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Post by papaof2 on Oct 7, 2020 9:32:11 GMT -6
The other electric co-op in our county has an outage that involves four meters. Remember that this co-op serves multiple counties? The outage is where three of the counties come together, so they have one meter out in one county, one in the adjacent county and two in the other adjacent county.
These people are probably next door, backdoor or across the street neighbors but their vehicles are registered in different counties, they pay different property tax rates on similar houses and they may have different sales tax rates. Political divisions of areas are so weird - my wife has an ancestor who lived in a different county in four different census reports over nearly 40 years. The person never moved - the county just kept getting divided. There's a great tool for family history research called Ani-Map that can animate the changes to a given location over the years.
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Post by remembergoliad on Oct 16, 2020 8:41:13 GMT -6
Living on the edge of a county, especially in an area where the land is not crisscrossed with public roads, can get amusing. From here, the nearest place to get a gallon of gasoline is in the next county. Heck, our county seat is three counties away! We live on a dead end county road that pokes about 3/4 mile into the county. Only access is down a road maintained by the neighboring county. That one hits a state farm-to-market road. To get to the county seat, go north on that into the southeast corner of yet another county, and turn right on the US highway, crossing back into our county about 3 miles down the road. Then it's another 30 miles or so to the county seat, which is the only incorporated town in the county. Incidentally, it's also home to like 85% of the county's population, so it's got the only early voting site. So, we're waiting for the 3rd, when our nearby (only 13 miles) VFD is open as our regular polling place. It's STILL 3 counties away, but 26 miles closer. My wife was giving someone directions to get here, and they responded with, "so basically, what you're saying is, go to the edge of nowhere, cross over INTO nowhere, go 10 more miles and come back out of nowhere and there you are?"   |
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Post by papaof2 on Oct 21, 2020 11:36:51 GMT -6
That's the kind of place I like to set my stories because I think the people who live in those areas are more likely to survive an SHTF or near-SHTF event than those in walking distance of a Lidl's. If you live beyond the edge of convenient civilization, you're likely to:
be prepared for short-term loss of commercial utilities (if you have them)
have food put back at least for the ice/snow/rain/mud that prevents a trip for groceries or takeout
have space for growing your own - garden, chickens, pigs, whatever
We missed our best chance at that location when my wife's grandfather died in the late 1980's and we couldn't manage another house note to buy that farm in North Alabama. The house, chicken coop, big (1/2 acre+) fenced garden, pig pen, smokehouse, a stand of trees, two wells, septic tank - and an outhouse - were on one side of the county road and the barn and the major part of the acreage were on the other side. The house had an LP heater and a pot-bellied wood stove for heat (built-in backup ;-) If her grandmother hadn't been so insistent in following the grandfather's "Sell it as one piece" instructions, we might have been able to afford the few acres the house was on. Lots of southern exposure would have made it a great place for solar power, although the house had near-zero insulation - but that can be remedied. There was (still is) a gas station/store about a mile away (at the crossroads, of course) and the little diner that you often find at a crossroads - and it's just across the intersection from the Baptist Church and the VFD.
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Post by eyeseetwo on Nov 13, 2020 22:01:12 GMT -6
We live just a smidgen across a county line. Our parcel is is a four hour drive to the county seat in good weather. My job is at a school. The asshat officer manager brought back on her journey down State a horrible cough, fever, etc. spewed her disease. I got caught her illness. Went across county lines to the nearest to us medical care. They refused to test for influenza or COVID. Since I was from out of county. Now the symptoms I presented with are classic COVID symptoms. Back in February they were not. Freaking hate my old boss.
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