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[Mini Horses]

Dang, those temps would be a nightmare for me! I had a morning of 15 last week and only a few hrs worth. Rare temp for here! You guys get that for days! I couldn't deal. happy for y'all that tolerate.

 

[Alaskan]

Hmmm. No oil lamps??? Really? In Alaska???

Figured you'd be set for anything!!!!

So, sorry more snow, no power. At least food spoiling with no cold isn't an issue you have wood stove, right? Sorry for your snow stranding. keep us updated.

I USED to have bright oil lamps... little kids broke a few, whatever was left i put into storage... humm... maybe I should find at least one and bring it out of storage. "Baby" is now 16.

We have candles and olive oil votive lamps (votive lamps for the prayer corner). Votive lamps aren't all that bright, neither are candles... not good enough for desk work.

But eh... we are fine. No problems really. No power and lots of snow is entertainment. And the question of "do you WANT to go to that much work to do X, or just skip it?"

 

[Alaskan]

Looks like here
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Guess I lied earlier, not 12°F outside, said 9°F on my truck this morning. Was cold enough that when I went to deal with inverter to see why it stopped charging the battery last night from genset that when I restarted the unit it didn’t come back on. No time to deal with it left it off, got home tonight, after popping cover off and turning heater on it, it came back on back to life. Hmm this happened last winter. Time to move the whole setup to a heated structure. They said the unit can handle down to -4°F, BS. Don't like the unit, my last one from Aims Corp kept the lights on no matter what and didn't need updates.

Yeah... some things do not run well in the cold.

One winter we were out of power and it was deeply cold. How cold? No idea... can't remember the number.

I just remember seeing our neighbor SUPER bundled up, hunched over his generator.. with a hairdryer plugged INTO the generator and pointed AT the generator. Yep.. I mean... poor guy! But the generator would stall out without the hairdryer pointed at it.

I was VERY happy that our house has an excellent wood stove!!

 

[SageHill]

Blah, blah, blah.....

Saw an emergency flashlight was out of batteries 2 days back... and I did not immediately find replacements.

So yeah, today we are out of power.

God clearly loves the incompetent... because the boys and I had a huge hot and hardy meal at noon. The power went out at about 1:30pm.

All good, don't need to see anyway. Now at 4:12 I had to stop office work... there is still light, but it is dim.

Over a foot of snow, heavy wet mess.

We had a friend come up and push back the trees in the road.... plow guy is swamped, duh... but will try to make a quick pass through our place.

Plow guy said "weatherman says no more snow for about a day" I said "weatherman lied, look at the sky! It is going to snow again, real soon, and if I get any more snow, you will not be able to plow this mess "

Anyway... yep..... snowing again right now!

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OMG Those photos!!! Should be framed. Gorgeous

 

[Weldman]

Dang, those temps would be a nightmare for me! I had a morning of 15 last week and only a few hrs worth. Rare temp for here! You guys get that for days! I couldn't deal. happy for y'all that tolerate.

This is nothing, come next month or at the end of this one we will go below zero and stay down there. That's when plastic and rubber become brittle, LCD's stop being able to be read, frost starts crawling up the places not insulated enough in your house and engines won't start.