It’s hurricane season again, and if you don’t know what that means consider yourself lucky.
For a few months out of the year, the atmospheric and nautical conditions are perfect for tropical storms to build into hurricanes.
In this part of the country, hurricane season is serious business, and we all have to keep supplies on hand in case the worst happens. A killer hurricane can wipe out entire power grids, level one neighborhood and flood the next one, so you have to take all precautions. Most people I know have a generator of some kind, but my neighbor actually took it up a level and got a geothermal heat pump. A generator runs on gas, or maybe solar power if you have a fancy model, but a geothermal heat pump mines the boundless energy of the planet itself to power your home. In other words, you literally never have to worry about a power outage again, because a geothermal heat pump has a limitless supply of energy. You pull it from the ground, store it, and then use it to power your water heater, your electrical grid, your HVAC system, and anything else you want! Most geothermal heat pumps are strong enough to power an entire compound, so keep that in mind if you ever start a cult! I’m kidding about the cult compound, but not about the geothermal heat pump, these things are amazing. I would love to get this kind of geothermal heat pump myself, but right now I can’t because they are just too darned expensive.