Thought I would share this little story about how our neighbor and with the use of our drone saved us from having no running water during this snow storm. We live remotely off the grid in a dome on a hilltop in the Siskiyou mountains of Southern Oregon. It got very cold and the DC water pump froze and blew the fuse, and the backup fuse turns out it was blown also which meant no water. It has been heavily snowing for days and our very long driveway was deep in snow making getting out to get a replacement fuse not really an option. We have a wonderful neighbor who does lumberjack kinda stuff for a living and we do bartering favors for each other. I called him and it turned out he was in his truck near the hardware store and offered to pickup the fuses and bring them up to us. On the security cameras we watched as he tried numerous times to get up our driveway to no avail. What to do now? Well it turns out I just recently acquired a little dji mavic drone and have been starting to learn how to fly it. So I told my friend to drive to his house which is a few thousand feet away and that I would put a wire hook onto the drone and fly over and land on his truck where he could attach the fuses to it. The below photo I took of my friend as I was lifting off and flying back home with the fuses. Now we have water! Sometimes it pays to be resourceful when you live independently and remotely away from the city.
