You've obviously not had to deal with 'sierra cement'. A bulldozer works.<br><br><span style="font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif;"><br><br></span><span id="signature"><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;color: #999999;">-- Sent from my Palm Prē</div><br></span><span style="color:navy; font-family:Prelude, Verdana, san-serif; "><hr align="left" style="width:75%">Mark Cheavens wrote:<br><br>Snow blowers work well for moving snow. Much easier.
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<br>- As do backup generators for backup power!
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<br>Sorry,
<br>It had to be said.
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<br>Mark
<br>KC5EVE
<br>At 11:29 PM 2/7/2010, you wrote:
<br>>Stupidest Emergecny power Idea for me ever...
<br>>
<br>>With 2'-3' snow forcast, I parked my Prius down at the street end of
<br>>my driveway so it would be easy to get out. Went inside.. after
<br>>suffering through a few hours of my wife's media induced hand
<br>>wringing and hysteria over possible loss of power and other end of
<br>>the world scenarios, I assured her that the Prius would power the
<br>>house - no problem...
<br>>See: www.aprs.org/alternative-energy.html
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<br>>To show I was doing everything possible, I even went out to pre-run
<br>>the extension cord from the Prius to the house breaker
<br>>box... Looking for the right cord, I could either use a 50' cord
<br>>that was too short or a 100 foot one that was too long.
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<br>>Thinking I didn't want to give up any voltage drop... I came up with
<br>>the IDEA of backing the Prius right up to the garage where the
<br>>breaker panel is, and that way my 12' male-to-male "emergency power"
<br>>cord could connect the two directly without needing any long
<br>>cords... The wife would see that I had done SOMETHING in
<br>>preparation, And it would make a nice picture if we used it.
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<br>>Wind blew, snow flew... power remained for me and you..
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<br>>...
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<br>>And then for the next 18 hours I got to shovel a 100' long by 8'
<br>>wide by 3' deep driveway to get the Prius out....
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<br>>I think I'll go with the 100' #12 cord next time instead.
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<br>>As backgroud, the second laughable tale was the euphoric mood we
<br>>were in as we prepared for the snow... firewood, DVD movies, milk,
<br>>snacks, chips, popcorn, toilet paper.... As two people with
<br>>overburdened busy lives we were looking forward to 3 days straight
<br>>at home with NO OTHER DEMANDS. We were young again...
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<br>>Then spent all 3 days digging out (100' of driveway, plus the
<br>>culdesac), protecting an acre of plants from breaking under the
<br>>snow, chain-sawing broken limbs across access routes, continuously
<br>>cleaning and moping up the water tracked in on every excursion,
<br>>removing snow from over 200sqft of solar panels, making contraptions
<br>>to get the snow off the roof in preparation for the next 5" of snow
<br>>forcast in 2 days, etc, etc...
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<br>>Then collapsing in exhaustion..
<br>>
<br>>Bob, WB4APR
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