Let there be Light
If you live in the northeast, you'll have spent the day recouping from the storm that just whipped through here. Everywhere in our neck of the nation got treated to some excitement over the last couple of days. For us it was about 36 hours without power.
Here in the boondocks losing power is fairly commonplace during a storm but the power company can usually get it back on after a few hours. Two mornings without it gets a little tiresome. The woodstove keeps us warm but there's no water (a submersible pump delivers our water from an artesian well). Experience told me to be prepared so we filled up a couple of 5 gallon buckets when the storm descended and that got us through okay. In fact I was just heading out to the makeshift emergency center at the elementary school to refill the water supply when the power clicked on.
Frequent power outtages may merit purchasing a generator. Of course, as a DIYer I've got all kinds of ideas about retrofitting the snowblower with a power take-off that could drive a belt connected to a...
...we'll go with the 5 gallon buckets for now.
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