What is "Of course we're covered for lighting. Last time I counted I had 63 runners and I've gotten a few more since then plus a few more I could press into service in an hour or two." a runner, and how does it relate to light?
We're all electric in the big house, but have a propane heater as a back-up in the guest house. The grill is connected to the 500 gallon propane tank, and that's about all we use it for now. Then there is the wood fired oven, but it's also outside - no heat in the house from that. Back when we lived in town, the power went out for a day and a half or so. I used the inverter in the MB to power the wife's coffee grinder, boiled water on the grill for her coffee and my tea - life was OK then. On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Kyle mentioned self sufficiency and it made me think of something that > happened yesterday. > T'was just before lunch time when the power went out. Drat, I knew I > should have eaten earlier. > Fortunately the woodstove was already hot so I took a pan, 2 slices of > bread and some leftover chicken down there and warmed everything up on the > stove. A little spinach made it a nice sandwich.After lunch I read for > close to an hour figuring the power would come on soon. When it didn't I > went out to the garage and grabbed the battery I'd recently replaced from > the Dodge pickup. Its group 47 so pretty good size. I put my 400w Coleman > (HA!) power inverter on it, plugged in the cable modem and wifi router and > was back in business doing what I was doing before the power went out. > I posted pics on Facebook and got a reply to the lunch cooking of "its > good you've got this as a backup." Which reminded me that we've got > multiple layers of backup, if the woodstove weren't lit I could have fired > a Coleman stove, I've got... several...I'm not sure how much Coleman fuel > I've got, 3 or 4 gallons I think which should last a long time, when we had > the ice storm in '08 I only had 3/4 gallon and that carried us 2 days > including boiling water to take baths.I've also got 2 gallons of JetA which > I use for kerosene (its cheaper) and a couple kerosene stoves so thats > backup #3. > Of course we're covered for lighting. Last time I counted I had 63 runners > and I've gotten a few more since then plus a few more I could press into > service in an hour or two. > Theres about 4 cords of wood out back plus I could salvage brush from the > conservation land next door.We've got probably 2 weeks of food, best if we > had cold temps to help keep the freezer frozen... Worst case the airgun > would harvest the fat squirrels in the backyard. > Anyway I'm not sure what my point is but I like knowing we're prepared. > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
