What the Hurricane Taught us About Our Homestead

thank you, thank you, thank you, okay, apparently we're going to have a

hurricane

that will come in fine when it gets here, it shouldn't be a

hurricane

, but we'll probably have some wind, probably rain, 100 chance of rain tomorrow. Coop was there and then we moved it here to a little bit higher ground because it can flood there if it rains really well and we also want to prepare for power outages. It took them a couple of days. to establish a foreign shelter for small animals Pig shelter shade for chickens shade for ducks Goose, goose, sorry Goose Shade, that will help them weather the storm, with our meat chickens gone, we have a lot of buckets, we have a lot of empty buckets , these are buckets that we would feed them with and more water because if the electricity goes out it means our well pump doesn't work the whale doesn't work the animals don't have water we don't have water my goal with this this winter, hopefully, or for summer is put some gutters on this and then fix the roof so we can start collecting rainwater better.

However, we do have a couple of generators, so the generators will help during the summer. All of these barrels were filled with feed and I wish I could. I have installed gutters, but not when it rains here, it floods a lot and they were a little raised and then when we wanted water we could open the divider, yes, like in the old house, yes, we will do it. this one had organic soy sauce. Oh, we have a creek at the top of our property, but it's not really in a convenient location, it's a little bit down, you have to go up and then down, the creek is down here, this reminds me of the Creek property. we had on our acre and a half, it's pretty much the same thing, there's a tiny little fish there, so getting water out of there would be the ultimate emergency, like if we had to do that, we could line up our buckets right.

This is going to work. I'm just putting a little water in the bottom just to keep them down from all the wind we've been having. This is throwing away this water. Today is such a windy day that it should be good, okay, yeah. a good rain this whole thing flooded down here probably about a good six inches at least laughs foreigner foreigner has never blown over a chicken coop during the wind but you know those are pretty strong winds we're having making sure everyone's safe here giving them water Before we moved here, we actually knew, you need to research the area you're moving to right, and since you're from the west coast and you've never been to the east coast, you don't really know

what

it's like weather-wise.

I know you see it on the news like hurricanes and tornadoes and all that, but we didn't know that the area we moved to is the one we want to move to to have those things. You know, you have to think about these things and try. to realize that and around the Blue Ridge Mountains they don't really understand those things. I mean, I think it could happen, but when it gets to these mountains, the mountains break up everything that's moving through Florida and we're going to get some. I'm not too worried about the beefy guys, they're pretty sturdy creatures.

The only thing I'm worried about, I guess, would be if a tree fell on their fence here and then they'd be out. I guess that's really the only concern. I guess if we are without power for a while that means I can't feed our animals when you get an old property. It's nice to have a pile of junk that you can sift through. I'm a little bit excited that I found this in the trash pile. Here we put gutters on the house at the beginning of the season, which makes me very happy, when it rains well, the water can form a puddle right there and enter. our basement abroad, you know it's best to test your generator before you have to use it.

We have a small generator that we used in the past that worked, but it only really powered maybe one refrigerator and now we have more freezers so that The generator will power all of these freezers, four or five freezers plus our refrigerator, and it would do most of the work. home. Also, Lorraine has been canning all the food to make this pantry. Hopefully she can build this pantry with some shelves because we definitely need it. we're just raining a little bit, it took a while for it to rain, but it's here, the wind stopped, but we're just getting out here checking everyone ready, look at this flood here, wow, look they're all full now, look. this, the water is up to there, oh my God, they are already full, oh my God, I'm curious to see

what

it will look like here tomorrow because it's like the chickens are fine tomorrow abroad, yeah, okay, in the morning Next I just go out here. feeding everyone, make sure everything is okay, last night it rained really well and it was windy, but we made it through, everyone is okay, but look at these barrels guys, I wanted to show you these barrels, look at this, this one filled up too, all these buckets . full, look at that and we don't even have gutters on this, this is just because of the rain falling from the roof to here.

I mean, I'm probably looking at 160 gallons of water right here just doing this, so this just put my mind at ease and okay, we need to put some gutters on this thing and I need to get a bigger water tank. I'm thinking maybe at least 500 gallons, maybe a thousand gallon water tank and I need to hook it up, we need to get some water in the barn, yeah, those repairs we did on the roof, yeah, they didn't work out very well, so we have to do it again, the electricity didn't go out, but if it did, then we wouldn't have water. for anyone and if this was in the summer or when we are a very busy month where we have all the animals and it's very hot and they all need water, that would be a big problem, well we just use this water for all our animals and then if we have gutters that will help with the flooding we have here but we made it guys our first storm on the new property we made it but I hope you stayed safe thanks guys for subscribing and watching our channel but we will keep moving forward here and we will continue to do so and show you our day and hopefully we can share and teach you along the way, thanks for watching and see you next time