Rural Power Outages: Unprepared and Unpreparedness

[hypatia]

Wind storms kept us in a brown out all day, so we cut the main power to the house and have been running on generator all day, and now into the night. One last fill up, then I can go to bed.

 

[turbo]

It's gotten up to 7 deg F this morning with a light breeze, so I may get out a bit today. Yesterday was colder with a brisk NW wind so I pretty much stayed in and tended the wood stove. I used to be much more tolerant of cold - as a ski patrol member at Enchanted Mountain I used to get to work early every day to inspect the trails and recommend drift-busting, packing, grooming, etc. Many mornings, the manager would make us wait until the temperature got up to at least -20 deg F before he would let us on the chair lift. Walking out to the ski rack, the snow would make high-pitched squeaking noises.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That just isn't right...

 

[Moonbear]

That just isn't right...

Yeah, the one in pink is definitely too fat for a bikini!

 

[Math Is Hard]

Yeah, the one in pink is definitely too fat for a bikini!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Yeah, the one in pink is definitely too fat for a bikini!

Maybe that was it! I kept thinking that the pink flamingo was out of place.