Funny, this made me feel good --- or that I may be paranoid ---
or just not too attached to "modern life" in some ways.
I have solar inverters (2) with 18K watt ( say 14k really collectable ) sending the watts to a 3rd "master hybrid inverter" in my cool basement with 60,000 watts / 1120AH of batteries and the entire house is on the inverter. What do I do when the power goes out ... Nothing ... I get a text on my phone but the house is like a computer on a UPS. Nothing stops or even blinks. The solar has been recharging the batteries to 100% every day with an occasional super cloudy day not quite getting back to 100%. That takes about 1/2 or more or the questions off the list.
Food - we live out a bit but have always made our food from "scratch" I have and keep circulating about 100lb flour 100lb beans 100lb rice and the freezer or canned beef/pork/chicken I buy in bulk and divide and vacuum seal... So with the garden we can generally go a very long time if needed, dairy is the only short shelf and I have dried milk paper products/medicine/batteries etc. stored for emergencies ....
Entertainment - Lots of books real and tablet, movies, and music available on the server in the basement ( still running of course
) and we love a good game of chess.
Heat - propane and a wood gasification boiler+1500gal water storage ( about 1 million BTU's ) either will heat the house just fine with the wood being the cost of labor
Oh and we are , of course, on a well ....
. Tomorrow or Friday I have to go pick the 2 pumpkins because they won't last until October. They are already bright orange so some pumpkin bread is going to be awesome.
