You have been generous long enough! Get back in the competition! It's not like the others need it more than you do!
RE: Boulder Sunday
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yes Ma'am that's a good point. Okay I probably will. How's the weather there or should I ask?
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The blizzard that they were predicting for us went South and hit Northern Illinois way harder than it did us. I just looked outside and I see a few snowflakes out there but certainly not the nine inches they were predicting. They really blew that one! They had declared a snow emergency and a blizzard warning. The wind is really blowing, so I guess it could still blow in some snow, but it didn't begin to snow at 6 a.m. this morning like they said it was going to.
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yay for the forecast not being accurate! unless you wanted the snow..lol. Does the electric ever go out there?
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, we used to lose electricity frequently because the lines ran through the woods and every time a branch blew down, there went our electric. But they buried our power lines a couple years ago and I don't think we have lost power since that occurred. I do have a gas stove and a gas fireplace, so I can still cook on the stove top and my living room stays warm even if I do lose Electric. My biggest problem is water because I have a well and a pump and the pump will not work without electric. I have two Big 5 gallon containers in the laundry room that have water in them that I can access if that happens. And I do have filters and could take water from out of the spring if it was a situation where I was stranded!
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oh well hey Melinda it sounds like you have a good set up there and have contingencies in place at least for the water if there's a water shortage. Sounds like the only problem would be if the gas had a shortage at the same time that the electric was out but I'm sure that's not going to happen.
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Staying warm this time of year would be a big concern. My fireplace is rated to burn wood, but that would require a chainsaw and being able-bodied enough to make firewood! I thought about getting a generator but if there was no natural gas odds are there would probably be a shortage of gasoline also to keep the generator running. Right? I'm not sure what the solution is. Wearing a down coat and hat and mittens in my kitchen?
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haha! precisely. I don't know what the emergency solutions would be but it's hard to imagine that the gas and electric would go off at the same time. I guess you could lay up a supply of wood to burn, like a weeks worth or something, burn just enough to keep from freezing. Wow that would be brutal up there! How did the pioneers survive?
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They must have shivered a lot, huh? I do have a couple tanks of propane around here for my gas grill. But I'm pretty sure you can asphyxiate yourself by trying to stay warm with that kind of heat! I do have lots of candles, haha. I have heated with wood for much of my life at one point we had a wood-burning furnace down in the basement that was a combination unit and when the wood fire died down the natural gas would kick in. And I had a wood/gas cookstove in the kitchen and a wood-burning stove in the living room so I do know how to build a fire and keeping warm that way is familiar to me, I just don't have the means to do that in this house. Maybe a little wood burning stove connected to the fireplace chimney wouldn't be a bad idea.
Okay I am totally rambling here. Talk to you tomorrow
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