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by mtippett | December 22, 2008 at 01:44 pm
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We sometimes take for granted that we drive machines that have 100,200,300 or sometimes over 500 horsepower. It's always nice to remind ourselves what this metric means and how many horses we'd have without our current automotive power. Because of the snow here today we had to hike to the grocery store and pack back our food. Hauling over 100 lbs of groceries home gets you thinking. Right now I figure I'm about 0.2 horsepower. Maybe I'll invest in a donkey.
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at 14:01 on December 22nd, 2008
Now you can tell the kids that, back in your day, you had to carry the groceries home on foot through knee-deep snow... because you did!
(By adding double-squats to your gym routine you'd get up to .35hp.)
at 21:22 on December 22nd, 2008
Good point Jordan. I need to do more of these things if not only for the theatrical record.
at 14:16 on December 22nd, 2008
It's funny to see how people deal with it... seems lots just stay at home and wait it out, not knowing they can actually walk/bike on quite a few of the streets! I can only hope it doesn't get so bad that the pizza guy might not be able to make his lifesaving deliveries?! ;)
at 21:27 on December 22nd, 2008
Mike, very interesting post and wonderful pictures. How was the experience?
at 21:32 on December 22nd, 2008
Yes we do take a lot of things for granted and do not prepare for even .2 HP on our own... Power of Nature is a greal leveller in a sense...
at 05:34 on December 23rd, 2008
Dog sleds may be better in winter then Horses though.