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Various rants, observations, and plans. Water froze in our cabin. Again. The water worked last on Sunday, January 27, morning. It got down to -10, overnight. Got water out of sink, then flushed toilet and tank refilled. Then, nothing. Should have investigated further. Went home with the...

For backpacking. Anyone use them? How does it compare to sleeping in a tent? I'm trying to minimize how much weight I have to carry, and this seems like a good way to do that while getting myself off the ground. What is a reasonable temperature range to use a hammock? I'd like to get down to...

Didn't want to hijack the "blanket in my BOB" but it made me think about my sleeping arrangements now that winter is here in the soon to be frozen world. First as you can see from my handle. I'm in the PacNW @ 2400' and the Almanac is calling for a colder than normal La Nina`winter w/ above...

I'm sure you've heard about it by now, specially if you live in Alaska. If you haven't, there is a storm from The Day After Tomorrow coming your way. I'll copy and paste what I posted in a different thread. Serious danger for Alaska. A winter storm with hurricane force winds... Alaska faces...

After losing power and having no water, heat or electricity for 8 days (still had fireplace heat) I reviewed all of my disaster protocols and preps and found the one prep I was missing was a generator so I am in the process of getting a Generac 10,000 watt whole house generator with automatic...

This weekend we had a heavy wet snow snapping trees all over the place and a resulting power outage. With chainsaw in truck I made an ice run getting enough for myself and surrounding neighbors. Bearing in mind that I live way out in the country and my neighbors are country folks. Now listen to...

Well ... power just came back on and this is the first time I've posted in this forum for a day and a half. Obama had just visited Denver and darkness followed him. No ... literally. We had a heavy, slushy snow storm and power across the state of Colorado went out. Obama had come to town...

I'm looking into a set of ecwcs gear that I can leave in my truck in case I need it for work as well as using it for hunting in the fall and fishing in the summer/fall(w/o the liner of course), and should the need arise for other situations that require wet/cold gear. I have heard a lot of...

Our weather broke, we've been single digits or less and suddenly we have a heat wave! It got clear up 28 degrees Fahrenheit today. Warm enough to get some of the little ones outside. I've got four of 'em, two boys and two girls with my third son due in March. We are all active outdoors year...

I live in a small city in an apartment. I have no fireplace. In a long term power failure in wintertime, is there any way I can survive the cold? this is electric heat so if there was a long term power failure what could I do? right now its -22 C, which is about -7 F I think. I turned the heat...

We're all stuck at home today. My husband plowed the driveway for 45 minutes. He really didn't want to use a personal day at work so he tried to get to the highway. One of our 4wd vehicles is now buried in the ditch about 300 yards from our house. The FIL is bringing the tractor down later...

Anyone else out there not really that worked up about getting hit by this storm? Where I am from and in my experience, this is winter. This is how it is. There is food in the house. Wood for the stove is always ready. Candles and lanterns are always in the draws/cabinets. There is always gas in...

North Texas power plants might have to cut back on power production because they are not designed for cold fronts like what just blew threw. Due to the power plants being closed, parts of Texas might experience rolling blackouts...

We woke up at about 2:30 this morning with a feeling of dread...the house was unusually chilly. We set the thermostat at 66 degrees at night, but it reported that is was 59 degress and we could feel cool air blowing through the vents. I went downstairs to the furnace room...the fan was...

Between helping my buddy plowing last nite, and various rescue missions I ended up running, have to say last night was the biggest SHTF of recent memory. I will have more stories in the following day, but for now: We were on the way in to get an extra truck when we came on a car with a young...

Hundreds of thousands of people are affected by this winter storm. I'm just curious the percentage that were prepared and the ones with their pants flappin' in the wind? Also are there any posters from this forum enduring all this weather? How are you doing? Would there be anything (if at...

Buurrrrrr. Here in Idaho we can get down to -25°F, but this morning was close to that. At these times it reminds me how important an alternate form of heat and power is just in case there is a problem with the power grid.

Blizzard Warning Michigan It would seem its the first one since 1978. We are expecting 21 inches here in the Kalamazoo area, so I did a few checklist items yesterday and today to get ready. FYI the wife works at the hospital in trauma surgery so they actually did a lock down on them today...

16.9 here in West Texas. windchill is 0. :xeye: