Better you than me, lol. Now that I'm older the closest I want to get to camping is in a big RV...too bad I can't afford one.
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Better you than me, lol. Now that I'm older the closest I want to get to camping is in a big RV...too bad I can't afford one.
Forget that! Camping was fun when I was young and Mom and dad did most of the work. I also liked it at girlscout camp. But nowadays I like room sevice and fluffy pillows. AC and elec is a must! After 4 hurricanes, I decided roughing it wasn't nearly as much fun at my age.
Forget that! Camping was fun when I was young and Mom and dad did most of the work. I also liked it at girlscout camp. But nowadays I like room sevice and fluffy pillows. AC and elec is a must! After 4 hurricanes, I decided roughing it wasn't nearly as much fun at my age.
LOL....yep. The most I'll "rough it" is sitting on my patio, glass of iced tea in one hand and PV in the other!
Okay I have to admit that I use an air mattress in my tent now because I can't sleep on the bare ground and still be able to walk in the morning, I don't think I have any joints left that aren't bad. And I do end up doing 90% of the work while everyone else has fun, but still I love it. Just don't make me do it w/o music and a book or I'd be one very horrendous B!+(h.
Forget that! Camping was fun when I was young and Mom and dad did most of the work. I also liked it at girlscout camp. But nowadays I like room sevice and fluffy pillows. AC and elec is a must! After 4 hurricanes, I decided roughing it wasn't nearly as much fun at my age.
I loved camping as a kid and I still do. When the roughing it is voluntary. However, I'm with Marykay on the Hurricanes. It's no fun when your doing it because you have to and there is no other choice. We had a cool front come in the day after IKE hit us last year and that was the only reason it was bearable without the AC.
A tropical storm Claudette hit the panhandle last night and Ana and Bill..Bob what ever are making their way towrd the states.
I don't think Ana will be more then a rainmaker and she is headed my way..but Bill will most likely hit the South Carolina coast..of course being a guy he may get lost and hit Miami or New York!
Time to get out the hurricane kit and check the Ginny!
I don't think Ana will be more then a rainmaker and she is headed my way..but Bill will most likely hit the South Carolina coast..of course being a guy he may get lost and hit Miami or New York!
Time to get out the hurricane kit and check the Ginny!
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Then again, with Bill being a guy he may just get totally lost and end up swimming circles out in the Atlantic until he dissipates.
From your mouth to God's ear Jennee!
I don't mind a few rainmakers..even some wind to clean out the dead stuff in the trees, but when it gets bad enough to blow roofs off and blow down pines..that's going too far!
Mike has the satilite dish people coming this week to replace our cable. I don't know if I will even like it and this time next year it will be more pricey..but at least we will have T.V. when it rains and storms. Cable goes out after the third raindrop!
I don't mind a few rainmakers..even some wind to clean out the dead stuff in the trees, but when it gets bad enough to blow roofs off and blow down pines..that's going too far!
Mike has the satilite dish people coming this week to replace our cable. I don't know if I will even like it and this time next year it will be more pricey..but at least we will have T.V. when it rains and storms. Cable goes out after the third raindrop!
I understand that. I have cable. It's not QUITE as bad here. It at least waits till the 5th raindrop.
Well, folks, you will still experience an occasional outage during a storm. They call it rain fade, and it happens when the clouds are so terribly thick that they interrupt the satellite signal, or at least cut it down to the point where your equipment can't see it.
Here in Oklahoma, we have thunderstorms a lot. And the big storms will cause my satellite signal to fade away... usually for 5 or 10 minutes until the heaviest of it is gone.
A normal rain, no problem, though.
That said, I love my dish, and love the DVR receiver I have with it.
I even have it hooked up online so I can download and watch movies from their online movie-bank. I love being able to pause something I'm watching, even if it is being broadcast live. Lets me answer the phone or something like that, and then pick up where I left off.
I spend way too much money every month on it, but then, vaping, coffee and tv are really my only vices, now that cigs aren't in the picture.
