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"In a world where people call 911 when their order isn't right at McDonald's, well, this kind of behavior is why there are projections of a 90%+ die off in the event of a significant disaster."
We may be the land of fruits and nuts, but that lady isn't one of ours.
In a long term outage, we're toast. You're talking about 39M people that already look out for numero uno in place where it doesn't rain for 9 months of the year.
We may be the land of fruits and nuts, but that lady isn't one of ours.
In a long term outage, we're toast. You're talking about 39M people that already look out for numero uno in place where it doesn't rain for 9 months of the year.
She's a perfect member of your society. She worries about her favorite fast food—not fire suppression. There are currently operable systems. However, I seem to be the only one here who is thinking about it or—heaven forbid—doing something about it. People in Maine have little to worry about, but plenty of others, particularly residents of the dry western states, do. People love to prepare for the most unlikely situations but never for common occurrences. They know that the government will save them from those—or at least give it a try.
Go ahead....try it. Try moving after you have a good job, a house, investments, family and kids settled in school, friends, maybe a business etc. see how easy it is to just pack up and move. It’s easy to say just move. For me to move it would literally cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions, taxes and other costs if I just up and moved. Forget losing a great well paying job, great medical coverage which my wife needs, retirement etc. It’s not as easy as just move.
The only time moving is easy is if all your earthly possessions fit inside a vehicle and you have a McJob.
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Originally Posted by terracore
California passed a law that all new construction has to include solar panels. The irony is that the vast majority of people have grid tie systems which means their solar-equipped homes have zero electricity when the grid is down.
Go ahead....try it. Try moving after you have a good job, a house, investments, family and kids settled in school, friends, maybe a business etc. see how easy it is to just pack up and move. It’s easy to say just move. For me to move it would literally cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions, taxes and other costs if I just up and moved. Forget losing a great well paying job, great medical coverage which my wife needs, retirement etc. It’s not as easy as just move.
The only time moving is easy is if all your earthly possessions fit inside a vehicle and you have a McJob.
Easily remedied with a back up supply like a Tesla powerwall or equivalent.
I have done it. Got sick of hurricanes and the situation in south Florida and left. One of the smartest moves I've made - and I've made many.
Medical coverage though, I completely understand. There is a national failure on that which goes beyond the topics acceptable for this forum.
I moved too.
I left the security of a high paying job with full benefits, bought a small ranch. I retired but I'm far from Medicare age or drawing my full retirement pension.
So I found a job for pocket money, it also has full benefits even though the wages aren't great, the area I moved to is a much, MUCH cheaper place to live. Between the money from my investments, income from ranch production and the new job, I'm in better shape cashwise than I was working for higher wages.
It can be done, but it takes some work and some planning.
Definitely ironic... Couldn't you install some sort of transfer switch on a grid tie system to make it work when the grid is down? Granted you wouldn't have batteries, but while the sun is shining? Anyways a grid tie system is dumb IMO, go big or go home .
I would assume you could. My house and my next door neighbor have switches to remove us from the grid if there's a power outage and we want to run the generators. Otherwise the generator powers the whole neighborhood.
Anyone that has a whole-house generator has to remove themselves from the grid before powering on the generator.
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