"Dawn" > wrote in message
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> Lynette Hebert wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering how the people in this group that live where it
>> snows alot buy your food for the winter time. Since you are snowed in
>> quite often and cant get out ..
>
> It's not as bad as you think. Even when I lived in the mountains in New
> England, and we got heavy snow, the roads got plowed. As someone else
> said, the plows are out before it gets bad. I think the worst we ever had
> while I was growing up was a 24 hour wait. No, wait there was the blizzard
> of 78 where we got 3 or 4 feet of snow one night and we weren't allowed to
> go out for a couple of days, but I don't recall food ever being an issue,
> and I'm sure we had power.
>
> That being said, every old New England household knows to stock an extra
> cord of wood for the stove, and keep canned goods on the back of the
> shelf. We don't have a fireplace here where I live in Kansas now, so I
> keep a small folding camp stove, and extra fuel, candles, lamps and oil,
> batteries for the radio, etc. Few years ago we had one heck of an ice
> storm that left us with a tree on top of my car and no power for 4 days.
> We managed.
>
> What kind of special things do you do to get through those 100-degree-plus
> summers?
>
>
>
> Dawn
>

Thanks Dawn,
I cant say that I do anything special for the heat. Our electric bills are
sky high .. my brothers in Houston reported electric bills as high as
$800.00 for one month for a brick three bedroom home. Mine isn't quite that
high but when you run air conditioning all day and night it does jump up
there. If you can manage to pay the price for AC in that kind of heat then
you have it made...Right now our temperature is 73 degrees F.. Its been
raining all day long ... under flash flood warnings at this moment ..not to
mention the tornados warnings and watches we have been under all day ..
Thanks again for your reply.