Deer Camp has been interesting this year. My son Mike got his first deer ever on Weds. evening. That night it started raining and on Thursday, that rain turned into a heck of an ice storm. Power went off early Thursday and is still off. Friday morning: It's no problem to make coffee, I'll just heat the water on the propane stove and pour it through the coffee maker manually. Wait... I only have whole-bean coffee and the grinder requires electricity. We ended up beating the coffee beans into submission with a meat tenderizer.
It took all four of us three hours to clear the tree damage enough to make the driveway passable. Then I went out in search of a generator. Found a nice Honda locally, but nobody here had the bloody 4-prong 30A plug needed to get 240V from it. 120V will run stuff like the fridge and coffee grinder using extension cords, but not the well pump. OK, I'll drive to Christiansburg, there's both a Lowes and a Home Depot there, one of them will have it for sure, right? Nope; both were sold out of that item. Grrr. On the bright side, Andy got a nice 8-point buck on Friday evening.
Today, I drove to Roanoke is search of the plug. Success! That plus 30' of 10-4 SJ cable to back-feed the breaker panel (with the main turned off, of course!) and we we have running water again. Being able to wash the dishes and flush the toilet is A Good Thing.