Here in Oklahoma, we have thunderstorms a lot. And the big storms will cause my satellite signal to fade away... usually for 5 or 10 minutes until the heaviest of it is gone.
A normal rain, no problem, though.
That said, I love my dish, and love the DVR receiver I have with it.
I even have it hooked up online so I can download and watch movies from their online movie-bank. I love being able to pause something I'm watching, even if it is being broadcast live. Lets me answer the phone or something like that, and then pick up where I left off.
I spend way too much money every month on it, but then, vaping, coffee and tv are really my only vices, now that cigs aren't in the picture.
I can live with the rain fade..that doesn't sound too bad. But when we had 4 hurricanes back to back..I lost cable for weeks at a time! If I hadn't had my little black and white emergency TV ..we wouldn't have know what the heck was happening. Now of course that TV is a paperweight. They cut the analog (lol) signal off. You have to have the box to make it work. We get count 'em 2 of the ORLANDO TV stations in St. Cloud (with annenta) and one is fuzzy. That little cheapo $19.00 TV ((with short rabbit ears) picked up all the TAMPA Stations just fine. (and one of the Orlando stations). Progress sucks!
Well, I have no idea how it will perform in a hurricane. Maybe some of your neighbors who have a dish can tell you. Here, the storms tend to be the wham-bam-and-gone type.
And, btw, I have one of those paperweights, too. I will probably hook it up to the cable during bad storms, I guess. I have that too, basic cable only, because I use a cable modem for my network. And my little portable analog tv does have a little input jack on the side of it I can use. Cable in my neighborhood tends to be real dependable, because it is all buried. I also have UPSs (uninterruptible power supplies) just everywhere in this house. So I have power for a few essential things for quite a while.
And, btw, I have one of those paperweights, too. I will probably hook it up to the cable during bad storms, I guess. I have that too, basic cable only, because I use a cable modem for my network. And my little portable analog tv does have a little input jack on the side of it I can use. Cable in my neighborhood tends to be real dependable, because it is all buried. I also have UPSs (uninterruptible power supplies) just everywhere in this house. So I have power for a few essential things for quite a while.
The neighbors were watching the news on satilite the whole time!
Don't you love it when everyone comes out of the house to hang on fences or walk down the street after a big storm? We had our neighbors (all 6 of them on our rural street) go from house to house helping to cover roofs or to lend a hand cutting up limbs. We have a pool so they all came over to fill buckets for flushing and for animals water.
Mike took his big chainsaw to the oak tree that fell on the neighbors patio and I picked up as much stuff out of the neighbors yard as I could, her shed blew over and she had all her keepsakes in there. (china mostly)
One lady passed out soda's she had stored in a trashcan filled with ice (Ice was in short supply). A cold drink was a treat!
Don't you love it when everyone comes out of the house to hang on fences or walk down the street after a big storm? We had our neighbors (all 6 of them on our rural street) go from house to house helping to cover roofs or to lend a hand cutting up limbs. We have a pool so they all came over to fill buckets for flushing and for animals water.
Mike took his big chainsaw to the oak tree that fell on the neighbors patio and I picked up as much stuff out of the neighbors yard as I could, her shed blew over and she had all her keepsakes in there. (china mostly)
One lady passed out soda's she had stored in a trashcan filled with ice (Ice was in short supply). A cold drink was a treat!
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And then of course when FEMA finall decides to show up (Days after they say they will) The lines are 5 miles long and the traffic to get there is 10 miles long. I didn't ever go, I just saw it one day when we were out and about after IKE.
Looks like we got a pass on Bill! Thank Goodness! Maine might be in for a few rainy days though. We are getting tons of rain from Ana..but it's just rain, no wind!
We got satilite tosay..it's not bad, but 33 shopping chanels is a bit much! Not one of them sells e-supplies!8-o I hate learning new channels!
We are getting tons of rain from Ana..but it's just rain, no wind!We got satilite tosay..it's not bad, but 33 shopping chanels is a bit much! Not one of them sells e-supplies!8-o I hate learning new channels!
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