This southern boy ended up in rainelle WV this weekend found 15" of snow and it’s still falling.
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Hey Jakob.
The weather man is predicting an inch of snow over night !!!
If this happens more than once every 2-3 years I may have to pack the family up and move south 
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I know the snow is hard if you’re not used to it, but the folks in my home town would give a lot for some moisture right now. We’re from Altadena. 5000 structures burned in the last 48 hours. And that’s just on the east side of Los Angeles.
We have friends and family, and maybe 15,000 other folks that could use your prayers even more than your snow 
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Very sorry to hear
Prayers will be lifted!
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But that m65 cold weather jacket looks like it’s keeping you nice and warm, and in the lords plaid m81 pattern to boot, my favorite!
I have the same jacket for wet and cold weather
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It does good today we helped our hosts cut more fire wood. As long as I was working my flannel over at shirt did pretty well.
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Thanks for all the kind words about my crazy engine build, i promise there going to be a video in the future, when weather admits, i need to lift it outside and mount it on a steady cart. There would be a (maybe) running video, both in English and Swedish 
@Pelletpower ,you’re very welcome if visiting Sweden, i guess i may have some stuff to show 
, and maybe a trip on wood?
@KristijanL good question, how the h*ll i get time for everything? Maybe because i work 25 hours every day? (I work the lunch-hour also), stupid jokes aside, i guess im into a somewhat manic period… 
@giorgio you’re right, i haven’t noticed until now, i haven’t been as active here for a while, going to be back and bore you all with historic gasifiers and stuff…
Some pic’s of todays stuff:
I tinkered some with a pair of old telephones, im going to put one in my basement shop and the other in the living room.
Had to tamper with the innards some, to use regular flashlight batteries for power.
Repair of old blowtorch, needed a new leather cup.
The “engine” waiting for spring…
A chainsaw needed some care, got it’s spark back.
My Volvo has been parked this week, something drained the battery, checked today and no trouble found. Jump-started it and let it run for hours, had to dig it out of the snow, the plow had really pushed some snow against it
A bonus pic: this tuesday, half-way to work… no chainsaw in the car…(wifes car) i felt a little stupid, like i don’t own any chainsaw…
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The nutty professor in action! What did you do? Full gas with your eyes closed? Not your car anyway
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Here is now the third of many stories starting to surface:
I’d on another topic put up, “If it is to be . . . it is up to me.”
Sure. You do have to have intentional made advantages like his non-combustable walls and your-own resources. We, here have been 30+ years metals roofs. Next will be metals outer walls.
This guy doesn’t say where his hoses water came from. Normal city water I expect; him jumping ahead pre-weeting down
But with a gasoline engine driven pump he could have sacrifice the wife’s goldfish/coy pond. Like this guy did:
Can’t stay-in-place and fight all disasters like flows flooding; surge tides, tsunami’s, land slides and avalanches.
But many; with pre-thought out prep’s, you can.
S.U.
And another:
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It was in the news here too. Things are way out of hand. I hope wind is lgoing to stop.
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Hehe, if it had been my car i had just hunker’d down behind the steering wheel, put the pedal to the metal…
In this case i had to go back 5 kilometers, and take another road.
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I forgot in the above post, that i started collect parts for a new project, a screw chipper…
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Remember back a few weeks when SteveU posted his hatchet with the saw blade in the handle. It’s on Amazon. Hint Hint. Not all fuels are liquid or vapor. Some are just calories. Just saying. 
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Funny you mention that Tom, wife got both a small axe, and a small bow-saw in her car, on my recomendations.
But i can’t remember everything, can i? 
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Or maybe you subconsciously remembered what it feels like to have aching cold wetted hands and the snow shaken off down your collar . . . hurts and cold, cold until you work up a sweat.
You were already inside the car and relatively warm and dry . . .
What’s a little use up some of Honey’s gasoline in comparison, eh.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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You are totally right SteveU, it’s exactly how it was.
I have to add, im wearing clogs year around, with that type of shoes i don’t feel comfortable with snow deeper than 1 3/4".
If this had happened on the way home from work is another story, when warm and lively, whats a little snow in the shoes?
(In my car i got a pair of rubber boots, and an extra coat.)
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also here very stormy since sunday…trees have fallen over the street, and one lid of my coal-cool down drums is disappeared by the wind, not to find more…we were too lazy to put always a stone or old tire on it…now that is the bill…especially stones costs nothing here, there are a lot…(a lot of stones and small amount of bread…kurt tucholsky)
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In my case, the fire department is at least 45 minutes away and even if they got to my property, it is so far up a hill that they would not have the hose to reach the buildings. For that reason, I have two 2000 gallon water tanks that supply two hydrants.
Hopefully we will never need this. However, I would not trade my situation for living in California where the fires are. I can’t imagine being surrounded so closely by so many people, most clueless of survival skills and dependent upon outside help. I would rather depend upon my own wits than that of some DEI (Didn’t Earn It) hire.
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Just a reminder to anyone with a greenhouse in a low-snow area… these things can’t handle much snow. Here’s mine yesterday, with about 10 inches:
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Oh No! Hard to fix without more damage I’m thinking.
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