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I know for a fact that you are quite well-versed on basing things on fire - so I never had any concerns at all about how you were gonna come out of this, brother...

This shiit just ain't a Fiction Action Movie anymore, is it?...

You guys still laughing at my flip phone? Right. Told you. All of you. Over a decade ago. Limit your footprint, as much as you can.

Yeah. Fuq that tech. Gotta go.

Ever heard of Flock cameras? They are a problem and they are everywhere. Here is Johnny B's first video on the subject Here's the second video. Here is the video he referenced at the end.

60 deg today. Warmer the next 2 then back to winter.

Correct. Most homes are dependent on it, not all but most. Being w/o power is the pits. Glad to hear you got power back. We're rural and my plan after we first moved to rural Maine was to revert back to pre-REA days. Kerosene figured prominently in those plans. That plan worked fine for short outages which we had a lot of. Then we had an ice storm that put 4-5" of ice on everything. Trees came down and power lines couldn't take the weight. So out came our kerosene appliances to supply our light, heat, and cooking needs, to include melting ice for the toilet, washing, and after filtering, drinking*. What worked for short outages then showed the flaw. Pre-REA days had homes that weren't as tight as todays homes. Burning hydrocarbons produces water which started to condense on the cold walls. We were screwed. Store shelves were empty and the area was devastated. We know because we had to go out to see what was going on. Most folks couldn't move but our 4x4 made it through and around the downed trees. We were w/o power for 5 days and only got it back that soon because we're on a trunk line. It was that ice storm that caused me to rethink things. I put in a solar (PV) system with battery back-up. Now if the power goes out I can furnish power in seconds from the massive 24v batteries. Typically the solar part is useless in a storm 'cause of the clouds, but if the clouds clear out our smallish system will power the house if we're careful in consumption. But I also put in a welder/generator and that can easily handle larger loads and recharge the batteries. Sort of like the way a WW2 diesel/battery submarine worked. I also had built an addition specifically for a wood stove. We have a lifetime supply of wood. * W/o power our well pump doesn't work. And since it wasn't TEOTWAKI I wasn't going to remove the pump and 100' of piping to use the well casing "bucket". But our weather, the reason I came here... We're back in the deep freeze and snow is expected over the next 36 hours. When I woke up it was 18* and that was actually warmer than yesterday this time. 3 more months of this.

well the lights are back on just short of 7 days .... man depends on electricity like our ancestors depended on Fire!

A great man who cared about others more than himself......

He's pretty much considered a Saint here in WNC for his personal helicopter help immediately following Hurricane Helene.

Very nice!

I only knew of him from NASCAR. He sounds like he and his family have earned their place with God.

This. I'm not cynical, but stuff like this conspires to make you believe that only the good die young. Had his whole family + 3 guests on board, a bad day for those of us in the Carolinas who knew & thought a whole lot of him.

What he did after the Carolina floods last year was amazing. No questions asked. Just took his helicopter and went. A real tragic loss.

My nominations https://youtu.be/Bmx--WjeN7o?si=lebCYSK8MZTAaLp8

Once in a life time human. You don't run into people like this in life, unless you're lucky enough to bump into them in a blind turn. Amazing human. God Speed, my friend...

Merry Christmas all you merry men..... this is the way I would do it if I was still in a band !

Sad Day. Greg Biffle passed. Long story if you weren't aware of him , but he's a legend in NASCAR, and a legend to duners in Glamis. Sucks. He was close friends with Cleetus McFarland, and they both flew helicopters to deliver aid during the NC disaster. He was more thaqn a NASCAR racer - he was a duner, humanitarian, and a badass human being. That Cleetus vid is the tribute. He has a compound out at Glamis that is unreal. On a place where private individuals can't own lad - he found a way. That place is right behind Vendors Row and the Glamis Beach Store - and it's IMMENSE. It's the biggest "Barndominium" you've ever seen. Sad day in the motorsports industry... RIP, Brother...

We recently came out of arctic air that invaded us for a few weeks. Then we got warmish temps and lotsa rain, that melted most of the snow. Then a wind storm. Now more cold has come in. I wanted to go for a walk in the woods to test a hunting conversion of the KIDD SG and the new trigger I put in it, better for a field trigger. But today is cold with high winds. Sure I could go for a walk with the rifle, and do what? It's cold with a hefty wind chill and I'm a wuss. Today we got a snow squall with not much snow but it was graupel snow... spherical snow. It's supposedly rare but we get it quite often; 4 or 5 times so far this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel

Ahh starting day five NO POWER..... making coffee Generator is running life is good......

Have been enjoying this project for some time now. Got her down to 1/4 moa with a number of different load combinations from 110 sierras to 175 sierras. Today the inside of the .308 X-Caliber 26" SS in 1-10 got a coating of HBN as a test to see if there is any noticeable difference. Receiver is a 30+ year old Savage 110 flat top with EDW rail and JARD trigger. Scope is a Leupold MK5 HD 7-35x56mm. Action sits in an ORYX chassis with bag sliders fore and aft. Suppressor is an OSS HXQD 338 mag TI. Whatta Hobby!

I'm on the edge of what @Magwa and @sketch are dealing with.

Snowmobiling is a year round sport

That's all apple pie tech, even here it's not super common on the shelf product. Electrical wholesalers will bring them in if they don't have them in stock.