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Chesapeake stock dips on news of CEO's loans
Chesapeake Energy Corp. shares tumbled 5.5 percent Wednesday After a published report showed that CEO Aubrey McClendon has borrowed up to $1.1 billion against his stake in Chesapeake wells.
Reuters reported Wednesday that the loans were to fund McClendon's investment in Chesapeake's Founder Well Participation Program, under which McClendon can take a 2.5 percent stake in every well drilled by the company.
Sources quoted in the article questioned whether McClendon's personal debt level on the company wells has created a conflict of interest and whether the company should have more thoroughly disclosed the financing deals.
Chesapeake has denied conflict or wrongdoing in the matter.
"The Founders Well Participation Program (FWPP) has been in place since the company's founding and was reapproved by shareholders by a wide margin in 2005," Chesapeake said in a statement Wednesday. "The terms and procedures for the program are clear and detailed in every proxy for all shareholders to see."
Under terms of the program, McClendon can buy into a stake in all the company's wells, but he cannot choose to participate only in some of the wells.
While the well participation program has been included in Securities and Exchange Commission filings, Chesapeake has not disclosed that McClendon has used his stake in the wells as collateral for loans. Records discovered by Reuters show McClendon has borrowed up to $1.1 billion, which is the same amount Forbes estimates to be McClendon's net worth.
Chesapeake said the program is legal and ethical and that it provides an additional incentive for McClendon to work hard for the success of the company.
"Loans secured by oil and gas assets are commonplace in the industry and have been employed by Chesapeake corporately during its 23-year existence and by Mr. McClendon during the 20 years the FWPP has been in existence, thus increasing the alignment of interest between Mr. McClendon and the company because both have loans and pay interests on the capital provided through such loans," Chesapeake General Counsel Henry J. Hood said in a statement.
The news drew a wide range of reaction Wednesday on Wall Street. The company's stock price dipped more than 10 percent early in the day before recovering to a loss of 5.5 percent, or $1.06 a share, to close at $18.06. The price drop erased nearly $640 million of the company's value of $11.6 billion.
Chesapeake was the second most actively traded stock on Wednesday with more than 93.5 million shares changing hands, more than five and a half times the average volume of almost 16.9 million shares exchanged.
Industry analyst Fadel Gheit dismissed the controversy.
"It could appear as something not politically correct, but it is not illegal or unethical," said Gheit, an analyst with Oppenheimer in New York. "As a shareholder, I might frown on it. I might not like it, but it has no negative impact on my view of his management skills."Gheit said McClendon told him the numbers in the Reuters story were exaggerated.
Analyst Mike Breard agreed that the loan is McClendon's personal business, but he said it still should have been more thoroughly disclosed.
"If he borrowed $2 million to build a house, that's not anyone's business. But when it's $1 billion and it involves oil and gas with Chesapeake, that's to some extent the stockholders' business," said Breard, a research analyst with Hodges Capital Management in Dallas. "It's just a scale kind of thing. I guess a billion dollars isn't as much to Aubrey as it would be to me."
At least five law firms throughout the country — including one led by the former attorney general of Louisiana — on Wednesday launched investigations into whether Chesapeake and its directors violated state or federal regulations by not fully disclosing the details of the well participation program.
Chesapeake's directors reaffirmed their support for the well program Wednesday.
"The board of directors is fully aware of the existence of Mr. McClendon's financing transactions and the fact that these occur is disclosed in the proxy," the directors said in a statement Wednesday. "Additionally, the total amount of his cost obligations and revenue attributable to the FWPP for each year are detailed in the proxy. The Founders Well Participation program fully aligns the interests of Mr. McClendon with the company, and the board of directors supports this program as does the majority of its shareholders."
While the disclosure does not specifically state that McClendon may use his stake in the wells as collateral for loans, Chesapeake director and former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said that was the clear intention of the program, considering the company participated in more than 2,000 wells in 2011 alone.
"Obviously it's assumed that Aubrey, as the participant, would on occasion borrow money to pay for these developmental costs," Keating said. "From an ethical and a business standpoint, it's certainly constructed properly and it was approved by the shareholders. I have full faith in Aubrey McClendon."

