Remember awhile back, hurricane Irma hit our area unusually hard. While we had power the entire time, all of our neighbors went 6 days without power. This time, we've prepped like we were going to get hit with another Irma, or worse. I spent some of my time yesterday, moving most things out of the garage, into the shed. I put a tarp across the whole garage floor, then set up all the freshly cleaned cages for my chickens.
On an amusing note, Dh has always given me a hard time about using the generator if the power goes out. It's for dire emergencies only. Yesterday morning, he was giving me his usual hard time about using the generator, if the power goes out. I looked at him, and said, "you know the dire emergency we're to save the generator for?" "Yes", he replied. I said, "well THIS IS IT." The look on his face was a Kodak moment. It's like he was saving it for a zombie apocalypse, and anything short of that was not enough of an emergency to use it. I reminded him, it's not a one use only item. It can be used over, and over. Sheesh. We had 2 full tanks, and I made him fill 3 more, so I now have 5 full tanks. I mentioned that I could get through 7 - 10 days on the 5 tanks.
He mentioned that according to his calculations, which are somewhat flawed, 3 tanks would only give me 3 days worth of power. He further mentioned that I had to be extremely conservative with it, so it would last at least 21 days, or more. Oh, and I couldn't run it at night, since the sound would carry more at night, and people would try shooting us to loot us, and take our food. "Then shoot back", was my response. He's definitely got a doomsday mentality. I reminded him it was a local disaster, not country wide. In addition, I was not staying here with 3 kids, longer than a week without power. I have several friends, and family in other states, with electricity, that I could visit for a short time, until power was fully restored here.
Considering his reaction(s), I think I understand his thinking a bit more, and we will be making a few changes soon, regarding propane. I had told him when we first moved in, that instead of so many individual tanks that are enclosed in what looks to be a shed, I wanted him to call the gas company, and have a big tank installed. I wanted a gas range too. He mentioned how the tank would have to be buried, so no one could see it, and he didn't think it would be safe. I couldn't understand what he was talking about. Now, digging into his doomsday brain, I understand a bit more. Yeah, I think we will be getting a big tank. He can rebuild the shed around it, like the one for the smaller tanks, if he's so concerned about it being seen.
that does seem to be all people think of when they think of California!
Me by some of them
