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ER Doc Finds Creative Way To Make Coffee During Power Outage

I like living on the edge of built-up civilization, but it means our little development has one electric line coming in.

Today it wanted some time off, fortunately only 4 hours. Didn’t get that cold inside, but having an all electric house has some drawbacks in that circumstance.

My wife figured out the electric-less coffee, thankfully.

*This blog post was originally published at GruntDoc*


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