{"id":1025,"date":"2007-11-03T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-illest-weatherman-in-the-biz\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T00:51:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T04:51:45","slug":"the-illest-weatherman-in-the-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-illest-weatherman-in-the-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The illest weatherman in the biz&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won&#8217;t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don&#8217;t lose power&#8211;even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km\/h winds (what the locals would refer to as &#8220;a stiff off-shore breeze&#8221;) rather than the 165km\/h ones (&#8220;a real blow&#8221;) that had been predicted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Move deck furniture into sheltered corner, where nothing can move unless everything moves<\/li>\n<li>Move lawn furniture into sheltered corner under deck<\/li>\n<li>Fill bathtub with water for flushing, should power outage happen (being on a well means you need power to have water)<\/li>\n<li>Fill barbecue tank so that we can cook if power goes out<\/li>\n<li>Grocery store visit to get lots of fruit, canned goods, etc, and nothing that requires fridge or freezer. Also get some bottled water.<\/li>\n<li>Plug in the battery powered inverter (thanks Ralph!)<\/li>\n<li>Check that we still have lots of candles (we do)<\/li>\n<li>Find flashlights and check battery status (LED flashlights last forever!)<\/li>\n<li>Make sure laundry is all done and dishwasher run in case we lose power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9PM and we still have power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Well, we did the whole checklist of simple preparations today, so hopefully the Umbrella Theory will kick in and the storm won&#8217;t cause any serious effects. Although I will honestly be severely shocked if we don&#8217;t lose power&#8211;even though the storm appears to have shifted slightly westward, meaning we might only get 100km\/h winds (what the locals would refer to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-illest-weatherman-in-the-biz\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[37,36,35,38],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-i-hate-nova-scotia-power","tag-noel","tag-storm","tag-weather","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-gx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}