worry about basement flooding in a TEOTWAWKI scenario. If there’s no electricity to run a sump pump, you’re just going to have to wait for the water to naturally drain away.
But you wouldn’t have to worry about your furnace or your washer and drier if there’s no electricity to run them.
You would have to worry about food you have stored down there, but you can get that out when necessary. And there would be a lot of mold.
But still, you’d have a place to stay. And it may never flood again like it did in 2018. Our house has quite a few things going for it with regard to TEOTWAWKI.
A harsh day on the surface of the planet
29 March 2015The wind is from the northwest at 20 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts to 40. The temperature is well below zero Fahrenheit. It may be snowing or not, but if it’s not there’s a strong ground blizzard. In other words, harsh conditions by almost anyone’s standards.
And those conditions excite me in a way that nothing else does. It’s so harsh that I don’t even feel as if I’m on Earth any more. I feel as if it’s a harsh day on the surface of some planet that’s entirely indifferent to my existence, that is not nurturing, that may not even be habitable by humans. And yet there I am, out in it, challenging it to kill me.
And it could kill me. Skipping over all the science-fiction fantasies going on in my head, a fairly simple mistake could result in severe injury or even death. But that’s part of why it’s exciting.
Another part is that usually when I’m outside in those conditions, I’m moving — snowshoeing, skiing, walking, running, biking — and both my mind and body are fully engaged in staying upright, moving forward, and calculating direction and location. It’s an intensity of mental and physical effort that completely involves all that I am, and crowds everything else out of my mind. On the best days, I approach a meditative state, focused entirely on the now.
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Rain
30 June 2012Not much to say except we need it badly. Rain barrels are almost empty, so watering with well water. Being a prepper, that makes me think: "What would we be doing if there weren’t any electricity?"
The answer, of course, is that we’d be getting water from the river. That would be very hard work, but if it’s a difference between doing that and starving next winter, I think we’d get it done.
Yesterday, two different sets of storms passed just to our south. We got a very few drops from the second set. Nature can be such a tease.
I’m collecting water in a bucket in the shower again, getting a gallon or two from each shower. Not much, but it’s otherwise completely wasted.
According to the Forecast, Winter’s Here
4 December 2011Looks like we’ll have our first days of the season with the high temp below freezing this week.
M and I got half of the garage cleaned out so we could get one of our cars in there. That’s a sure sign that winter weather is here.
I put a ring of straw bales around the kale and collards this afternoon, then draped a sheet of clear plastic over the whole thing. I weighed it down with some big, heavy logs on the west side, and more logs on the other sides. I think it’s almost impossible to fight off that wind when it’s whipping out of the west northwest, but we’ll do our best. I hope to get a few more weeks out of it.
I cut quite a bit of kale, cooked some of it, and put the rest in a bag in the fridge. I don’t pick or cook ahead in the summer, but seems like the right way to deal with it this time of year.
Also, the compost was at 137°F this afternoon.
Ending and Beginning 