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By patsi @ A Working Pantry
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(For those just popping in, this is an imaginary scenario that's part of a class we are doing and not real life.)
I know I said in our last post for this class that there wouldn’t
be any more posts until Monday …
Well …
Surprise! Surprise!
Isn’t that a component of events such as this one!!!
Here you go …
You’re in day 4 of the power grid being down, you hear
something … a humming maybe … all of the sudden your house doesn’t seem as
quiet … you have power!!
You immediately turn on the TV, radio or other device to see
what you can find out. An emergency
broadcast is being made. Basically, the
broadcaster is saying the powers that be are aware of the problem and that the issue
that caused it has been taken care of, but unfortunately, there is no quick fix
as much damage has been done.
However, on a brighter note, starting right now you will
have up to one hour of power and then the power grid will be down again. Until the power grid is fully restored there
will be random power allowances, they just don’t know when, for how long or how
often.
What are you going to do with your ‘up to’ one hour of power? Remember, whatever time of day you read this post is the time of day you are working with … ‘up to’ one hour … go!
Think this through very carefully,
but don’t take too long as your ‘up to’ one hour is ticking away …
She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27
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Load of laundry! It can dry on the clothes line. And use the oven and stove top. Generator isn’t powerful enough to use the stove. Vacuum!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, those are some really good choices, it would be nice to have a nice meal wouldn't it and clean clothes!
DeleteOur genny is still chugging along keeping us comfortable. We don't run it all the time to conserve gas so with one hour of power I would send hubby around the corner to the gas station to fill the empty gas cans. In the meantime I have washed clothes and hug them on my drying racks. Used the quick wash as they were not really dirty just a wee bit smelly. Using quick wash I got two loads done. Too old to go down steps to try to hang clothes so inside dry it is. The weather is still mild which really helps. Suppose to rain later today.
ReplyDeleteGet our sheets in the washer and as many washcloths and towels as will fit. Plug in everything that needs charging. Refill all the water jugs and all the pitchers in the kitchen plus fill up the bathtub for toilet flushing. Grab a quick shower. Cook a quick hot meal if there is still time and boil some water to fill a thermos.
ReplyDeleteWhat a blessing the sound of a running washer would be! I’d plug in my solar generator for a quicker charge, fill my water storage back up. I’d probably be heating some of it to wash with, and put in a thermos for tea later on. Mel in Co. I seem to mention water a lot. I live in a dry climate!
ReplyDeleteIf I used the express load function on my machine I could get 2 loads of clothes washed, and get one load almost dry using the dryer. I would also run the garbage disposal for any tiny bits that had accidentally made its way into it while the power was down.
ReplyDeleteClean the powder room which has no windows. Obviously charge everything that needed charging, and dry my hair with a hairdryer. I would wait until the hour was up to put any laundry on the drying rack though.
We installed a three way generator. It is fueled by propane, gasoline or natural gas. Since we still have natural gas, that’s what we’ve been using. I would use my hour to wash clothes. Washing takes too much power from the generator, so I’d run a load and then if I had any time left I’d throw clothes in the dryer to get them as dry as possible. I’d need to hang them to dry the rest of the way since we live in a very rainy region.
ReplyDeleteRead this at 11pm haha, I would charge phones, lamps etc do some washing of essentials and boil some eggs and cook some food for the next day. Try to find out some news on the computer. Make some flatbreads and fill the thermoses with hot water
ReplyDeleteLaundry Showers Refill all empty water containers Use the well as much as possible Text family to see if they need help use oven keep freezers closed as much as possible so think what we would need and fill cooler with food and ice jugs or bags of ice We are a couple so we would divide and conquer
ReplyDeleteVery quick showers all around, throw in a load of laundry, top up water supplies, check emails and recharge mobile phones etc. If time allows I would phone my daughter who lives in another part of the country to check that she is ok while there is power to my landline and my mobile is on charge. I can put the phone on speaker so that I can carry on doing things while talking with her. That sounds like an awful lot to do in one hour, but there are 3 of us, so we could easily split the tasks between us.
ReplyDelete1. Get 2 loads of laundry done -- one load of lights (including underwear and shirts) and one load of darks (including jeans) -- wash cycle is 25 mins. I can line dry on a rack on the deck and/or in the bathroom. 2. Fill all large pots with water and put them on the "power" burner to boil / sanitize any "germs" due to low water pressure. Do as many pots of water as possible, after moving sterile water to pitchers with lids. 3. Flush and clean all toilets, to rid the bathroom of as many germs as possible. 3. Check items in freezer and remove what's thawed too much to be re-frozen. 4. Make a full pot of coffee (or 2, putting 1st pot into a pitcher or thermos), so I can simply re-heat "good" coffee on the grill, if power goes off again. If time allowed, I'd probably take a quick shower (water would not be hot in an hour's time), using an antibacterial soap, and wash my hair. I can get email and internet on my phone, so I would NOT get online; too easy for me to get sucked down a rabbit hole searching for what's going on and causing this power grid failure.
ReplyDeletei would turn the water heater back on so it would fill up again, since we used the 50 gallons or so that was in it for drinking and such. then turn it off again so it would not burn up the elements. flush and clea n all toilets refill all water jugs and tubs for flushing. check news on tv. really use the shower with the plug in to save the water for flushing later. check on freezer, maybe its still cold and this will cool it again. bonnie in pa.
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