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I live about 30 miles north of Steve, and it's fierce outside.  Heavy wind, 
rain, and every so often our power threatens to go out.  Probably a tree 
hanging on a power line.  We have a 10,000 watt generator for just such 
occurrences.  It is big enough to power the whole house.  The horses are 
bored to death and just hunkering down to wait out the storm.  Lots of mud 
everywhere, and the creeks are up.  Something killed and ate one of our 
calves within the past few days....either a coyote or a lion.  A lion 
clambered into our daughter's goat pen several weeks ago, broke the neck of 
one goat, but couldn't get it out of the pen.  This fact led a local lion 
"expert" to believe that it was a young lion, without the strength and skill 
to get the goat out of the pen, over a mesh wire fence.  Tracks were 
observed, so there was no doubt about who the culprit was.  Life is 
interesting out here in the country.......

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Shaw" <sshaw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 11:53 AM
Subject: [RC] Storms, generators and living quarters...


> Saturday here in Aptos/Santa Cruz the power was out for 12 hours. It 
> wasn't so bad until it got dark. Then I fired up my Honda 2000 EU that I 
> have for horse camping, etc.  It is so quiet. I had the dish TV and 
> fireplace fan going though not all lights or refridge, and neighbors 
> couldn't figure out why I had power and they didn't. They couldn't hear 
> the generator out back, and this is a close beach subdivision. The Honda 
> EU is about $900 but puts out 2000 watts and I can lift it with one hand. 
> It has extra plugs that you can use to charge a 12 volt battery and plugs 
> that let you link two units together to get 4000 watts if you want.
> Back when we had the earthquake in 89 I hauled my horse trailer with LQ to 
> the house and was able to cook, shower and even enjoy life while everyone 
> else was miserable or concerned without power, water or gas.
> Today is another big storm but with power for now.
> Oh, without power the phone still worked, so I was able to internet and 
> email on battery for many hours.
>
> My horses are at a different area, but Don has not called for help! ... 
> yet.
> Steve Shaw
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