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<A title=kc6ete@gmail.com href="mailto:kc6ete@gmail.com">david Vanhorn</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 08, 2010 11:02
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [aprssig] 3' snow emergency
dumb idea...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>You've obviously not had to deal with 'sierra cement'. A
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Mark Cheavens wrote:<BR><BR>Snow blowers work well for moving snow. Much
easier. <BR><BR>- As do backup generators for backup power! <BR><BR>Sorry,
<BR>It had to be said. <BR><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 <BR>> <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. <BR>> <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. <BR>> <BR>>Wind blew, snow flew... power remained for me and you..
<BR>> <BR>>... <BR>> <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.... <BR>> <BR>>I think I'll go with the 100' #12 cord next time
instead. <BR>> <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...
<BR>> <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... <BR>> <BR>>Then collapsing in
exhaustion.. <BR>> <BR>>Bob, WB4APR <BR>>
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