AND- AND- these are the absolutely dumb motherfuckers that push energy poverty onto everyone else. Ah poor baby you had to chop wood. This is what energy poverty is you shithead.
They are just government dependent pussies. This Colorado City mayor said it best.
No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice!
I've been to Colorado City and maybe he still quit or whatever, but it's super rural area and I have no doubt a lot of his people agree.
I'm right in the middle of it, was prepared, and was also lucky enough to have no issues. Still, I'm learning from the situation anyway and just improving on it. I'm putting solar panels on my shed, about the cost of a decent small generator except I can use it all the time to run exterior floodlights, inside lighting, charge tools, run a fan, whatever. If the power goes out I run a cord inside and can pretty much run some lamps and a tablet indefinitely and don't have to be in the 19th century. A small generator would just sit and require maintenance and still wouldn't run a heater or AC unit. Sometime this summer or fall I'll buy a little propane heater, I actually was considering one for camping anyway. Weather hits next year or twenty years from now and all I have to do is top up food and fuel supplies and I'm good until they run out. If I never need the stuff, they provide me value in other uses and aren't a sunk cost.
But yeah, you can't even ask anyone else to have some cans of food around without the government or I'm sure you're racist or something.
The only pushback I'd give is that those of us who are renting don't really have the option of updating our house to make it more independent. Even with a generator, you have to have the right equipment on the home to make it work. And a lot of landlords won't update one thing because they are grandfathered in and would have to bring the whole house up to code.
Totally fair, I was more rambling on about my cool projects. I actually wanted some of this stuff a year or so ago irregardless of the weather situation.
My main point that may have gotten lost in my rambling was disgust with the people I saw who were already apparently on the brink of death after 24 hours because they just couldn't be bothered to try. Not only should they have done better before, but look to improve the situation next time around. I've actually been through similar albeit slightly warmer when I lived in an apartment. It wasn't quite as aspirational as my current plan, but it was a different time in my life. I was never hurting for food then either. Maybe it's just I'm from the South and we knew when a winter storm comes to have food and don't count on electricity or transportation. It was always a joke that people would go stock up on bread, milk, and eggs whenever they said the word "snow" on the news.
I wonder what that mayor would say about citizens who chose to "swim" by constructing their own 100 KW backup generator w/ 10,000 gallon propane tank for their block without pulling the appropriate permits. Or if someone chose to drill their own hand-pump well on their property for an emergency source of water without those permits (or possibly water rights). Would he take a laissez faire position as he is here, or would he bring the hammer of the government down on them?
AND- AND- these are the absolutely dumb motherfuckers that push energy poverty onto everyone else. Ah poor baby you had to chop wood. This is what energy poverty is you shithead.
They are just government dependent pussies. This Colorado City mayor said it best.
I've been to Colorado City and maybe he still quit or whatever, but it's super rural area and I have no doubt a lot of his people agree.
I'm right in the middle of it, was prepared, and was also lucky enough to have no issues. Still, I'm learning from the situation anyway and just improving on it. I'm putting solar panels on my shed, about the cost of a decent small generator except I can use it all the time to run exterior floodlights, inside lighting, charge tools, run a fan, whatever. If the power goes out I run a cord inside and can pretty much run some lamps and a tablet indefinitely and don't have to be in the 19th century. A small generator would just sit and require maintenance and still wouldn't run a heater or AC unit. Sometime this summer or fall I'll buy a little propane heater, I actually was considering one for camping anyway. Weather hits next year or twenty years from now and all I have to do is top up food and fuel supplies and I'm good until they run out. If I never need the stuff, they provide me value in other uses and aren't a sunk cost.
But yeah, you can't even ask anyone else to have some cans of food around without the government or I'm sure you're racist or something.
The only pushback I'd give is that those of us who are renting don't really have the option of updating our house to make it more independent. Even with a generator, you have to have the right equipment on the home to make it work. And a lot of landlords won't update one thing because they are grandfathered in and would have to bring the whole house up to code.
Totally fair, I was more rambling on about my cool projects. I actually wanted some of this stuff a year or so ago irregardless of the weather situation.
My main point that may have gotten lost in my rambling was disgust with the people I saw who were already apparently on the brink of death after 24 hours because they just couldn't be bothered to try. Not only should they have done better before, but look to improve the situation next time around. I've actually been through similar albeit slightly warmer when I lived in an apartment. It wasn't quite as aspirational as my current plan, but it was a different time in my life. I was never hurting for food then either. Maybe it's just I'm from the South and we knew when a winter storm comes to have food and don't count on electricity or transportation. It was always a joke that people would go stock up on bread, milk, and eggs whenever they said the word "snow" on the news.
I wonder what that mayor would say about citizens who chose to "swim" by constructing their own 100 KW backup generator w/ 10,000 gallon propane tank for their block without pulling the appropriate permits. Or if someone chose to drill their own hand-pump well on their property for an emergency source of water without those permits (or possibly water rights). Would he take a laissez faire position as he is here, or would he bring the hammer of the government down on them?