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Well, sometimes Life just Blows...
13 years ago
Literally.
The news is saying that Anchorage had it so bad with winds in the upper crust high society end of town getting winds to 130mph, but we had it easy out in the valley. After gusts of 130 to 140 miles an hour here, we spent 4 days without power. I have never been so grateful for power in my life as when they turned it back on this afternoon. I am planning a battery backup and off the grid system already, and plan to be installing it somewhere around here just as soon as I can afford 20 to 30 deep cycle car batteries and the generator to charge them, an inverter to plug into our power grid in the house and all that. I am still behind a chainsaw in the afternoons cleaning the trees down in our yard (there were over 20) of which 6 had widowmakered up in the stand of birch beside them and I had to get in there and drop a bunch of them all at once... which while exciting, in a get your adrenaline racing, kind of way, it no fun. I still have at least 3 more days of chainsaw work, but I have to go buy a second chain and a sharpening file tomorrow before I can do any more.
Anywho... I am back, we are safe, if a little frazzled, and I will be getting back to commissions within the week.
The news is saying that Anchorage had it so bad with winds in the upper crust high society end of town getting winds to 130mph, but we had it easy out in the valley. After gusts of 130 to 140 miles an hour here, we spent 4 days without power. I have never been so grateful for power in my life as when they turned it back on this afternoon. I am planning a battery backup and off the grid system already, and plan to be installing it somewhere around here just as soon as I can afford 20 to 30 deep cycle car batteries and the generator to charge them, an inverter to plug into our power grid in the house and all that. I am still behind a chainsaw in the afternoons cleaning the trees down in our yard (there were over 20) of which 6 had widowmakered up in the stand of birch beside them and I had to get in there and drop a bunch of them all at once... which while exciting, in a get your adrenaline racing, kind of way, it no fun. I still have at least 3 more days of chainsaw work, but I have to go buy a second chain and a sharpening file tomorrow before I can do any more.
Anywho... I am back, we are safe, if a little frazzled, and I will be getting back to commissions within the week.
Still... Worst one to touch down in about 35 or 40 years... Last one this bad hit Birchwood Airport and my old man picked up something like a dozen airplanes for 4 or 5000 buck as salvage. Destroyed almost every airplane at the airport. Only one I know of that survived was my lady's grandad's kite.
But the money is in and my bamboo is coming really soon. I plan to reformat and reinstall some things. Glad things are better for you and I'd LOVE to talk with you more on your "off the grid" strategy and technicals o: