There’s a little store in the village down the road that sells a little of everything. You know the sort of place. They have everything from gas, to pizza, to hunting licenses. I had a 20 pound propane bottle in need of filling. They do that too. It’s much more economical to get a tank refilled then to do a tank swap. Not only that, the swap tanks are usually a bit on the light side and cost more too.
There was young man working there who’d I’d never seen before. Turns out it was the owner’s son. The guy used to live in Florida but his place was on the St. John’s River. Both hurricanes flooded him out and there’s nothing left. Now he’s here in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire. He’s probably safe from hurricanes for a bit.
He’s not the first person to move up here after a hurricane. When Katrina wiped out New Orleans we got a bunch of new people. One guy said he moved up north as it was about as far away from the Gulf as he could get.
We get some nasty weather, but I’ll take a blizzard over a hurricane any day. When southerners move north to avoid weather you know there’s a issue.
-Sixbears
Been here 24 years now. Been within twenty miles of the eye of several cat three storms .
ReplyDeleteThe last two had the eye direct hits, though only a one when those came.
Our house has withstood all of them just fine.
Why ? BECAUSE WE'RE NOT DIRECTLY ON THE STUPID BEACH !!! and back away a half mile or so...
Even so , yup I'll definitely take our little old whirlwind girls , over any place that has blizzards !
Here you can survive just fine without the grid. You most certainly will not live very long without the grid in blizzard country.
Maybe as a young healthy person you might,..
Why do you think this place is a magnet for blue haired folks lol
Turns out being on a river in FL isn't that great either. I'll still take the blizzard over the hurricane. As long as you can stay warm without the grid it's fine. My solar electric system provides enough for the essentials -like the well pump.
DeleteOf course, I might get my fill of winter and do the snowbird thing, so it's not like I'm against being warm.
Around here a little snow attached to Hurricane force winds is called a, "Nor Easter" right?
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