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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  12/18/2006 06:41 AM,Gene GeRue wrote:
> >
> Glad you are back fully operational, Rob. With your background I
> would not worry about you anyway, but how useful was your Minnesota
> rural experience to getting through this storm?

I slept thru the storm <g>, I woke up and it was dark & later than it 
should have been on a work day. The loss of electricity was a pain in 
the butt, nothing worked but that only lasted less than 48 hrs. Some 
people are still out of power and they are still finding folks (dead) 
who ran a generator in their apartment (closed up) or brought the 
charcoal in to cook & heat with.

Wood heat would be nice but it doesn't get cold enough here to really 
need it and I don't have a place to put it either.
In MN I built an addition to house the wood burner off the single 
wide, the wood heat was a big help and the extra room was not bad 
either. I never did get a good roof connection/seal for the addition 
but the 2x6 "I" beam floor support worked well.

I think enough kerosene for 7 days and get the RV generator ready run 
at anytime will have to be enough preparations. I really don't have 
spare cash to get carried away but with this 'plan' the only thing 
I'll need that is extra is the 10 gallons of kerosene.
One think I would like is one of those hand crank radios (AM/FM/SW), 
not just because I'm worried about losing power but I like things 
that don't need batteries. It would be good fun to take camping.



Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA