When I was in DC last week, someone asked if my home in Oregon was off the grid. Not usually, but at 11 am today the power came back on after being out for about 30 hours.
Temperatures the night before last fell to 16 below zero, and the strain of numerous electric furnaces trying to compensate overwhelmed our local power coop. We made do with wood heat, cooked on the wood stove (which boils water and toasts bread a lot faster than electric appliances), and washed with water heated on the stove.
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About the only thing we missed was the Internet, and we didn’t miss that very much — my biggest regret was not being able to post to this blog. So here is my post for the day. Tomorrow I’ll get back to my usual rants.
“We made do with wood heat, cooked on the wood stove (which boils water and toasts bread a lot faster than electric appliances), and washed with water heated on the stove.”
Yes, let’s all live like pioneers in the wilds of Oregon circa 1845. Won’t that be fun!
Your point being?
Um, I imagine the AP was just sharing a personal experience, rather than advocating an assault on technology worthy of being chronicled in an anthem by Rush.
Though O’Toole rants for a “living”.
“Though O’Toole rants for a “livingâ€.”
It’s undoubtedly a better use of time than just waiting for him to post so you can make a pointless snarky comment like the above.
Come on RJ, the man’s a damn lobbyist!
Yes, I used to live in a place in Western WA that would lose power a couple times a year, and we had to ensure we had propane and wood and food always ready to go to weather the storm and esp wind. It was the only time I liked propane.
DS
gecko55 wrote:
> “We made do with wood heat, cooked on the wood stove (which boils water and toasts bread a lot faster
> than electric appliances), and washed with water heated on the stove.â€
>
> Yes, let’s all live like pioneers in the wilds of Oregon circa 1845. Won’t that be fun!
I detected nothing in the original posting which suggested advocacy for returning to the Oregon of 1845.
> Your point being?
Your point being?
Dan wrote:
> Yes, I used to live in a place in Western WA that would lose power a couple times a year, and we had to
> ensure we had propane and wood and food always ready to go to weather the storm and esp wind. It was the
> only time I liked propane.
From days of my grandparents’ place (in rural Maryland), where the power was not especially reliable, I recall using a simple kerosene-fired stove to keep warm. It worked well, since the fuel was fed from the outside tank to the burner by gravity and there were no electric parts (but kerosene fuel was (and still is) rather expensive).
The place used a well, and an electric submersible pump drew the water from the well to the house, so there was no running water if the power was out, and that was not so great.
As a boy we used to spend a lot of time in central Michigan with a similar setup, albeit with a hand pump on the well, and we’d rather have wood heat because of the cost of kerosene and prevalence of trees.
My buddies still talk about washing up after a long couple days of work and play outside in the snow, with water at best 35º. Brrr!
:o)
DS
“Yes, let’s all live like pioneers in the wilds of Oregon circa 1845. Won’t that be fun!
Your point being?”
“Though O’Toole rants for a “livingâ€.”
Holy moly, I generally disagree with the guy, too, but this post was about what he did during a power outage. You guys don’t have to be always on, you know. You can lay down arms once in a blue moon.
There are people on welfare that are more productive members of society than O’Toole!
The AGW effort will make no electricity more common.
Lobbyist?
Is it bad to promote development & prosperity?
Is it bad to have restrictions & extra fees to go to others?
Highman, you would be [un] happy in the USSR.
(Big central planning & no price mechanism.)
High-man,
How are persons taking others’ money, productive?
Why get caught up, in whatever Randal’s source of $ is?
He has his own POV, reality & education.
And POV is not just opinion, it has basis.
POV is much more than POV; it is econ reality & morality.
Moral? Certain people should pay for others? ….
You might work for ______ .
Is anything you say about ______ & its topics, not admissible?
It’s not even that. What’s right, just?
Hman, please relocate to Cuba or Venezuela.
How about: Balance personal rights with social duties.
How about: Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
How about: Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
How about: Leave room for nature.