Okies are a funny bunch of people or maybe it is just people in general are funny.
The predictions are for snow and ice for the next couple of days and you would think we are going to be snowed in for weeks the way people are acting. Levi and Christi went to Walmart earlier today and he said it was a mad house, the shelves were almost bare and people were in panic mode. I had to run over to Allen this afternoon to pick up a prescription and stopped at the store to get pop and it was the same way.. people lined up with baskets full. I bet Eric (store owner) loves this.
I do it differently. I mean this is Oklahoma and it is good to be prepared for anything.
It used to be that every time it rained our electricity went off, it is better now since they ran new lines about 10 years ago. But, every fall I stock up on a few things like canned soups, canned meat (chicken and tuna), make sure the medicine cabinet is well stocked, a few gallons of water in the pantry, batteries, candles, etc. We have gas heat, gas off of our oil wells, but the gas pressure is pretty unreliable. When it gets really, really cold (of course when you need it most) the pressure goes way down and it is hard to keep the stoves lit. So, several years ago we put a big wood stove in our house as back up. My cookstove is electric but I can cook on either the wood stove or the top of the gas heater. I've done it several times when we needed me to.
One year during an ice storm Charlie and Melissa and her three boys were living here in a house that only had electric heat when the electric went off they came to stay with us. We camped out in the living room, played games, and talked, cooked on the woodstove and had a ball. After 3 days it got kind of old and Mark hooked up one of our generators so we could watch tv. That year the electric was off for 5 days.
Now we have two generators so we can run pretty much everything if we have to.
No one has to drive anywhere and we are pretty much ready for whatever happens.
Maybe we will get lucky and it will stay north of us.
3 comments:
Nope...people here in PA are crazy like that too! Stay warm and enjoy being snowed in with family :)
People in WA are nuts like that, too. :) And none of us can drive in more than a half an inch of snow so there are accidents galore, too.
Bundle up and enjoy it if you can at all!
Yep, like Jen said, people here are like that too. David and I are never prepared..I wish we were better at being prepared. I should work on that.
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