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To: CottonBall
"I think I know why I never remember you are in MN - it just seems like such an inhospitable place in the winter that I can't believe you went there! How would you deal with snow if/when there isn't fuel for snow removal? (I'm asking because we have a Sierra cabin with the same issue. I figure winters will be very safe from marauding bands - but difficult to get out if we need a doctor or supplies)."

I was raised in the Sierras where the average annual snowfall was 300-500 inches (and more some seasons), so snow has never seemed a problem to me! It don't snow anywhere near that amount out here! But, it does get real cold! It's below zero as this is being written...

We have snowmobiles if the snow was a problem, to get into civilization... Let me tell ya CB, they are more of a hoot than our Harleys too! It's a long ride to "town", about seventeen miles, but what a thrill cutting through the hardwood forests to get there. You sure have to dress for it, even with modern day warming technology!

Fuel is no problem (yet). I keep a 750 gallon gravity fed fuel tank filled with farm gas (non ethanol! with stabilizing preservative runs me $2.75 per) for our tractors and other non-diesel using farm equipment.

That, with the diesel fuel tower tank, and three 500 gallon propane tanks, fuel is not a problemo... It will be when the shtf! But we always have firewood from the 5-6 sections of land we oversee for the tribe to keep our tootsies warm!

90 posted on 01/01/2013 9:43:02 PM PST by JDoutrider
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To: JDoutrider

I had to recalculate your inches snowfall to feet, which is what we measure it by. About 25 feet is our average, so we’d be snowed in without snowplows. We have snowmobiles - that’s the reason for having a cabin with such ridiculous snowfall ;) But without fuel, we’d be stuck.

Sounds like you’d have it better, with less snow. Although that cold would do be in - even with lots of wood available. Although our wood stove drives us out of the cabin sometimes, it works so well.


91 posted on 01/02/2013 7:27:38 AM PST by CottonBall
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