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Funeral Services for Bertha C. Triggs will be held Saturday February 1, 2014, at 11:00a.m at East Mt. Moriah Baptist Church with Rev. Obdiah Clemons officiating. Burial will be in Meridian Memorial Cemetery, with Berry and Gardner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Triggs, 79 of Lauderdale died Monday January 27, 2014 at her residence. Visitation will be Saturday February 1, 2014, from 10:00 to 11:00a.m. at East Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.
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I'm going to step outside the box and state that I don't follow the robotic utilization patterns unless I'm going to be applying for something in that month. Certainly if the scores are very important and if you want to minimize utilization as a game, then following the utilization pattern of <9% utilization on one card and all other cards reporting a zero balance will give you the desired results.
What I do try to do is keep all of my spending on my Amex charge card, which doesn't impact my utilizations. The benefit to letting a balance report depends on the lender. If your total CL on a card is 4k, and your highest balance ever reported on the card is $350, then why would that creditor or any other creditor be tempted to give you higher limits?
If you can show that you use your current lines reponsibly, then you can get higher limits in the future. Irresponsible behavior such as "maxing out" cards, and missing payments or only paying the minumums should be avoided at all costs.
that's my 2 cents worth!
Utilization is good to consider for four reasons.
1. Applying for new credit.
2. Getting CLI's
3. Solicitation for new credit.
4. Nervouse lenders.
While the first and second one can easily be dismissed and played with in the month that you wish to do extend your credit, the other two cannot. Depending on the creditor who is soliciting you this might be a factor when they ask the credit bureaus for a list of candidates. Certainly some lenders are more nervous than others and if they see a large utilization it might actually affect how they treat your account. It could mean a lower interest rate offered to you or even an extension of credit on their end. Using all your available credit could cause some lenders to simply decide that you are a greater risk. I say could, so don't all of you jump and cry foul at once.
I think it always wise to get limits increased as often as possible to avoid issues with utilization. I also think it wise to never carry a balance forward. While there is no easy way for creditors to track whether this is revolving or new purchases, it can be done to some small degree. I think Capone figured this out long ago, they are known for getting a soft pull as often as once a week. There must be a reason they do this or a few reasons they do it. They certainly have reasons they do what they do, not all of them in the best interest of the customer! How many sub-prime cardholders do they have? If they know the risk of these individuals then they can take steps to insure their strategies are met by knowing the utilization of their customers.
To test some of the theories about utilization and how it affects a score I loaned one of my cards to my sister. I'm not paying for the interest so I don't really care how much is charged to it. I also care how much is charged to it to, to test this and other theories! It does affect your score! Even one card nearly maxed out affects the score even if your overall utilization is less than recommended! Since I am just gardening anyway, her debt to my card is not that important and helps with the high balance on the report. (Don't worry, I can pay off her debt in a hearbeat if needed! I have ten times in savings to what she owes on the card!) I am waiting to see what the threshold is for one card compared to overall usage! I owe about $25 on my cards right now, she owes the other 20% of my utilization! (Yeah, I am benefitting from her using the card in the long term, both with that card and with my overall report!) It will be interesting to find out how much utilization on one card is weighed to the overall and about what that % is.
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Madison Ups Tuition, Fees
In-State JMU Students To Pay $5,406; Out-Of State Rises To $20,266
HARRISONBURG — The James Madison University board of visitors voted unanimously Friday to raise tuition and fees for the upcoming school year, even without a final version of the state's budget.
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The winter temperatures are here. I think if it is this cold, there should at least be snow on the ground. My family still is waiting on the snow.
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Risk Assessment Via a Robust Probit Model, with Application to Toxicology
Fine, Jason P., Bosch, Ronald J., Journal of the American Statistical Association
Various frameworks have been suggested for assessing the risk associated with continuous toxicity outcomes. The first formulates the effect of exposure on the adverse effect via a simple normal model and then computes the risk function using tail probabilities from the standard normal distribution. Because this risk function depends heavily on the assumed model, it may be sensitive to model misspecification. Recently, a semiparametric approach that utilizes an alternative definition of excess risk has been studied. Unfortunately, it is not yet clear how the two approaches relate to one another. In this article, we investigate a semiparametric normal model in which an unknown transformation of the adverse response satisfies the linear model. We demonstrate that this formulation unifies the two existing approaches and allows for a coherent risk analysis of dose--response data. In addition, estimation and inference procedures for the unknown transformation in the semiparametric model for the continuous response are developed. These are incorporated in novel model-checking procedures, including a formal sup-norm test of the simple normal model. A well-known toxicological study of aconiazide, a drug under investigation for treatment of tuberculosis, serves as a case study for the risk assessment methodology.
