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Pretend you're in Japan, strolling naked down the street to the local bath house wrapped in your summer yukata (kimono or bath robe to the uninitiated). It's the equivalent of a visit to the coffee shop.
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I hear you, Mistress Kimm.......we rode it out here in FL on the east coast. The power is on and the water does come out in a trickle but everyone is fine. Enjoy the shower for me
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Ugh! Sorry you've been impacted. Down the hill we barely got rain.
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Bummer. After New York got a freak 12" snowstorm in October and then Hurricanes Irene and Sandy (Lost power for 6 days during Irene, less for the other events) we got a stand-by generator. It's hooked to the house and goes on automatically if the power goes out for 30 seconds or longer. It uses propane so we switched out our two little dipshit 25 gallon cylinders and got a 100 gallon tank. The generator uses less propane if we use less power so if we turn off a lamp we can hear it go into a lower power mode. Potentially it could last a week, maybe more if we conserved power. So in the case of a zombie apocalypse or a hypercane (year-long super hurricane) we'd have that extra week to watch all the movies we recorded on the DVR before we'd be in the dark and have to read books by candle light. So all we'd need to live for a year would be a 50-foot barbed wire electric fence charged by solar cells, a year's worth of food and water and an arsonal of weapons with lots of bullets and a few friends to man the guardposts 24-7.
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replies on 9/14/2017 10:01 am: OK, I so want to ask what you spent on that... We looked into one that you can just plug a few things into, but none are available anywhere (of course) right now. I always thought our place would be perfect for fending off zombies as we are up on a hill, but you two are much more prepared! I call dibs for M and I on your guest bed! About $4,500. five or six years ago. (It's a 10 kilowatt.) We got it on the Internet. It was about $1000.00 higher in a retail store. (It's the kind that you can't wheel around. It stays in one place. Another $700. to hire an electrician to install it. $50. for the battery, $20.00 to tip the delivery guy who helped me move it from the truck to the platform I built for it. About $100. for the 4" X 4" and gravel that I used for the platform. Another $200. to get the gas company to switch out the tanks and put a gas line from the generator to the gas tank. Every two years we pay about $250. to have it serviced. (Any person handy with tools and foreign-written directions could service it themselves. Thus, I pay someone to service it. That comes out to $5,500. with everything. I thought the price for a 10,000 W (10 KW) generator would be much higher today but I saw comparable models for less! Guest bed? You can have the whole upstairs guest room. It's air conditioned, has its own TV and a futon with convenient straps to tie silk ropes to.... Just sayin....
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MistressKimm replies on 9/15/2017 12:05 am: Thank you for answering that We may have to consider one in the future. After the roof on the deck, finishing the walls downstairs, the back patio he has planned, etc.. This homeownership thing is a real drain on the budget. There is so much we want to do! Waiting until you fund those other items shouldn't be a real problem. There isn't another zombie apocalypse scheduled until mid 2019.
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Kim I had no clue til just now. Damn Irma in-fucking-deed. I had to check where you lived. In NC...? ...fuck. +++++++++++++++++ Anyway, I've long preferred natural gas to electricity for appliances and heating. And the idea of having a stationary 13-25 watt generator (nat. gas -line-powered) is more and more attractive... WTF good is credit if you never use it, eh? Looking into all of it ($$) right now... ANd super glad y'all're ok, too! Doc_Sonar I advocate Simplicity, Patience & Compassion...to the extent that doing so won't threaten or harm My boundaries or Me. ~ Doc_Sonar Breathe Deeply~ Peace
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