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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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things learned during the (first?) sacramento blackout of 2023

Sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties around Sacra­men­to are still with­out pow­er as a dead­ly storm hit North­ern Cal­i­for­nia and con­tin­ues to flood streets.”
abc10, 2 Jan­u­ary 2023
 

These are things I learned, and al­ready knew in my at­tempt at “pri­mal” (for us weak hu­mans) sur­vival dur­ing the black­out

1.
That the Mr Heater Bud­dy is spec­tac­u­lar. The Big Bud­dy is even bet­ter. Mr heaters have a oxy­gen de­ple­tion switch that will shut the heater down if oxy­gen lev­els get too low. Quite frankly it would take a very long time in a large space for the air to be­come even re­mote­ly haz­ardous so not to worry.

2.
I’ve known for decades that Cole­man propane lanterns were the bomb!

3.
That my free Cole­man camp­ing grill that I pulled out of the dump­ster was one of the smartest things I’ve ever done.

4.
That it’s not a good idea to grill a steak or make pan­cakes in­doors be­cause of the smoke!!

But I was hun­gry so what the fuck.

5.
That the best thing to have on hand is lots of de­li­cious soups that you can heat up with­out smoke.

6.
French press, of course what else would you use, a stu­pid pour over that takes too long?

7.
That Good­will al­ways pro­vides. 12 large col­umn can­dles for 14 bucks!

8.
That the best item you can get when you have propane heaters and stoves and lights is the re­fill adapter for a 5 gal­lon tank so you can re­fill your 1 lb cans for only a dol­lar each in­stead of $9 each at the store.

9.
That the best thing to do when pow­er goes out is it go for a dri­ve and en­joy the trip, just ex­plor­ing in the love­ly dark.

10.
That the rivers in Sacra­men­to are beau­ti­ful in the dark.

11.
That old­er cars are the best be­cause their cig­a­rette lighters work with­out hav­ing to have the car turned on so you can recharge your phones and no time at all in your car.

12.
That recharge­able LED flash­lights are tru­ly the best.

13.
That I should have brought my LED head­lamp for my shop so I could have read in bed.

14.
Then af­ter dri­ving through Sacra­men­to where half the city is dark, that the oth­er half uses way too much elec­tric­i­ty to light emp­ty build­ings and bill­boards and even streets.

15.
That I can be per­fect­ly con­tent at 66°F, not 68° in my house.

16.
That the only down­side to a de­mand gas wa­ter heater is that it does­n’t have a man­u­al ig­nit­er it uses a piezo­elec­tric in­stead so it’s use­less in a pow­er outage.

18.
That I need to take my portable show­er unit that I used while camp­ing and adapt it to the house for the gar­den hose.

19.
That if I look at a pow­er fail­ure as an ad­ven­ture in­stead of an in­con­ve­nience that I ac­tu­al­ly en­joy it and find hu­mor in it. 

20.
That my own com­pa­ny ain’t so bad af­ter all.

 

—Louis Warfield

Flom­mist Louis Warfield is a fab­ri­ca­tion spe­cial­ist who runs the award-win­ning Rhi­no De­sign Stu­dio, “You dream it, we’ll build it.” Copy­right © 2023 Louis Warfield.

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