XPost: talk.politics.guns, sci.energy   
   From: JW@jw.com   
      
   On 1/8/2024 7:35 PM, cshenk wrote:   
   > Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Just Wondering"  wrote in message   
   >> news:0aZmN.95241$q3F7.60338@fx45.iad...   
   >>   
   >> On 1/8/2024 11:20 AM, cshenk wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> ... I opted to not have battery backup at my place.  Power   
   >>> outages are rare and seldom more than an hour.   
   >>>   
   >> Certainly, until that's no longer true.  It's like saying "I opted   
   >> not to have a fire extinguisher at home.  Home fires are rare and   
   >> are seldom catastrophic."  (snips)   
   >>   
   >> ------------------------------   
   >>   
   >> Covid showed that we should increase our food storage, so I added a   
   >> 12V DC fridge+freezer that runs on solar/battery/grid/generator   
   >> power, an Alpicool T60. Ice and wind storm power outages here have   
   >> lasted over a week.   
   >   
   > Mom was divorced and Dad didn't pay the 51$ child support.  She always   
   > put a bit of shelf stable foods aside, having been raised in the   
   > depression then the WWII years of rationing.  I've always done that   
   > too.  We were fine.  It helped a LOT that I'm a scratch cook.   
   >   
   > She did a fine job raising us 3.  None of us experienced more than a   
   > slight frown if we had to swap a planned dish over lack of supplies   
   > during the covid hoarding.   
   >   
   > The money just wasn't there to go backups but after I pay off the last   
   > of the solar, I'll look at 1 battery to add to it.   
   >   
   OK.  "I don't have it yet because I can't afford it yet"   
   is different from "I opted not to."   
      
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