Ice: After Action Report

Fine tuning of prepping is in the works following the major ice storm in East Texas this past week. Today, a discussion of what we got right and what we got wrong.  Very interesting “school” the universe provides! Plus, in our ChartPack, that alternate count of the (Elliott) wave structure from a few weeks back … Read More

Got the office going (Ice storm followup)

Officially most of the outages should be back up today, but not us…at least so far: The good news is the solar is really cranking and sun is in the forecast. Rany lines out and started cutting wood – tons of it to clean up. Food is good, doing the odd post of Kindle is … Read More

Good Jobs But.

We have sun on our solar panels today. The problem we have is the power company is not expected to get the power on until this weekend. Job numbers came in good and maybe too much so.  Given the weak ADP report. No farm month over month was down .5 million which doesn’t make sense … Read More

Friday Jobs Pending

A post Thursday Eve as power may not be back until into weekend we’re told. Made it into town for the post office and diesel.  Never can have too much on hand. Main agenda was to talk to line crews.  As of 11am yest.we had 11-thousand without power. People no nice will depend on powrr…might … Read More

Crappy ice

Power still down. No sun for solar. Fave auto shop out of deep cycle batteries. Power co. Has no due date on power. Red wine and mountain house for dinner looks like. Elaine saidhell yeah to generator. LOl. More when solar kicks in. This is what emo would be like so great exercise. More eventually … Read More

We May be Late

No sign of our power crew hour 12 of outage in the ice storm. Elaine has been reading and kitchen puttering. Mountain House and Soul net for lunch. Will get dIesel tomorrow. But here is the point… If the power doesn’t come up tonight then the Thu! Column may be de ok ayed. Gone camping … Read More

Still Icy…

Just so I could say it was done… We don’t have a crew assigned to our outage yet. Woods alive with crashing of limbs. Maybe we will score a disaster declaration being a tree farm and all. Elaine is reading on her Kindle..me onmine. Nice break from writing but v slow posting via small screen. … Read More

Not Exactly “Survival”

But we did have a big (26″ diameter) tree go down in the yard of the house across the street from us.  Taking down power. Except across is 600-feet out here, street is single lane dirt and oil sand road, and we’ve been on backup systems since: Went out and talked to the lineman who … Read More

Recovering Lost Tech Part 2

A super to the point report today due to being on battery power thanks to the ice storm in East Texas taking out power. It’s a long PDF file in the Focus section, though.  And it’s interesting we delves into “free energy”… Because, coincidentally, in part 2 of our series on recovery of lost technology … Read More