Used to being in frigid weather with no power, so not a big deal
I live in a more rural area, for the past several winters we have commonly lost power in ice storms and it has taken up to a month to get the powerlines back up so we are learning to deal.
Last year for example we had a storm and lost power for 26 straight days. The kicker was the temperatures hovered around -28F with windchills reaching around -78F below alot.
Yes people it IS indeed cold where I live, not that silly pansy cold that some endure, but REAL cold in which, yes your skin can freeze onto cold metal if you keep your gloves off too long doing chores, ( I live in a ranch)
We have 2 huge fireplaces and a coal stove and also 3 backup generators fueled by diesel, gas and one by compressed pellets. We keep about 500 gallons of both gas and diesel on hand to ensure we will not run out during a long spell being off the grid.
We also have a very nice underground root cellar that stays a constant 50F all year round that we keep stocked with foot stuffs, ie we keep about 300 lbs of cleaned wheat for making flour, oats, flax, all the grains etc.
We have alot of root crops that we keep stocked as well
We also keep about 5,000 rounds of ammo for various rifles, pistols, shotguns etc on hand, I have a federal firearms license which allows me to store more ammo then the average person so I take full advantage, do I need all this ammo? not really,but I do make a fair profit selling ammo to tourist hunters who want to attempt to try to hit a deer, unfortunately the vast majority of european and foreign tourists cannot tell a mule deer from a white tail so they have to be babysat as they trudge thru the badlands. Usually they make so much noise they don't even see a deer lol, but I digress.
I would say we store enough food on a consistant basis to be able to last around 6 months without resorting to panic and fear buying.
It is common to be snowed in for several weeks at a time so not many here panic, one must be tough to live where I do.
Those that need to pop off to the shops on a weekly basis usually pansy out and move back to their sissy lives in the cities lol
(zhinka If you don't rescue,don't breed!, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 21:56, 18 replies)

You are Dick Proenneke
AICMFP

Actually I'd quite like to be that self sufficient and have long harboured fantasies about taking of the the boonies....but you know..city boy and all that.
( bane, Sat 16 Jun 2012, 22:49, closed)

alright bear grylls? I bet you're drinking your own piss as I type.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 0:14, closed)

Hi Syncubus.
Shot any nigger-squirrels / pissed the bed / fell down the stairs recently?
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 17 Jun 2012, 3:27, closed)

Goddammit, I just got my fuck-all whore stuck in a lift-assed lift!

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 14:27, closed)

"tourist hunters"?
I enjoyed Hard Target as much as the next man, but you've taken things a bit far.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 6:29, closed)

"Tourist season". You know, like "grouse season".

(EvilTerran rearranged his letters on, Wed 20 Jun 2012, 14:20, closed)

It's Dwight Schrute

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Sun 17 Jun 2012, 6:58, closed)

Burt Gummer
Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! Underground... God damn monsters.
(resistanceisfutile, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 8:47, closed)

Hah!
Broke into the wrong godammed basement, didn'tja?!?!?!
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Tue 19 Jun 2012, 4:07, closed)

I have to say...
... I'm not sure that I could be fucked living like that.
( Ken Oath, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 12:31, closed)

Neither could I, but then I was born 20 miles south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Snow? What's that?

(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 13:15, closed)

When I read this, I thought, oh, he keeps alots in his cellar.

( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 12:33, closed)

Including the odd daughter-wife?

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 18 Jun 2012, 6:33, closed)

Although it sounds nice, I would miss fibreoptic internet.
(tyrellsOwl, Sun 17 Jun 2012, 13:04, closed)

Tonton farmer?

(technocore, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 3:19, closed)

Gun-toting internet hardmen
kinda make me want to befriend the zombies.
:/
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 18 Jun 2012, 9:30, closed)

Are you an Eskimo?
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 13:57, closed)

Nice to meet you, Herschel.
(Robotnik, Mon 18 Jun 2012, 15:23, closed)