KEY WORDS: Dose-response curve; H-H plot; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; Risk function; Semiparametric transformation model; Toxicity study.
Until recently, the literature on risk assessment focused almost exclusively on the relationship of a binary response to the dose of a potentially toxic substance. That is, interest centered on the occurrence or nonoccurrence of some adverse effect, such as tumor presence. In many cases, however, the dichotomous outcomes arise by splitting a continuous response. Thus the analysis may be highly dependent on the way in which the Bernoulli response is constructed; that is, sensitive to the method used to select the cutoff.
Instead of grouping the continuous response, one can model the raw outcome directly and then determine the probability of certain extreme events using the model. This was the approach taken by Chen and Gaylor (1992), Gaylor and Slikker (1990, 1992), and Kodell and West (1993). First, a linear normal model is fit to the data. Next, in accordance with Kodell and West (1993), an adverse event is defined to be a realization of the continuous response that falls in the "extreme" tail. Kodell and West (1993) characterize "extreme" by distance in standard deviations from the mean of the control (dose = 0) group. The evaluation of the dose effect is then based on the difference in this probability of a tail event compared to control. Unfortunately, the procedure may be sensitive to skewed and nonnormal errors. To address this issue, Grump (1995) considered a parametric model with an arbitrary error distribution. Even with this generalization, the key difficulty is that the tail probabilities used to compute the risk function may be highly dependent on the choice of error distribution. In particular, there may be no control group observations having the tail event.
A novel approach put forth by Bosch, Wypij, and Ryan (1995, 1996) uses a different measure of risk. Specifically, the authors attempt to answer the question "What is the probability that the response of a control subject (dose = 0) is greater than the response of a subject with exposure d (dose = d)?" When the number of dose groups is small, these probabilities can be estimated nonparametrically by looking at all possible pairings of subjects in dose group d with subjects in the control group. However, this procedure can lead to loss of information, especially in small laboratory studies in which there may only be a few animals in each dose group. To increase efficiency, the authors use the popular probit model to formulate the effect of dose on the underlying probabilities. …


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Will We Demand the Inexpensive Fix Which Will Prevent Armageddon … Or Focus On Over-Blown Dangers?
Well-known physicist Michio Kaku and other members of the American Physical Society asked Congress to appropriate $100 million to harden the country's electrical grid against solar flares. As shown below, such an event is actually the most likely Armageddon-type event faced by humanity.
Congress refused.
Kaku explains that a solar flare like the one that hit the U.S. in 1859 would – in the current era of nuclear power and electric refrigeration – cause widespread destruction and chaos.
Not only could such a flare bring on hundreds of Fukushima-type accidents, but it could well cause food riots globally.
Kaku explains that relief came in for people hit by disasters like Katrina or Sandy from the "outside". But a large solar flare could knock out a lot of the power nationwide. So – as people's food spoils due to lack of refrigeration – emergency workers from other areas would be too preoccupied with their own local crisis to help. There would, in short, be no "cavalry" to the rescue in much of the country.
In fact, NASA scientists are predicting that a solar storm will knock out most of the electrical power grid in many countries worldwide, perhaps for months. See this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
News Corp Australia noted in February:
A 2009 study by the National Academy of Sciences warned that a massive geomagnetic assault on satellites and interconnected power grids could result in a blackout from which the nation may need four to 10 years to recover.
In May 2012, a US Geological Survey report estimated a 6 percent chance of another Carrington event [referring to the solar flare of 1859 which was so strong that telegraph lines, towers and stations caught on fire at a number of locations around the world, and sparks showered from telegraph machines] occurring in the next decade.
But we do not know whether or not the Carrington event was as bad as sunstorms get.
[University of Kansas physicist Adrian ] Melott proposed that material from a solar megaflare 10 times the strength of the Carrington kind bombarded this planet around the year 775.
