https://youtu.be/EaiwxDUY9ho if you keep your lithium batteries inside a container or insulated box you don’t have to worry about them getting too cold to charge.

Do you have a paper map of your area in your car? What if you had to ditch your car and return home on foot? Have you discussed a path with your spouse in case they were to come looking for you?

https://youtube.com/shorts/tuXmOyEiOmg?feature=share how are your self defense skills?

Good idea here. Carrying this forward… do you know what’s quieter than a generator? A solar powered inverter.

https://youtu.be/j8V3EaYV8sE

Here’s a neat feature of the Sol-Ark inverter… it can back feed the grid. Growatt inverters do not interact with the grid but they can “fall over” to grid if your batteries die. Sol-Ark can actually run your meter backwards. But what if your power company doesn’t buy back excess power? Or they shoehorn you into a crappy deal? In California they will buy back power but if you have a net-meter agreement they will always sell power to you at peak rates. So what if there was a way to use a grid interactive inverter that made just enough power to not export any? If you install a Sol Ark with some current sensing transformers on the main lines feeding your panel box, it will measure and make just enough power to not run your meter backwards. This allows you to have solar run your entire house with a grid backup. If you need more power at any given moment than sol ark can provide your power will come from the grid.

Additionally, if the grid does go down, the sol ark will separate from the grid and feed only things that are downstream of it such as a few lights or your fridge.

Put another way… a sol ark can run your whole house from solar without modifying the main panel box and if the grid goes down and switch to running critical loads only.

Food for thought.

Just FYI ladies and gentlemen, that does NOT mean the channel will get deleted. The owner is alive and well. Just has forgotten his login info.

Glad to have all of you in the following and in the chat(s).

Due to confusion and retardation in the comments, to reiterate, the channel will not be deleted due to active admins that continue to post on the channel.

I am now owner of a channel that the owner disappeared and his account was auto deleted. Over time, the ownership was given to me automatically. The same thing will happen to OTG. Either me or another admin will automatically be assigned ownership over the next few months. Nothing will change in posting or otherwise.

In the case of no admins or inactive admins, the channel would face deletion. That is obviously not going to be the case here.

I'm going to bring up a retardation topic we discussed a few months ago. There are a lot of new people here so I think it's worth hashing out again.
Have you done a security check on your property? Take a walk around at night to see what a hungry wandering person would see. Not just from the street but from the backside or from the non-dominate direction of travel. Don't get tunnel vision standing at your front porch. Approach (pun intended) your property from an outsider's perspective.

Can you see the doors to outbuildings from your house? Maybe you'll be in the barn or workshop when someone breeches the gate... do you have a "reach out and touch someone" device in the barn?

Eariler in the week we talked about noise discipline and generators... what about light discipline?

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South Carolina law permits shooting and or kïlling of someone stealing at night. Read this carefully. YMMV. Now would be a good time to research similar laws in your state. If you find a law that has to do with personal or property protection print it out and keep in your wallet.

SECTION 17-13-20. Additional circumstances when citizens may arrest; means to be used.

A citizen may arrest a person in the nighttime by efficient means as the darkness and the probability of escape render necessary, even if the life of the person should be taken, when the person:

(a) has committed a felony;

(b) has entered a dwelling house without express or implied permission;

(c) has broken or is breaking into an outhouse with a view to plunder;

(d) has in his possession stolen property; or

(e) being under circumstances which raise just suspicion of his design to steal or to commit some felony, flees when he is hailed.

Just a friendly reminder. You should have one of these in your glove box. About 1500 people a year die of hypothermia in the United States. I had a dear friend who froze to death in his broken down car just a few years ago. One of these could have saved his life. They're less than $3 at Walmart in the camping section and about the size of a deck of cards.

It’s been brought up a few times here but… ladies how’s your stock of girl supplies? Have you considered silicone menstrual cups?