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Learning Survival from Recent Events: What Did You Learn from the 2014 Snowpocalypse?
As the weather begins to heat up again and the snow begins to melt away, it seems like a good time to take stock of the lessons learned from your time surviving the recent “Snowpocalypse”. Were your preparations sufficient, and did you notice any benefit from them? Was there anything you wish you had on hand or perhaps a tool you wish you knew how to use better? The best time to learn from an event is while your memories are still fresh, so let’s dive in!
A few personal examples to help you out
Since it’s hard to generalize what you may have experienced out there, I’ll share a few examples of problems and benefits I noticed while I was hunkered down and surviving this arctic mess. Try to apply this sort of mentality to your own experiences!
- I was not in proper shape for this. I had to trudge through snow drifts up to my hips in order to get out and feed my animals in sub-zero weather. As such, I was bundled up and toasty warm for the most part, but all that extra weight and the extra effort of walking through snow tired me out rapidly. I was walking for under 10 minutes but I felt like I had been doing a full workout for an hour! I was even sore the day after, just as if I had been working hard for hours. Although there is only so much anyone can do to overcome the sheer weight and difficulty in walking through snow drifts, there is definite room for improvement in my physical abilities.
Forget the bread, milk and eggs: I was thankful to have a few boxes of Sweet Tarts tucked away to add some zest to the daily routine.
- I was definitely thankful for my food and drink stocks. Although I ran low on my favorite morning glass of milk (no dairy animals at this time!) otherwise I was satisfied with the food I had available to eat for multiple days without having the chance to visit even a local convenience store. Fresh home-baked bread, plenty of stockpiled fruit juice, and even a few comfort foods made the time stuck inside my home bearable.
- I was thankful to have access to the proper digging tools to get out! My driveway is a long, hilly climb down with plenty of places for 4-5 foot snow drifts, so I was thankful to have a tractor to help dig me out in order to connect with the rest of the world. And when even the tractor got bogged down, I was equally thankful to have some quality snow shovels at hand to free it!
- The wood stove was a major blessing. Although I never lost power, it was reassuring to know that if my furnace shut down I had a stove to keep the house good and warm even when the temperature went down below -20. Click here to read the full article on All Self Sustained
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