This is not just a theoretical fear: the Earth has narrowly missed being crisped by a large solar flare several times in the last couple of years. For example, the Los Angeles Times reported last month:
Earth barely missed the "perfect solar storm" that could have smashed into our magnetic field and wreaked havoc with our satellite systems, electronics and power systems, potentially causing trillions of dollars in damage, according to data from NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft.
If the solar onslaught had occurred just nine days earlier, it would have rivaled the 1859 Carrington event …
"Observations of such a solar superstorm during a very weak solar cycle indicate that extreme events are not as infrequent as we imagine," the authors wrote.
Image courtesy of NASA
Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes:
We have the very real possibility that a geomagnetic storms of an intensity that has happened before–and will happen again–could knock out the power to tens of millions of Americans for multiple years. The electrical grids in Europe and northern Asia have similar vulnerabilities, so a huge, years-long global emergency affecting hundreds of millions of people and costing many trillions of dollars might result from a repeat of the 1859 or 1921 geomagnetic storms.
Masters points out that the U.S. electrical grid is extremely vulnerable:
Figure 2. Computer model study showing electrical systems that might be affected by a geomagnetic storm equivalent to the May 14-15, 1921 event. The regions outlined by the heavy black lines are susceptible to system collapse lasting months or years. A population in excess of 130 million might be affected, at a cost of $1-2 trillion in the first year after the event. The network of thin black lines shows the location of the nearly 80,000 miles long-distance heavy-hauling 345kV, 500kV and 765kV transmission lines in the U.S.–the main arteries of the U.S. electrical grid. The circles indicate magnitudes of geomagnetically-induced current (GIC) flow at each transformer in the network, and the color of the circle indicates the polarity of the current. Image credit: John Kappenman, Metatech Corp., The Future: Solutions or Vulnerabilities?, presentation to the space weather workshop, May 23, 2008.
What would happen to nuclear power plants world wide if their power – and most of the surrounding modern infrastructure – is knocked out? Nuclear power companies are notoriously cheap in trying to cut costs. If they are failing to harden their electrical components to protect against the predicted solar storm, they are asking for trouble … perhaps on a scale that dwarfs Fukushima. Because while Fukushima is the first nuclear accident to involve multiple reactors within the same complex, a large solar storm could cause accidents at multiple complexes in numerous countries.
Most current reactors are of a similarly outdated design as the Fukushima reactors, where the cooling systems require electricity to operate, and huge amounts of spent radioactive fuel are housed on-site, requiring continuous cooling to prevent radioactive release. (Designs which would automatically shut down – and cool down – in the event of an accident are ignored for political reasons.)
If the nuclear power companies and governments continue to cut costs and take large gambles, the next nuclear accident could make Fukushima look tame.
A large solar storm which knocks out electrical grids over wide portions of the planet will happen at some point in the future. Don't pretend it is unforeseeable. The nuclear power industry is on notice that it must spend the relatively small amounts of money necessary to prevent a widespread meltdown from the loss of power due to a solar storm.
G2 Bulletin reports:
As scientists warn of an impending solar storm … that could collapse the national power grid, thrusting millions into darkness instantly, a debate has flared up between utilities and the federal government on the severity of such an event.
NASA and the National Academy of Sciences previously confirmed to G2Bulletin that an electromagnetic pulse event from an intense solar storm could occur any time …
They say it could have the effect of frying electronics and knocking out transformers in the national electric grid system.
Already, there are separate published reports of massive solar storms of plasma – some as large as the Earth itself – flaring off of the sun's surface and shooting out into space, with some recently having come close enough to Earth to affect worldwide communications and alter the flights of commercial aircraft near the North Pole.
But in February, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which represents the power industry, issued a stunning report asserting that a worst-case geomagnetic "super storm" like the 1859 Carrington Event likely wouldn't damage most power grid transformers. Instead, it would cause voltage instability and possibly result in blackouts lasting only a few hours or days, but not months and years.
NERC's assertion, however, is at serious variance with the 2008 congressional EMP Commission, the 2008 National Academy of Sciences report; a 2010 Federal Energy Regulatory Commission report; the 2012 report by the Defense Committee of the British Parliament, and others.
Even the British scientists who contributed to the parliament report came to their own independent assessment that a great geomagnetic storm would cause widespread damage to power grid transformers and result in a protracted blackout lasting months, or even years, with catastrophic consequences for society.
