I am lost in the morning without a computer (I'm writing this at work and only have two minutes) as we have not had power for 36 hours now. A viscous storm came through Monday night with 60 mph winds, heavy rain (at one time the hourly rate was 4.5 inches), and the power went out for the south half of Whidbey Island. Almost everyone had it back by 9 am but we did not. We have a generator that runs the barn that I turn on so we can have water, but the house is in the back. More on this tomorrow.
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| Another evening without power - our Aladdin Lamp allowing me to read, a wood stove keeping us warm |
Tomorrow is here and the power finally came on at 1 pm on Wednesday, 40 hours this time. We have not had a power outage like this one since the winter of 2006-07, when we lost power for at least 8 hours seven times.
Because our deep freezers are 100% full, and we didn't open the doors during the outage, everything stayed frozen there. I'm worried about the goat milk in the refrigerator so this morning I made Panier with five quarts. Because I heat it to 195 degrees F. for 10 minutes it will be ok.
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| Slicing Panir |
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| Panir just removed from the oven |
Those people that have learned to live without electricity are a hardy bunch. We have a neighbor that has two solar panels that have to be adjusted several times a day to have electricity as they live in the woods. They have been living without running water or electricity for over 30 years! I would like to put solar panels on the pump house roof so when we lose power we would still have water with pressure. A long term goal of mine.
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