Be prepared

Jeeves · Mar 8, 2020

so cute, and yet so

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davewhite04 · Mar 15, 2020

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confession
Most of the above was posted as humor.......................

That being said, we are rural, and I grew up rural. so when you know that you might be stuck where you are due to flood or blizzard or ice storm, you make sure to be well provisioned, and able to survive without electricity.

bunker
The fool who started building the main part of the house was a survivalist, and he did make a bunker under the garage. He made a video of the place in an attempt to sell it and in his video, he said..."and when you are down here, you are surrounded by a minimum of 10 inches of concrete on all six sides. ..... he ran out of money before he finished the house and could not sell it for what he had in to it-----so, I bought it from the bank for less than they had in it.
The fool thought "bunker", and I thought "thermal mass"-----so with a rented saw, $200.00 of diamond sawblades and hammers and chisels, I somewhat debunkerized it, and put a wood burning stove down there which warms the thermal mass. Heat rises---so, when that thermal mass is warm, it heats the house as it givAes up it's heat all night long. And then, I built a solar heat collector atop the garage, and with a channel and blower, blow 80-120 degree air down to that onetime bunker which also warms that thermal mass. When the sun is shining(no clouds) that supplies most of the heatload for the shop and house for the electricity used by the blower.

That being said: It seems(to me) that most survivalists invest too heavily in preparations for events which will most likely, never happen.
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Sounds cosy. A pleasure to meet you.

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