[The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or "FERC"], which regulates interstate electricity and other energy sales but has no authority now over local utilities to harden their grid sites, says that as many as 130 million Americans could have problems for years.
U.S. transformers on the average are more than 30 years old and are susceptible to internal heating, according to FERC experts.
There is ample evidence in the possession of the FERC revealing the damage to transformers from previous geomagnetic storms. For example, there was serious transformer damage to the Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey in the aftermath of the same geomagnetic storm that caused the March 1989 Hydro-Quebec blackout.
Making Ourselves More Vulnerable to Terrorism
In addition, we've spent tens of trillions on the "war on terror", but have failed to take steps to protect against the largest terrorist threat of all: an attack on the power supplies to nuclear power plants. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) which took out the power supply to a nuclear power plant would cause a Fukushima-style meltdown, and spent fuel pools are extremely vulnerable to terrorism.
Indeed, failing to harden our electrical grid invites a terrorist EMP attack because it is such an obvious vulnerability … its like waiving a red flag in front of a bull. Given that the Department of Homeland Security concludes that even North Korea can launch an EMP attack on the U.S., this is a real vulnerability.
Unless we harden our electrical system to withstand electrical pulses, an EMP remains an attractive method for bad guys to bring the U.S. to its knees.
Bottom line: Failing to harden our grid invites catastrophe from solar flares and terrorists. It makes us doubly vulnerable.
There's An Easy Fix … Are We Smart Enough to Take It?
Japan's nuclear meltdown, the economic crisis and the Gulf oil spill all happened for the same reason: big companies cutting every corner in the book – and hiding the existence of huge risks – in order to make a little money.
There are relatively easy fixes to the threat from solar flares.
The head of the leading consulting firm on the effect of electromagnetic disruptions on our power grid – which was commissioned to study the issue by the U.S. federal government – stated that it would be relatively inexpensive to reduce the vulnerability of our power grid:
What we're proposing is to add some fairly small and inexpensive resistors in the transformers' ground connections. The addition of that little bit of resistance would significantly reduce the amount of the geomagnetically induced currents that flow into the grid.
We think it's do-able for $40,000 or less per resistor. That's less than what you pay for insurance for a transformer.
If you're talking about the United States, there are about 5,000 transformers to consider this for. The Electromagnetic Pulse Commission recommended it in a report they sent to Congress last year. We're talking about $150 million or so. It's pretty small in the grand scheme of things.
Mechanical engineer Matthew Stein notes (footnotes omitted):
There are nearly 450 nuclear reactors in the world, with hundreds more being planned or under construction…. Imagine what havoc it would wreak on our civilization and the planet's ecosystems if we were to suddenly witness not just one or two nuclear meltdowns, but 400 or more! How likely is it that our world might experience an event that could ultimately cause hundreds of reactors to fail and melt down at approximately the same time? I venture to say that, unless we take significant protective measures, this apocalyptic scenario is not only possible, but probable.
In the past 152 years, Earth has been struck by roughly 100 solar storms, causing significant geomagnetic disturbances (GMD), two of which were powerful enough to rank as "extreme GMDs." If an extreme GMD of such magnitude were to occur today, in all likelihood, it would initiate a chain of events leading to catastrophic failures at the vast majority of our world's nuclear reactors, similar to but over 100 times worse than, the disasters at both Chernobyl and Fukushima.
The good news is that relatively affordable equipment and processes could be installed to protect critical components in the electric power grid and its nuclear reactors, thereby averting this "end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" scenario. The bad news is that even though panels of scientists and engineers have studied the problem, and the bipartisan Congressional electromagnetic pulse (EMP) commission has presented a list of specific recommendations to Congress, our leaders have yet to approve and implement any significant preventative measures.
Unfortunately, the world's nuclear power plants, as they are currently designed, are critically dependent upon maintaining connection to a functioning electrical grid, for all but relatively short periods of electrical blackouts, in order to keep their reactor cores continuously cooled so as to avoid catastrophic reactor core meltdowns and fires in storage ponds for spent fuel rods.
