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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 14:50:50 GMT
I'd like to travel to the time of Jesus, at the risk of being stoned.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 6, 2020 15:37:10 GMT
With my luck, I'd be stuck. There's a reason my father used to call me the luckiest unlucky SOB her ever knew.
On the exotic part of living without electricity and running water, unless you're in a climate that remains fairly stable around 72 F, it gets tedious in a hurry.
In a building without insulation or thermal mass it's cold inside when it's cold outside just as it's hot inside when it's hot outside.
Unless you're food is dried or otherwise preserved it spoils quickly if you don't eat it all at once.
Hauling water home is a pain if you don't have a well, and wells tend to be problematic as disease does flow with water.
Then there's the joy of outhouses in the summer, what a 'fragrant' aroma. Which reminds me, several years before WWII one of my paternal uncles got bit by a black widow after he took a seat in the family outhouse. Back before antibiotics and anti-venoms were in common use it almost killed him.
All that said, some future historian will likely look back on this era as incredibly primitive and full of hardship.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 18:36:50 GMT
Cameron, you just turned exotic into a pure nightmare. I'll stick to electric heating and a fridge, and running water. It's hard to believe that you actually experience that. Mind you, in many countries they are living that right now.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2020 18:38:18 GMT
That is so funny. I accidentally liked my own post -- and it let me.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 6, 2020 19:40:48 GMT
It's been many years since I lived it daily, but I haven't forgotten. Camping I enjoy, just not perpetually.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 0:27:31 GMT
I've been persuaded to go camping and even pretended to like it. It's like going back 200 years. No washing machines, no hot baths and cooking over a fire. Oh, and 1000 mosquito bites.
All in all, if there's an apocalypse, I'm hanging out with you.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 4:12:01 GMT
Chuckle button needed.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 9:50:21 GMT
Indeed. And an Agree button.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 7, 2020 11:52:39 GMT
I've done the tent thing in all seasons. As long as you have the right gear it's enjoyable enough. Try a tent with drizzle turning to sleet turning to snow and a low of 19 F [which is better than -16 F], fun times.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 14:43:16 GMT
Were you in the army? Is that how you ended up in that tent? Don't answer if it's private.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 7, 2020 14:54:41 GMT
The tent with drizzle turning to sleet turning to snow and a low of 19 F was a camping weekend with my [at the time] future wife. She grew up with camping trips and wanted to see if I actually knew how to camp or if for me it was a fair weather thing. Since she grew up at an elevation of 5,000 ft she wasn't prepared for how it can go from pleasant to nasty in the Carolinas [or Texas for that matter]. Our tent stayed dry even if moisture from our exhaled breath condensed and froze in the vent at the tent's top. The camp host was smiling when he saw us the following morning, as he thought we'd freeze to death even after I told him I knew how to deal with the weather.
As for the Army, I turned down a position and all I've been is a tourist.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 7, 2020 19:57:37 GMT
I've been persuaded to go camping and even pretended to like it. It's like going back 200 years. No washing machines, no hot baths and cooking over a fire. Oh, and 1000 mosquito bites. All in all, if there's an apocalypse, I'm hanging out with you. On the apocalypse thing, given time we'll have a wind generator and storage batteries to go with the solar. A deep well [the only kind you can depend on around here] might take longer, as that's a larger investment.
We like renewable energy because it cuts down on fossil fuels, and during a power outage [which happens here on a regular basis] if you have storage batteries plus solar and /or wind you have power.
On the well, we live higher than the closest water supply tower [we can see the top from the front porch] , meaning low water pressure.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2020 21:53:47 GMT
Oh my. My instincts were right. My car heater/fan died definitively this week. Just ordered one from amazon.ca for 31. Would have been hundreds to replace it in the middle of winter. Now, all this apocalypse talk, I'm going to stop it; words have power.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Jan 7, 2020 23:14:05 GMT
As a spokesperson for NOAA in the US said, if you're prepared for a zombiepocalypse [which won't happen] you're prepared for most of what nature may throw at you.
Me, I'd like to have AC when it's hot or heat when it's cold and the power is out as well as the chance to take a shower at home.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2020 10:54:04 GMT
After 9 seasons of The Walking Dead, I'm not even afraid of Zombies.
I still can't make a fire. And AC and heat are great. It's a wave of heat slapping you in the face when you leave the house in the summer. In the winter you die without heat. I do not know how our ancestor's did it.
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