#Living off the grid

[reality-detective]

Skills for the post reset world... 🤔

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The makeshift town of Slab City in the brutal Sonoran Desert might not be glamorous, but over 1,000 nomads call it home and live off-the-grid. 

Slab City, aka The Slabs, was born when the U.S. Marines abandoned Fort Dunlap, near the town of Niland. They dismantled the buildings but left the concrete slabs. Though California officially has control over the land, it’s too remote and inhospitable for it to care.

When employees from a chemical company near Niland found the slabs, they decided it was the perfect spot to make a temporary settlement close to their job.  The small trailers they brought were the beginning of the new community of Slab City.

Over the next few decades, people were drawn to the improvised city, too. To this day, the residents remain a motley collection of those with little income and people looking for a way to live off the grid.

In this forgotten place, there are no property taxes or utility bills, which makes it ideal for people trying to stretch their pensions or Social Security.

Slab City's population swells to over 4,000 during the winter months as people come down as far away as Canada to take advantage of the warmer weather and cheap living.

I’m impressed- they have a library.

When the summer heat rises to 120 degrees, most return home, leaving a smaller permanent population of about 150.

Becoming a resident of Slab City is an informal process. You simply show up, find a spot that no one else has claimed, and set up a trailer, shack, yurt, or truck.

The nearest public amenities – including drinkable water – are in Niland, a few miles away. Residents share a single communal shower fed by a nearby hot spring.

If you want electricity, you have to set up a collection of solar panels, generators, and batteries. Or you can hire "Solar Mike," who sells and installs solar panels out of his trailer

The community center, known as The Range, occasionally screens movie and TV. There's also an internet café that basically amounts to a tent with a wireless router inside. Some people are bored and some embrace the simple life.

Though police from Niland occasionally patrol the area and will respond to emergency calls, the community largely polices itself.

While drug use is common, residents say that it's usually confined to certain, well-known areas of the camp. The most common type of crime is theft but the community will shun people who are suspect. 

The entrance to East Jesus, an art installation, in Slab City.

Oddly, the remote community didn’t escape COVID and it was a hard sell for the state to try to vaccinate them.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/slab-city#24

[paperw0rmz]

Throw back to when we finished our floor!

[edscritters]

It will always bother me that the homesteading accounts on here are mostly tradfems/radfems, nazis etc. Like i dont want to hear you crying constantly cause a trans woman said excuse me to you. I just want tips on how to become more self-sufficient and shit GOD DAMN.

[kindofsmol]

anyone else has thoughts of living off the grid?

[survivalmission]

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[theoffgridcabin]

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[wonders-of-natur]

[sapinelle]

there was a massive freezing rain storm today and I lost power

[brucewaynehater101]

Reverse Robin AU

Tim, pissed that he got replaced as Robin, decides to kidnap Jason and go off grid. He bribes him with books, plenty of online literature classes, and Alfred's signed approval.

When Bruce debuts with 9 year old Dick Grayson, Tim pulls the same stunt. He has a nursery set up for Zitka, though.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is cool- it’s John and Fin’s off-the-grid tiny home in Georgia.  They’ve named it the “Beloved Cabin Tiny House Homestead & Stay.”

Fin coaxed John to leave their big city life behind and build a small 304-square-foot tiny house from the empty shell of what is called a lofted-barn portable building.

They have vegetable gardens, fruit trees, forests, two winding creeks originating from natural springs, solar energy, a methane biogas system for cooking, rainwater collection systems, and more.

They have their own style that they call “Cozy Boho Dumpster Dive.” Furniture is either DIY, repurposed, or salvaged. 

For them, a “dream home” is what they have created for themselves and specifically supports what they enjoy and how they want to live.

It took 18 mos. to build. 

They started the United Tiny House Association that has grown to become what is arguably the largest tiny living support and advocacy organization in the world with over 37K+ members.

Their toilet is a composting model.

The combination bathroom/greenhouse is their favorite room. 

When they added the greenhouse/bathroom, they converted the space that was the original bathroom into a large walk-thru closet.

Their advice for finding or creating one’s dream home is quite simple: “Do whatever you want as long as it doesn’t negatively impact others … and don’t listen to the naysayers.”

I have no idea what this is, but they say it’s for cooking fuel. 

The garden is lovely. I can’t believe that all this only took 18 mos. 

They also own 3 tiny houses, a yurt, and a skoolie. Looks like they sleep in the yurt. Makes a pretty bedroom.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/304-square-foot-diy-tiny-house-dreamy-off-grid-paradise-36829322

[paperw0rmz]

This bitch wants ROCKZ!!! Ft melody cat

[theethoslab]

Absolutely losing my mind over Scar’s stream today

He was already talking to Etho while catching ocelots

Joel logs in and Scar immediately asks if Etho wants to go visit him

We get so many Etho lore crumbs (although he doesn’t fully confirm anything except having stubble and trying to get rid of 2 extra house generators)

They hang out for like 2 hours doing nothing hut chatting

Eventually Scar leaves but forgot that he left his ocelots at Etho’s because he was so excited about boat boys that he never brought them home

[marianatrenchprobably]

Rewatching X-Men and I’m so in love with Logan’s file

Not the “thought to be Canada” that’s a Canadian man dangit

[axeandantler]

7AM in Northern Maine