Just Sharing This Off Air

[The Rascals]

Taking down the OFC1200 as Hurricane Ophelia is coming straight at us here in the South of Ireland and I am 300ft above sea level facing south.
So I will be off air for a few days and will try to align it better than I did previously when it goes back up

 

[Analoguesat]

Better safe than sorry - hope you get away with no damage.

We are outside the main blast zone so my dishes will have to take their chances. Most of them will be coming down in the next couple of weeks anyway so its no loss if one or two end up awry

 

[Channel Hopper]

Anyone else in the predicted path is advised to tie the heaviest parts of the equipment to something that won't move, as long as it doesn't put you at risk.

This thread should be used for others to report their tales of woe over the next couple of days.

 

[The Rascals]

Hi Folks
Just had my electricty restored since being off from last Monday morning and I am only 3 miles from a major town, at the high of Ophelia there was about 330,000 houses without electricity. Since Monday had no power, no mobile coverage, and no water (we have our own well with a pump hence no water) it was like going back to the 50's or 60's I presume, and there is only so many card games you can play, but it was great to talk, go to the cinema etc (after 29 years of marriage celebrated this week) without electronic gizmo's.
We had no damage done, but many trees down across our road, so we were house bound until it was save to power up the chainsaw, regrettably 3 people lost their lives in this ex hurricane.
Glad I took down the OFC1200 as the wind reached 145Kph at my house and 186Kph at the Fastnet Rock Lighthouse.
As we had to get bottled water from the shops with many sold out of same, I could appreciate what the people in Puerto Rico are putting up with, but a hundred times worse.
We realized that this so call "perfect" water, that millions drink around the world every day, and taste like crap compared to the water from our well, it also left one hell of a scum on the bottom of pot when we boiled it, so the "perfect" water is not that perfect after all.
It will be late in the week before I can make an attempt to put back up the OFC1200 as we just finished with storm Brian today, a pussycat compared to Ophelia, also there is a massive backlog of work outstanding that I could not get to in the last week.
The Rascals

 

[Analoguesat]

Welcome back to the 21st century!

I shall miss our farm well water when we move - its absolutely beautiful stuff. Straight out the ground with no treatment or additions. I took a bottle of it in to work as one of the chaps didnt believe my description of how wonderful it was - he soon changed his tune when he tasted it

 

[Topper]

Welcome back to the 21st century!

I shall miss our farm well water when we move - its absolutely beautiful stuff. Straight out the ground with no treatment or additions. I took a bottle of it in to work as one of the chaps didnt believe my description of how wonderful it was - he soon changed his tune when he tasted it

The minute quantities of filtered sheep piss and acid rain make all the difference

 

[The Rascals]

The minute quantities of filtered sheep piss and acid rain make all the difference

The difference is the sheep piss and acid rain is filtered naturally by mother nature, not by multinational inc with chemicals taught up by extremely intelligent genius, whose job is to make it taste like well water.
People see "natural colour and flavourings" on a product, I explained that some of these (if not all) "natural colour and flavouring's" are created artificially. (sorry gone off topic in one of my many rants)
Next item on my purchase list will be a generator so that the next big wind I will be drinking proper water.
Anybody any experience what generator should I purchase, must be able to power a water pump, oil boiler, circulating pump, freezer and of course lights and tv.

 

[2cvbloke]

Next item on my purchase list will be a generator so that the next big wind I will be drinking proper water.
Anybody any experience what generator should I purchase, must be able to power a water pump, oil boiler, circulating pump, freezer and of course lights and tv.

Total up what all those devices use power-wise, as there's many different power outputs of generators to suit different situations. The main thing though is to look at generators with an AVR, the "brushless" type generators are pants for anything other than resistive loads (lightbulbs & heaters), and struggling to keep up with inductive loads (transformers & motors), also try to avoid "Digital" Inverter generators, while they seem great on paper (providing true sine-wave output, running the engine at varying revs based on load for economy, etc.), the inverters fail a bit to easily and cost more than the generator is worth to repair...

Also consider getting a manual changeover switch and generator feed fitted to your distribution board so you don't have to run extensions here, there and everywhere, this would need to be fitted by a qualified electrician though as you really don't want to accidentally back-feed to the grid and fry some poor linesman trying to restore power...

 

[Channel Hopper]

The minute quantities of filtered sheep piss and acid rain make all the difference

Arrrrr!

 

[Topper]

The difference is the sheep piss and acid rain is filtered naturally by mother nature, not by multinational inc with chemicals taught up by extremely intelligent genius, whose job is to make it taste like well water.

Yes but mother nature does not recognise cryptosporidium as being a problem to humans so being a single celled organism does not get filtered out by mother nature, as we in Lancashire unfortunately discovered two years ago

 

[The Rascals]

Yes but mother nature does not recognise cryptosporidium as being a problem to humans

Humans created all this crap from sprays, dusting etc, I know there is natural dangers to humans like Radon Gas but other humans are a bigger danger to our species than nature.
As the saying goes "nature can do without us but we cannot do without nature" if the reduction in bee's continue there will be famine in Europe by the mid 2030's - 40's, that's just 20 years away

 

[Topper]

Humans created all this crap from sprays, dusting etc, I know there is natural dangers to humans like Radon Gas but other humans are a bigger danger to our species than nature.
As the saying goes "nature can do without us but we cannot do without nature" if the reduction in bee's continue there will be famine in Europe by the mid 2030's - 40's, that's just 20 years away

Totally agree about bees, where in such cases humans are to blame, humans did not create cryptosporidium

 

[Channel Hopper]

Totally agree about bees, where in such cases humans are to blame, humans did not create cryptosporidium

Maybe not, but its presence in large enough numbers to make standard water treatment ineffective is down to certain individuals' lifestyle and hygiene practises.

 

[dxhound2003]

Despite us all being poisoned by treated water and white bread and all the other evils of the modern world, people in developed countries are managing to survive for longer and longer. These days we can expect to live 10 years longer than our counterparts in 1960.

Put your tap water in the fridge and it will taste better than at room temperature.

 

[Lazarus]

True enough, but the advantages will be short-term as our massive over-population leads to food shortages, war, and untreatable disease.

 

[dxhound2003]

The world was a far more dangerous place for humans when the population was well under one billion. The Black Death wiped out 60% of the population of Europe. Ancient wars took out significant proportions of the world population.

The steep rise in population since the Industrial Revolution has been accompanied by a steep rise in life expectancy in the developed world. Doom merchants have been predicting a catastrophe from overpopulation for a long time.

In 1779, Thomas Malthus wrote:

Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race. The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation. They are the precursors in the great army of destruction, and often finish the dreadful work themselves. But should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence, and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and tens of thousands. Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world. (world population 1780 under one billion).

The Population Bomb is a best-selling book written by Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne Ehrlich (who was uncredited), in 1968. It warned of mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation, as well as other major societal upheavals, and advocated immediate action to limit population growth. Fears of a "population explosion" were widespread in the 1950s and 1960s, but the book and its author brought the idea to an even wider audience. (world population 1968 3.5 billion).

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, but this was before Trump.

 

[Channel Hopper]

 

[The Rascals]

Despite us all being poisoned by treated water and white bread and all the other evils of the modern world, people in developed countries are managing to survive for longer and longer. These days we can expect to live 10 years longer than our counterparts in 1960.

But those extra 10 years you spend on a hospital trolley waiting to get seen by a specialist and get a bed

 

[Channel Hopper]

Trolleys can be comfortable.