re: Holy Magma - Yellowstone

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I think the pump is a Red Lion, I dont remember the model number. Water table at the farm is about 70 feet, but well is 300 feet. It has never run dry.

I have a solar setup that would run it but if there is that much ash in the air, it would not work.

The guy that installed it also gave me a "manual lifter". He said in the SHTF situation where there is no power and the solar fails I can pull out the pump and use the lifter. The lifter is a piece of PVC with a weighted bottom that has para cord attached. He said I can lower it into the water and the weight in the PVC will pull it under water. Then you can pull it back up. I think lifter holds 2 quarts. It would take a long time to bring up water, but what the hell else will I have to do? Without power I wont be logging on here and posting.

Only drawback is that the water tastes like crap. I have a lot of limestone in my area.

I will drink filtered County water as long as it is available.

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That's interesting.

So the key would be, if there was an event, whatever it may be, to get down there and fill all your bottles and bags as fast as possible ... they make some great, inexpensive rollable storables that are stackable once filled. I got mine from ... well, dammit, I can't remember the name of the company.

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Okay, here you go. They are Aqua-Flex water pillows from ATL Aero Tech. They read 150 Gal Level III. I got those so they would fit on 4x8 plywood shelves but I think they make larger ones.

The idea is that if the SHTF you fill as many as you have before the power goes out, but in the meantime these things take-up very little space. I've got three in the storage area of the basement. There are millions of them out there among the population ... I had a body in Idaho turn me on to them. They've got a high security movie star retreat out there he helped design ... Tom Cruise, John Travolta and a bunch of others and whatever ... but they have a bunch of these pillows and bladders stored out there and money is no object to those people so it seemed like a good idea to me. I got mine through my buddy who owns the surplus store, he ordered them for me.

You may want to check them out.

Limestone water ... yeah, that can be rough. We're lucky here, we're nothing but sand so the water is damn near perfect at 300 feet. I've got three wells on the property but none of them are covered per se. I did put a cistern up though.

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All the more reason to fund space exploration and colonization to create a spare repository for human survival.

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Didn't NASA discover a planet incredibly similar to earth in a different solar system a few months back? I know they have spotted several with the Kepler, but this was the closest match. I mean this thing is like 500 light years away, but they said it could possibly possess the same climates that earth does, water, rocky terrain, is about the same distance from it's sun that earth is from ours.

Nice. Got a buddy who works at the marina, but lake hotel is nice now, just did some major renovations last year. Idk how it was in '90 but looked like shite at the start of the season then by the end was really nice. I made sure I didn't work mammoth cause he told me the managers sucked up there. He said canyon is where the hippies and partiers were so I went there got to go to red rocks twice, awesome place

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. Idk how it was in '90 but looked like shite at the start of the season then by the end was really nice

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Hoesntly didn't spend much time in the actual front hotel part. We worked in the employee kitchen. But what I remember it was nice. The park was going through a transformation at that time as it was on 2 years removed from the wild fires of 88. Did a few hikes in the burned areas, it was amazing to see the regeneration starting but was also sad due to the destruction. I do remember thinking the burned trees on the ground looked fake, almost like plastic. Might have been the hit of acid I took from Florida Dan. We hiked to a remote mt lake and I caught a beautiful rainbow trout that made my day, along with the sex with Minnesota Amy(she didn't go on the hike but I saw her when we got back and told her i was tripping for one of the first times so she volunteered to keep me company) when I got back to our employee dorm. Until My buddy, went to Au, pretending to be a sleep broke out the Polaroid camera.she kinda got pissed, especially when he asked if he could get some next. Ah good times.

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The Yellowstone fires of 1988 together formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control with increasing winds and drought and combined into one large conflagration, which burned for several months. The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history.[1] Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. A total of 793,880 acres (3,213 km2), or 36 percent of the park was affected by the wildfires.[2]

Thousands of firefighters fought the fires, assisted by dozens of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft which were used for water and fire retardant drops. At the peak of the effort, over 9,000 firefighters were assigned to the park.

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