Posted on 02/09/2019 12:44:15 PM PST by dynachrome
I grew up in Seattle. Non Seattleites do not appreciate that Seattle is built on hills and cold weather is extremely hard to predict here. In the Midwest or Great Lakes, snow means snow. In the Puget Sound, snow means snow or ice and slush on hills and all the right places to make walking or driving risky. When I was a kid we would try to be like mailmen and get to school while our parents would go to work no matter what. Eventually we collectively got tired of fighting the weather and decided it wasn’t worth it.
But I'm 75 so Cremora works for me for my coffee.
I usually go to the store every day for exercise. I just buy a couple things at a time. Aldi and Dollar Tree are within a mile of me.....plus 20 other stores. Life is good....but winter s****.
It clearly says: “with a charger”. It took a long time. 24v at 3 amps. I could charge the array a lot quicker if I needed to, with multiple and bigger chargers and generators.
Sounds like Florida 10 hours before a hurricane’s gonna hit...
powdered
I saw “with a charger,” but I liked the mental image of you out there shining flashlights on your panels. Kind of like greenies putting windmills on their cars to generate “free” power.
Sound like you are prepared for the power to go out. Are you in Avista territory? We’ve got a house north of Coeur d’Alene and are away now hoping it doesn’t freeze up (no emergency generator).
One year they advised up to keep a bathtub full of water in case the incoming hurricane knocked out power. What I learned from this was that my bathtub drain wouldn’t seal and it all drained out.
[18 bottles of wine
Only stock up on the essentials.]
LOL
Lived in St Louis exurbia for a half-dozen years. They develop a serious case of stupid when they get an inch or two of snow/ice. The city where we lived didn't even have a snow plow but sent a truck up and down the suburban streets with two dudes in the back pitchin' cinders with shovels. It always melted in a day or two but the drivers were all goofy until it did.
I grew up in the Upper Midwest (WAAYYYY up north) and I remember one week in high school when it got down to -20 to -30F and stayed that way for a week. The power went out for a few days but there was enough water in the pressure tank for drinking/cooking and you went outside to fetch a bucket of snow and ice to melt on the wood stove to flush the toilet. There was plenty of fish and venison in the chest freezer (you only opened it once and be quick about it) to hold us over. Skillet cornbread on the wood stove and green beans and carrots you canned the previous summer.
People are so soft these days.
Read an old newspaper story about a blizzard where a private pilot air-dropped survival supplies to stranded hunters. No bottled water and energy bars in the 1940s, instead he just dropped the essentials: sandwiches, whiskey, cigarettes, and matches.
https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nd/williston/KISN/date/2019-2-8
Take a picture of that web page, once they figure out what it says, they might delete it.
We are in the Tri-Cities, normally milder than CDA and Spokane, not today.
The thought about silly snowflakes not understanding energy production/consumption also occurred to me.
Just as an aside, one time I did measure the full moon putting a tiny bit of energy into the panels. I forget exactly how much power, and certainly nothing useful, but it was there!
Wait until summer. They’ll have a run on fans at all the stores.
Yep!!!
[ ‘Combat shopping’: Mayhem at Seattle stores as shoppers clear shelves pre-snow storm ]
Job 38:22-23 King James Version (KJV)
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Not only that our hysterical snowflake liberal rag Seattle Times over hyped it and then our own moonbeam gov declares state of emergency over half a foot of snow. Now they’re predicting snowmageddon of three inches Tues/Wed
In a REAL emergency food and gas would be hard to get. A few days of bad weather and no electricity would wipe out grocery stores. These people don't know what a real emergency is. Yet.
It goes more than the stock of fresh milk and eggs. . . we have powdered milk and eggs.
Really, this isn’t Rocket Science. . .
Our daughter was in Chicago that day for a training program. They shut the entire city down including all businesses and it was nowhere near 43 below. What a bunch of pansies.
I used to live in Seattle. To be fair to the people there, the city’s snow removal plan is “Don’t worry. Tomorrow’s rain will melt it all>”
When it doesn’t, well, their two snow plows and three loads of sand get a bit taxed.
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