Meanwhile down here in the Mid-Atlantic, there was all this noise about massive snow storms (one this weekend, one early next week). Like massive snow bombs since we’ve not seen substantial snow in the past couple of years. I dug my shovel out of the shed and got a bag of snow melt just to be prepared.
Nope. Looks like it’s all going to be wind and rain. Maybe a shred of a chance of some wintery mix at the tail end of it all.
Yep. Gutters double cleaned, show shovel on back porch, trash cans and car secured under cover. Rain, we will get rain and maybe some mix.
sigh. I kind of want to see some snow, esp the sort that melts in a day or two so I don’t have to shovel.
I do my best to be around, but my main focus is Twitter/X.
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Same. Give me a good snow fall for a day or two, but don’t let it snag up travel and require personal digging or plowing. If I hadn’t tried to be prepared, we’d get the band dropped and be buried in for a week no doubt. 
But even with knowing it was going to be pure rain by now - when I went to grab a couple of essentials yesterday? That bread aisle was near bare. Whisper snow and the craziness sets in no matter how the forecast changes.
I had to go out Wed and things were fine in the bread aisle. I saw a few folks stocking up on bottled water though. Around here things flood so it is actually good to make sure we don’t have to drive too far in heavy rain as the roads down by the rivers get closed. Good weekend to stay in, wear comfy warm jammies, and play WoW (or Palia).
I will blame your prep for this lack of snow though 
I’m well stocked for myself and the furballs. It’s just going to be a bum-around weekend and I’ve no intention of leaving until I go for a follow-up doctor’s appointment Tuesday afternoon.
Twitter/X is that still really a thing? So 1999
Was there a social media platform in 1999? Myspace was 2003, Facebook 2004, Twitter didn’t launch until around 2006/7.
Twitter, despite some of the drama and negativity around it, can be extremely useful. We tend to use it informatively and avoid all the other drivel.
We haven’t seen snow here in 6 years. Though we do rarely get snow being in the far South (right above FL state line), I would still like to see it once in a while.
Saying 1999 is just showing my age just a little. I am sure myspace was the thing back then, Long time before twitter or facebook.
Your lucky, I think it was 2 years ago in January we got a too much snow and ice and lost power for about 8 days. Not fun when it was pretty darn cold and your on well water, So no power no water. Great old Virginia
Yeah… we had an ice storm that took out power for over a week and were in the same situation. Early 1990’s. We had a generator though and an electric circuit breaker panel set up for it specifically. One option was to turn off everything else, then run the well pump. That let us flush toilets and fill up containers, etc. Not fun, but also not terrible! Anyone stuck out in the boondocks where power goes out for a long time/often, should consider a generator if they can. It did not run the whole house, but did run enough like the fridge, freezer, furnace fan, and a few lights.
I love having a generator built in to our electrical system. We have a 200 gallon propane tank that provides fuel for it. The generator runs our entire house and the barn.
So far we have only used it for those 22 hours that power was out last year when the hurricane hit. But I’d rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
We hope to put in a deep well soon and get off this nasty city water. Will probably also do a shallow well with a hand pump.
How do i unbookmark a thread i have this lounge Bookmarked but dont rember bookmarking it.
Lucky!!! My current house does not have one, but I can walk to the hospital, police, schools, and whatever shelter is powered…so there is that. I almost never lose power being so close to the central emergency stuff. I still have a full set of emergency gear though. Camp stove, fuel, food, water, etc etc.
My parents have what you described. It kicks in automatically and they love it. They are up in the mountains in NH so they do lose power pretty often and it is very cold. Wood stove, log cabin style home, generator, and lots of supplies.
Generators are awesome, even more so if it is built in like yours!
Find the bookmarked post, click the bookmark.
Then click the trash can in the bottom corner of the dialog that opens.
I was hoping for something easier they all look the same.
Oh, I didn’t mean to search manually, sorry.
Click your character portrait in the upper corner then click the bookmark icon from there, on the right-hand side of the dropdown.
It’ll bring up a list of bookmarks and take you right to the specific one you click on.
In other nice QOL, I just noticed the forum navigation finally has a proper Blue/MPV tracker.