OT, Oh Crap, Now We Have An Ice Storm On The Way

[DerbyDad03]

Heat rises. When I have no electricity and need to heat my house with my stove I simply hang out near the ceiling. Toasty!

[The Daring Dufas]

The 80 year old house I'm in has enough air infiltration that I don't worry abut CO. o_O

TDD

[nestork]

Probably the best investment you can make to help protect against power outages is a pair of long underwear and a long sleeve turtle neck t-shirt; both made out of a soft comfortable material like cotton.

[Stormin Mormon]

Consider thanksgiving. All the range top burners going, and bird in the oven. After dinner does anyone LOOK dead? There's your answer.

[Stormin Mormon]

Feb 13, 2014

Western NY. Went to a couple service calls, got home about 5 PM. When I left the house at

7:30 to go to scripture study, the roads were hard pack snow, and traction was poor. One car in the ditch, I saw.

Return home, the hard pack snow is worse, and traction is worse. Nearly tail spun twice, and I was going slow and gentle. Ought have stayed home, safe.

One friend in SC was without power. ============================= ICE STORM! No power, water or heat for 32 hours. Power just came back on, We survived well with guests with portable propane space heaters, generator for occasional water (connected to well), bucket toilet, and propane cookstove (20lb grill bottles). Had food, bottled water, and came through with flying colors. ==============================

[Stormin Mormon]

You're batty.

(Old cabins had a loft, for that same reason.)

[Stormin Mormon]

How does that protect against outages?

[Damning Dumass - Welfare TeaBi]

The people in ditches are either idiots that don't understand the physics of driving in the snow and/or were busy talking/texting on their iphones.

[clare]

Or those whomleft home with vehicles not equipped for the conditions regardless of their skills. In any case, people who should have stayed at home.

[DerbyDad03]

Or those who end in the ditch because of someone else's idiot move.

Yesterday morning I was in the right lane of a three lane exit ramp. All three lanes are used to make a left turn onto the three lane overpass of the highway. I make the same left hand turn from the same right lane 5 days a week. Yesterday, as I was making the turn I was surprised to find that I was so close to the car on my left, the car that I assumed was in the center lane. In reality, it was some idiot that decided to turn the 3 lane road into a 4 lane road. I had to move right to avoid contact and went into the slush along the curb of the overpass.

I kept the control of my vehicle and I may even have contacted the curb. Had it been another situation, like if I had driven into the slush on the shoulder of a highway at a higher speed I might well have gone into a ditch while trying to avoid an accident.

When I see someone in a ditch I don't automatically assume that they or their car couldn't handle the conditions. I've seen enough idiot moves by drivers who either didn't know or didn't care about the chaos they left in their wake.