Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for January 03, 2017

I hate people who love trees to the detriment of people. The local power company is fed up and taking all trees down near power lines. Then the tree NUTS come out crying for the trees. They don’t care who dies in power outages. As for decorative plantings. Grow a nice bush, there are hundreds to choose from and they don’t endanger power lines.

Need to put power lines underground

Always a great feeling of relief when the power finally comes on again. All’s right with the world.

The higher density housing is less likely to lose power and any outages are of lesser duration. Don’t want to live that close, then get a standby generator.

We’ve had some long power outages, and the worse ones seem to come with ice storms. Not good with an all-electric house, but thankfully, we put in a wood stove in preparation for Y2K. It doesn’t heat the house evenly enough to use it except in emergencies, but we’ve used it for more than one power outage. Twice we’ve gone to stay with my mom, waiting for the power to come back on. The first time, she still had power. The second time, she didn’t either, but couldn’t cope without it (or Dad’s help, who had died by that time), so we drove to her house. (She also had a wood stove). It isn’t very comfortable using just a wood stove for heat, but it is better than freezing to death. At least it usually buys us enough time to get the roads less dangerous to travel on to go anywhere else.

OK everybody’s there except … Gumbo!

OH NO! Where’s Gumbo?

Maybe it was just time for walkies (indoor of course, the weather outside is frightful)

It was cold in the house, Katie and Clayton have on coats and hats, the adults have on coats, yet baby Nick only has footed pj’s. He should’ve at least had a hat and blanket.

DocToon. You should enjoy today’s Non Sequitur

I have solar backup. Works great. Power went out during Hurricane Matthew. Had lights, heat and the appliances all worked. We are not off grid but have the solar for emergencies. Also a backup generator (uses fuel) and wood heat (insert) if needed. We use the backup generator to help our neighbors with their freezers and refrigerators. It doesn’t take much to have a basic solar backup package and its well worth the time and investment.

Way to keep the Grim Reaper at bay. Don’t forget to thank the line crew too working in such miserable weather conditions

I’m thinking those power lines that were put underground to avoid tree branches are getting old enough now to be disrupted by tree roots growing through them — it’s a karma thing!

And somewhere out there in that storm a very frozen group of workers are putting their tools away, getting ready to move on to the next location with a line down or transformer blown.Thanks guys! (and gals).

The worst part is the food in the fridge. At least ice storms provide a walk out cooler.

woah