Severe Weather Thread...

1bigfan13 said:
When I get home I'll still have to deal with about 4 or 5 days without power. I just hope my cell service starts working again. We don't even have consistent cell service in our area.
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I'm not sure I'd even know how to live for 4 or 5 days without power. Like what does one eat? What does one do for entertainment. Certainly you can't shower or work. No hot water to even take a decent shower. Would be pretty rough if I'm being honest.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
I'm not sure I'd even know how to live for 4 or 5 days without power. Like what does one eat? What does one do for entertainment. Certainly you can't shower or work. No hot water to even take a decent shower. Would be pretty rough if I'm being honest.
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Our water is fine so showering and cleaning is not an issue. Plus temps are still in the mid-80s here in GA so even if we run out of hot water, the water should still be lukewarm and not ice cold.

I have a charcoal grill with plenty of coal and wood to last a week. That's how we made a couple of our meals before we headed out of town.
 
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
I'm not sure I'd even know how to live for 4 or 5 days without power. Like what does one eat? What does one do for entertainment. Certainly you can't shower or work. No hot water to even take a decent shower. Would be pretty rough if I'm being honest.
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My in laws are in Aiken, SC and are now on Day 3 with no power. Sorry I could not take that.
 
boozeman said:
My in laws are in Aiken, SC and are now on Day 3 with no power. Sorry I could not take that.
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This is why I have a generator that runs on propane.
 
1bigfan13 said:
I have a charcoal grill with plenty of coal and wood to last a week. That's how we made a couple of our meals before we headed out of town.
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Makes me realize how unprepared I would be. My damn pellet smoker would be useless. Not even sure if my gas oven functions without power but maybe. Everything is plugged in these days.
 
boozeman said:
My in laws are in Aiken, SC and are now on Day 3 with no power. Sorry I could not take that.
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A couple of my co-workers live in Aiken and they said their power was turned back on yesterday. I guess they're on a different grid than your in-laws.

On my way to Columbia the lines for the Aiken exits were insane. It looked like a a bunch of people from the Augusta area were flooding Aiken hoping for shorter grocery and fuel lines than in Augusta.
 


I guess the wife ain’t getting that trip to Biltmore in the fall she has been talking about.
 
Cowboysrock55 said:
I'm not sure I'd even know how to live for 4 or 5 days without power. Like what does one eat? What does one do for entertainment. Certainly you can't shower or work. No hot water to even take a decent shower. Would be pretty rough if I'm being honest.
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I did it after Hurricane Fran or Floyd in 96 or 98. I was like 14 at the time though so it was probably way easier. I remember everyone pulled their grills out into the street and cooked up all the meat in their freezers cause it was gonna go bad and we had a block party.
 
I have four Tesla powerwalls attached to my house as part of my solar panel setup. As long as there is not a protracted time period of no sun, I can go indefinitely without grid power. And since we are on a well, I consider them to be an essential part of living here in Florida. No power = no shower and no flushable toilets.
 
boozeman said:
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Man, am I glad I didn't move to Florida when I was close to doing so about 10 years ago. You used to be relatively safe from these huge fucking hurricanes on the central to northern east coast there, but not anymore.
 
NoDak said:
I'll never understand why people would choose to live where this can happen.

Over. And over. And over.
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Western NC doesn't typically have weather that bad.
 
mcnuttz said:
Western NC doesn't typically have weather that bad.
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I was actually thinking about florida and the coastal areas when I wrote that. Where Hurricanes are a yearly thing.

Same with people that choose to live in tornado alley.
 
NoDak said:
I was actually thinking about florida and the coastal areas when I wrote that. Where Hurricanes are a yearly thing.

Same with people that choose to live in tornado alley.
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Gotcha, no way I'd move to Florida but we love to visit.
 
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