Believe it or not…………..the old professor can write on other stuff than hi normal days writing would imply…….so today I will leave Ukraine and Russia in the rear view mirror and see how many people I can piss off today……
I recall back in the 70’s and 80’s when the survivalist movement was getting all revved up…..I had mixed emotions…..on the one hand I could see their paranoia and on the other I kinda thought they were a bit extreme in the whack-a-doodle sense of the word……..I can see their need to be prepared and to think outside of the box….but the whole black helicopters is a bit……how shall I say this politely…..nonsense.
I will admit that I do have an ample supply of dry beans and rice on hand….but mine is because of those bitches called hurricanes. I have a knowledge of edible plants around my area and always have a week supply of water on hand….and of course the ever present battery supply…..enough stuff that me and mine can live off the grid if necessary…
Speaking of off the grid………
A Florida woman is in a legal fight with the city of Cape Coral for the right to live without municipal water or electricity—off the grid, as she puts it to WBBH-TV. The city just played a trump card, though: It capped the sewer at the house of 50-something Robin Speronis, so now she’ll have to figure out a way to dispose of her waste by other means, reports the News-Press. She vows to do so, and she similarly vows to fight a judge’s order to hook up to the city water supply. “I know how to live off the grid completely and in a sanitary way,” says Speronis, who began living without most city utilities more than a year ago thanks to solar panels and treated rainwater. The city slapped her with a slew of ordinance violations after Fox 4 did a story about her lifestyle, and the case made it to court last week. A judge gave Speronis 30 days to reconnect to city water, noting that she’d been using the sewer system without paying for it. After the hearing, the city capped her sewer, a move she calls “pure evil.” But a spokesperson says the city had no choice: Speronis hasn’t been paying for the service and made clear she had no intention of doing so.
This brings up a whole array of questions….at least for me……Is it mandatory that we have to use city services? If so, is that not a violation of some sort? I see the sewer issue as a legal thingy, but if she had had her own waste elimination system would she still be ordered to reconnect?
Survivalist need to watch this outcome….it could crap all over their living off the grid scenario…….thoughts?
Not sure how she has things set up but storing and using your own rainwater will reduce most of your city water usage and using solar panels connected to the grid will not only cut back the city’s supply of electricity but in moderate and low demand periods a homeowner can actually get a check back from the utility company. Now I wouldn’t want to remove myself from the sewage services but the fact that she thought she had to disconnect entirely from her utilities service company to eliminate her bills is beyond me.
That “individual spirit” of the contemporary TeaParty-types always seems to give them the appearance of being a card or two short of a full deck
For the sake of argument….what if she had had a waste disposal system of her own…would the city still have found a way to force her to reconnect?
“would the city still have found a way to force her to reconnect?
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Would have made a damn interesting civil rights court case.
I agree…,.I think the city would have found just about any pretense to demand she return to the ‘fold’ if you will….
Solution: move out of the city and go feral in peace.
Another good idea….but should we be forced to use city services?
Forced to pay, yes, if you live in the city. If you don’t, then no problem.
The problem we have here is there is not much room left to go ‘survive’ in……everything is either owned or fenced off for some reason….
Do like “W” did and buy up 200,000 acres of rural Uruguay.