Me when I sit down to poop and realize I left my phone in the other room

I should probably be more prepared for something serious

https://i.imgur.com/KqPWKjo.jpg

We still use our gas floor furnace to heat our home in the winter. It’s awesome, and the only way it goes out is if the natural gas is cut off.

Pay the electric bill is a quality hack

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False security, Its gotta come from somewhere. A lot can go wrong between there and you!

My lines are underground.

My neighbor decided to cut our shared line taking a tree/tree roots out.

:rolleyes:

Luckily, we just pull the electric meter and plug our welder/ generator into line going to house. Will run for 8 hrs before I need to refuel.

Not a whole house generator, just something to get us by for a while.

You can use the water for whatever you need water for and you can pour it in the top of your stool and it will flush!

Fire pit

burn a squirrel alive

We have frequent power outages in the winter but they typically don’t last very long - 20 minutes to an hour at most is what is typical. We get bad winds that blow trees onto power lines.

A few years ago we had a really bad storm with gusts up to 100mph in some places. Power was out for 3+ days at our house. My wood stoves could not keep up. Main part of the house would not get above about 35. So, we got a 6500W generator and put in the switch so our house could run off that. Since then we’ve had to run it for at least 2 major storms. It won’t power everything but it will power the heater and the water pump (we have a well) And what we need.

We have about a couple weeks’ worth of food in general because I don’t want a bad earthquake to prevent us from getting food. I admit, if an earthquake keeps us without power or food for >1 week, we are super hosed.

But we just got another 6” of snow last night and a bunch of wind. No power issues so thus far we are good.

What part of Alaska do you live? Juneau is interesting.

Really? you don't seem so doofus.

Get a solar powered battery pack charge it up and get a converter to run a heater off of it

To get much in the way of battery storage is still pretty pricey. Especially if you are talking about an electric heater as opposed to running the fan of say a gas heater.

I wish the solar/battery combo was cheaper. But my small propane generator, can't remember exactly but a few hundred dollars and it's not hard to have enough propane on hand to make it last two or three days cycling the generator on and off. If the power outage was local enough, could potentially buy more propane during the outage.

That much pure battery storage looked expensive. Unfortunately my roof line is shaded by my neighbors trees so I don't think solar is that good of deal for me.

I also keep thinking used car batteries that still have significant storage left in them should show up in second hand markets?

Dodging moose and bears does sound interesting. I'm wondering if they are as common as deer here.