If an extreme GMD were to cause widespread grid collapse (which it most certainly will), in as little as one or two hours after each nuclear reactor facility's backup generators either fail to start, or run out of fuel, the reactor cores will start to melt down. After a few days without electricity to run the cooling system pumps, the water bath covering the spent fuel rods stored in "spent-fuel ponds" will boil away, allowing the stored fuel rods to melt down and burn. Since the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) currently mandates that only one week's supply of backup generator fuel needs to be stored at each reactor site, it is likely that, after we witness the spectacular nighttime celestial light show from the next extreme GMD, we will have about one week in which to prepare ourselves for Armageddon.
To do nothing is to behave like ostriches with our heads in the sand, blindly believing that "everything will be okay" as our world drifts towards the next natural, inevitable super solar storm and resultant extreme GMD. Such a storm would end the industrialized world as we know it, creating almost incalculable suffering, death and environmental destruction on a scale not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
The federal government recently sponsored a detailed scientific study to better understand how much critical components of our national electrical power grid might be affected by either a naturally occurring GMD or a man-made EMP. Under the auspices of the EMP Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and reviewed in depth by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Academy of Sciences, Metatech Corporation undertook extensive modeling and analysis of the potential effects of extreme geomagnetic storms on the US electrical power grid. Based upon a storm as intense as the 1921 storm, Metatech estimated that within the United States, induced voltage and current spikes, combined with harmonic anomalies, would severely damage or destroy over 350 EHV power transformers critical to the functioning of the US grid and possibly impact well over 2000 EHV transformers worldwide.
EHV transformers are made to order and custom-designed for each installation, each weighing as much as 300 tons and costing well over $1 million. Given that there is currently a three-year waiting list for a single EHV transformer (due to recent demand from China and India, lead times grew from one to three years), and that the total global manufacturing capacity is roughly 100 EHV transformers per year when the world's manufacturing centers are functioning properly, you can begin to grasp the implications of widespread transformer losses.
The loss of thousands of EHV transformers worldwide would cause a catastrophic grid collapse across much of the industrialized world. It will take years, at best, for the industrialized world to put itself back together after such an event, especially considering the fact that most of the manufacturing centers that make this equipment will also be grappling with widespread grid failure.
In the event of an extreme GMD-induced long-term grid collapse covering much of the globe, if just half of the world's spent fuel ponds were to boil off their water and become radioactive, zirconium-fed infernos, the ensuing contamination could far exceed the cumulative effect of 400 Chernobyls.
The Congressionally mandated EMP Commission has studied the threat of both EMP [i.e. an electromagnetic pulse set of by terrorists or adversaries in war] and extreme GMD events and made recommendations to the US Congress to implement protective devices and procedures to ensure the survival of the grid and other critical infrastructures in either event. John Kappenman, author of the Metatech study, estimates that it would cost about $1 billion to build special protective devices into the US grid to protect its EHV transformers from EMP or extreme GMD damage and to build stores of critical replacement parts should some of these items be damaged or destroyed. Kappenman estimates that it would cost significantly less than $1 billion to store at least a year's worth of diesel fuel for backup generators at each US nuclear facility and to store sets of critical spare parts, such as backup generators, inside EMP-hardened steel containers to be available for quick change-out in the event that any of these items were damaged by an EMP or GMD.
For the cost of a single B-2 bomber or a tiny fraction of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bank bailout, we could invest in preventative measures to avert what might well become the end of life as we know it. There is no way to protect against all possible effects from an extreme GMD or an EMP attack, but we could implement measures to protect against the worst effects. Since 2008, Congress has narrowly failed to pass legislation that would implement at least some of the EMP Commission's recommendations.
Citizens can do their part to push for legislation to move toward this goal and work inside our homes and communities to develop local resilience and self reliance, so that in the event of a long-term grid-down scenario, we might make the most of a bad situation. The same tools that are espoused by the Transition movement for developing local self-reliance and resilience to help cope with the twin effects of climate change and peak oil could also serve communities well in the event of an EMP attack or extreme GMD. If our country were to implement safeguards to protect our grid and nuclear power plants from EMP, it would also eliminate the primary incentive for a terrorist to launch an EMP attack. The sooner we take these actions, the less chance that an EMP attack will occur.
Will we insist that these inexpensive fixes to our electrical grid be made? Or will we focus on over-blown dangers … and ignore the thing most likely to actually get us?
