{"id":2991,"date":"2016-09-13T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2016-09-13T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:25:19","slug":"tuesday-13-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/09\/13\/tuesday-13-september-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 13 September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:25 –<\/span> We survived the Great Power Failure of 2016. I got up this morning as usual and took Colin out for his short morning constitutional. When I came back in the house, I noticed that the ceiling fan wasn’t spinning and when I flipped a light switch nothing happened. I tried calling Blue Ridge Electric Co-op but got only a fast busy, so it was apparently widespread. Fortunately, the power came back on about 0743.
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Lori, our USPS carrier, is definitely a prepper. Yesterday morning, I asked if she’d had a good weekend. She’d spent two solid days canning, everything from beans and vegetables to spaghetti sauces to beef stew. She was also happy that her brother had brought her a whole bunch of 2-liter soft drink bottles, because she doesn’t buy 2-liter bottles. She intends to wash and dry them and then fill them with bulk staples.
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She said she’s already in good shape on stored food, not even counting the 20 or so cattle that she keeps, but intends to keep going. I asked her about water. She doesn’t have any water stored, but she does have a spring on her property. Then she surprised me. She said that if things ever got really bad and we ran short of food that Barbara and I were welcome at her place. I thanked her and said that if we ever needed to take her up on that offer, it’d mean I’d committed an epic prepping fail.
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Prepping is pretty common up here in the mountains, I guess because most of us are just a big Basket of Deplorables. Barbara and I noticed when we were looking at homes to buy that many of them had massive amounts of food stored. One place was particularly notable. It had a large basement room filled with closely-spaced shelving that contained probably 10 to 20 person-years worth of cased canned goods and bulk staples. Many of the other homes we looked at had similar stockpiles, if not quite that size.
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09:25 – We survived the Great Power Failure of 2016. I got up this morning as usual and took Colin out for his short morning constitutional. When I came back in the house, I noticed that the ceiling fan wasn’t spinning and when I flipped a light switch nothing happened. I tried calling Blue Ridge Electric Co-op but got only a fast busy, so it was apparently widespread. Fortunately, the power came back on about 0743.<\/p>\n

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