I'm extremely interested in going off-grid, at least as much as possible within my budget. But I didn't mean to go off-grid all of a sudden yesterday afternoon!
We had severe storms pass through our area. Straight line winds of up to 60 mph plus a couple of small tornadoes were spawned from the storms. As a result, many power lines are down and transformers blown, so the power company is working tirelessly to restore the power to the over 40,000 customers who lost it. We were one of those 40,000.
I've been making the best of it by using coal oil lamps, a flashlight that can be recharged using the inverter in my truck, and using some of the 10 or so gallons of water I have stored under my bed. See, without power the well doesn't pump so we are also without water at the time of this writing.
I catch water in buckets when it rains anyway, just in case I need it. Well, I've needed it for the toilet so I'm glad I was doing what Son thought was "weird".
I'm writing this at home on my laptop using a program called Windows LiveWriter. I'll upload it later but it will be ready to go when I get to a wifi hotspot in Town.