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Put survial items, including a moped with water carriers, in a cage. The moped will be useful after the bulk of people are dead because EMP has no effect on guns. Have enough material to board up all windows but one which should be mocked up to look like the house has already been broken in and burned out. After at least one body is dead, leave it near the window. The idea is to make it look like the house has been picked over many times. You need to be resolved to perform quiet kills, noise draws attention. You need many fall-backs and a layered defense.
This is a useful tool for viewing solar events:
"But the fact remains that far too many people, and organizations, who really don't have the knowledge to know what they're talking about, bombard us with misleading claims. That's one of the main reasons our society remains paralyzed, doing next to nothing to address what is really the defining issue of this century."
So much bullshit about 'EMP', too many people watching too many movies and playing too many video games. For a decent EMP. you need a nuke. Then you have a different sort of problem. IIRC, the closest we come so far to producing an EMP weapon is to fit a massive generator on a warship, but that provides very limited range. Fucking EMP. And this is being discussed at the highest levels?! Tards.
Don't disagree with your burp theory at all, but I'm talking about weaponised EMP. It's bullshit. Really.
A "Carrington" event? Have we not learned something since the birth communications?
Well... we now know that towns need red brick crossways to know how to cross the street. And to do this we need "Build America" bonds. It's a crony moment. Like Y2K and the Ukraine.
Anyone know what crony was entitled to buy the high yielding $Billion Ukrainian bond the US insured?
Obama spent something like $500 million (for hundreds of millions of lines of code) on a dysfunctional junk shell web site with no security. Friend of Moochelle's, dontcha know.
Thing is, companies that make grid resistors, or who could combine to make grid transformers, probably aren't in the payola business to a profoundly corrupt self-enriching congress.
Of course Congress turned down funding for a rational and mitigating action to a possible disaster that is very real. No tradeable Carbon credits for cronies.
But here's the best part...
Scientists have been noticing a destabilizing effect in the magento-sphere that protects the Earth from Solar radiation, resulting in a weakening of it's protective range.
It seems our North-South polarity is migrating around in certain areas for some unknown as yet reason.
Increasing strength of solar flares + a weakening halo of protective magneto-sphere is not a recipe for success for carbon based lifeforms.
My guess the winners will be those with underground shelters where they can hunt at night for some opossum fricassee.
City folks will have subway tunnels and long pig.
Why waste 150 million on this plan when we could spend another 5 billion to overthrow another country like we did in Ukraine?
let's kill a lot of people to prop up economic, energy and food systems that kill a lot of people
We don't want to waste money on 'what ifs', and we need to make sure we can send Ukraine a billion bux. Probably more but that's what we're telling you.
And yet still the ZH Flat Earth Society are telling us that if necessary the Internet will be switched off to stop bitcoin.
Switch off the Internet = Switch off the grid. They are instrinsically connected , *all* grid load distribution data is now routed over TCP/IP. Some people on here seem to think that data is routed in real time by Carrier Pidgeon , I can assure them it is not.
But note most of the grid and internet infrastructure are pretty damn hardened against solar flare activity , most decent buidings will act as a Faraday Cage , as well as equipment racks - it's impossible to cage the extremely long distribution lines themselfs , these pick up huge amounts of DC current which quickly overheat and destroy transformers , but these transformers can have Varistors installed which will automatically earth out large DC currents. This is a relatively cheap way to protect the system.
Hopefully they will proceed with hardening the grid and the internet , while at the same time telling people Obummer has installed an Internet Kill Switch , just to keep the muppets stupid , scared and poor.
Switching stuff off won't help in the event of a Carrington type event. Go and read about how the telegraph exchanges just burned anyway. Fascinating.
"*all* grid load distribution data is now routed over TCP/IP." Well, apart from the stuff using ATM, but I'm sure you knew that.
EMP on the other hand, isn't about a slow overload due to currents induced in transmission lines. It includes an enormous spike of energy across the spectrum that protective circuits can't act quickly enough to shunt/dampen.
Hey, we gots our DULY ELECTED prez and all his czars workin on it, so what could go wrong?
Hmmm....why would anyone oppose voter ID laws........
Solar flare or EMP, the real problem lies not in the power plants or substations failing, but in the failure of farming and transportation equipment. Almost every person on this planet is dependent on oil to eat. Oil-powered tractors sow and harvest food, oil-power trucks deliver said food to local stores, then people get in their oil-power cars to go buy that food.
