Okay! It can stop anytime now!

Njdelaney said:
Hope you're stocked up for firewood and food my friend. So the next question is how long until this??:
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I have six cords of black ash firewood that has been stored indoors for more than five years now. My trouble is I have nothing to burn it in. 100% electric heat. As long as I can get the electrons to jiggle back and forth, I'm good.
I only keep the ash firewood because I like the smell when I enter the building. Gives me a good warm fuzzy feeling.
 
very cool, we don't have many flowering trees like that. We do have catalpa, which a big and get great flowers. I'll try and get some photos when they get going. Still kind of winter here.
 
Every home needs a woodstove. It's a primal thing when you sit beside that fire. Even if it's just for emergencies and hardly ever gets used. I've heated my house for the last 9 years with a woodstove, with a propane furnace backup that turns on overnight when it gets down to 65. We get some good power outages here and I can't imagine being without the stove....
 
We went 21 hrs without power in February and it was a grand adventure for us and the kids. I had scrambled eggs and coffee going on the woodstove, we played board games, read books, hung out together, played in the snow. The wife made a casserole on the woodstove for supper. Power was on in town but not at our place. It was fun. Had oil lamps and candles going almost all day. Simpler times...
 
I have electric storage heat for the house and studio. I can go about 24 hours before things start to cool off in the dead of winter. Currently have a half dozen oil lamps for said times. We break out the Coleman camp stove to cook on. After 24 hours I break out the generator and fire it up.
I do have a wood stove sitting under the stairs that lead to the second floor. Brand new but never installed. One of these days.... Been there for about ten years now, but every time I look up at my ceiling that is 26 feet high, the urge to get it done dwindles.
 
Shadowscape said:
Can you imagine if the internet seriously crashed. Couldn't even buy gasoline these days. We have all our eggs in one basket. Not good.
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Yeah, internet is critical infrastructure. It really is a single point of failure. Absolutely everything is dialed into the matrix at some point.

Used to say that we need cash on hand in case the power was out, you could still go down to the store and get essentials. Now the stores just close when power is out, they can't process payments or update inventory systems. Internet outages are just as bad if not worse in some ways.

George Carlin had a great bit about what would happen to society if the grid went down on a large scale for long enough...
 
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