Been Thinking About This Texas Situation...

If you've been living under a rock you've probably been following along with what is going on in Texas currently.

In short, Texas is experiencing some unprecedented levels of extreme weather.

Personally from watching on social media via Facebook, Mewe & other places... Even a lot of the decently prepared people were not ready for this level of disaster.

It is extremely unwise to have at least a weeks worth of food in the house at any given time. A lot of this can be canned, dried, etc. Just incase shit hits the fan and you're stuck at home for 3 days.

However the unforeseen bit was watching how quickly one extreme weather event can cause virtually a complete collapse in society and billions of dollars in damages.

Texas usually gets things like hurricanes, not snow storms.

Without the ability to keep warm, you're as good as toast.

This made me reflect on my own situation and how truly screwed we would be in our own home if power suddenly went out. For the most part my home is off grid except power. And even the rest of the "off-grid" ness relies on power.

Our septic requires power, the well requires power, our deep freezes/fridge require power.

And if that all went out in a single moment - sure, we have a generator.

But what if we suddenly had no access to gasoline for the generator? Then what?

It's really made me do a complete think over of how we are running this acreage and I foresee a lot of changes coming in the near future to truly get this place off grid and not entirely relying on power.

I know this often becomes a problem when it comes to mortgages & insurance cause god forbid you do something the bank doesn't want you to do.

However I would ask you this:

If your power went out for a week and you/your family died because of lack of ability to warm yourself...

What would the bank/insurance companies do?

They would get to keep all the money you paid for your home, clean up your bodies then take the house and sell it to someone else.

They don't nor will they ever give a fuck about you. In fact, they give so little of a fuck about you that if you try to do something without their permission which could jeopardize their ability to make money off of you, not only will they kick you out of your home leaving you homeless...

They will take it and sell it to someone else.

I'm not going to get into how mortgages are fraud today as that's for another time however I would encourage you to ponder on these things.

I know I've sure spent the last few days really pondering.

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