If an Solar flare/EMP takes out the electronics on tractors/trucks/cars and renders them inoperable, a lot of people are going to die.
Nearly all fresh water is delivered to homes via electric pumps as well, if you don't die of thirst you will most likely starve.
Long farmland/rural living...and brass and lead...and Au/Ag.
PS...Fuck the American Physical Society and Michio Kaku, shills for Global Warming Propoganda
"Global Warming Propoganda"
Are atmospheric CO2 levels also a lie? Stupid people like you will be the death of us all.
Fuck! We are still just a bunch of clever monkeys playing with dynamite.
And yet... you are able to operate a keyboard... Amazing.
"Global Warming Propoganda"
"Are atmospheric CO2 levels also a lie? Stupid people like you will be the death of us all."
The scientific models showed a continuing rapid increase in temperature. The actual temperature data did not match the models. Who are the stupid people? Seems those who created the models.
Quit with the bullshit rhetoric....
If you don't think the models are working then explain this
When you take into account actual CH4 emissions, solar output and the like, you find that the 1988 Hansen projection was pretty much bang on...
Again I ask: "Are the atmospheric CO2 level measurements a lie?"
Given that thousands of labs around the world can measure CO2 levels with ease, are they all in on this giant conspiracy?
Misdirection. The question is what effect do, and will, rising CO2 levels have. I don't know anyone disputing modern CO2 measurements, although estimates of past levels are of course estimates, from proxies, and debatable.
we measure a lot of things in modern life and our measuring has, for the most part, become more accurate and more detailed. The CO2 rise, or more accurately, the RATE of the CO2 rise along with its concentration and along with the many feedback affects - atmospheric water concentration, glacier depletion, permafrost melt, etc is the problem. Anyone who talks about CO2 in and of itself reveals a lot.
It's more than a coincidence that unprecdented rates of concentration and feedback have occurred in complete conjunction with the unprecedented unearthing and burning of concentrated energy that took millions of years to form but were unleashed in under a hundred along with unprecdented deforestation. Hard to think this would not cause some meaningful unbalance. Hard to think that life systems, along with economic, rely on balance and competition Hard to say, with a straight face, that this experiment has a precedent
CO2 is a green house gas. CO2 also turns into Carbonic acid in the oceans killing shell fish.
Can you please direct me to the "misdirection"?
You doublt global warming but admit to CO2 level rise?...how do you balance this all out in your head? What series of mind tricks do you play on yourself to continue on in your denial? What of Occam's razor?
To be fair, it doesn't necessarily take federal money. Each state, each company, each plant, can take steps on their own, subject to local rates and such.
and ignore the thing most likely to actually get us?
So now you are a crying-wolf prognosticator? When you say "are we", you reveal your inner socialist.
Edit: Presumably the parable of storing in barns is unfamiliar to you. Which is why you portray it to a "T".
Maybe the Homeyland Security can trade one billion rounds of hollow points for some resistors.
The probabiliy of this type of event is difficult to predict, but if such an event( CME or MEP) were to occur humn recovery is highly improbable; it would be a knock-out punch and could end human life on earth. Any investments made in preparation would likely be inadequate since the after strike period is undefined and probably so varied that little can be done to prepare. Man kind might, at best, commence a new move toward re- evolution, but the question is toward what future?? It is probably not economically worth the cost and redesign of systems to survive since we have no idea how to survive such events, must less finance such preparations. Futility and despiration become major emotional issues for survivors.
Secondly, The off-grid industry is already massive in some areas, like the western USA. The current formulia is rather basic and costly. It is unlikely to we can know what the preparations objective should be: wait for a recovery from other regions? or start off with a different life style objective. Social planning , cooperation and control might be impossible to reestablish. Some areas of earth might survive due to chance, but we know that in the long run we must ask if life on earth is ever to become sustainable and worth the efforts to build survival systems (Physical and emotional). Earth may be a planet that was "almost, but not quite", able to sustain human life. A failed experiment in biology?
Such an knock out event would throw existing social foundations out of kilter, human culture centuries in the making would be cast in doubt. God is Dead? Not worth building human life around group-centered religious notions? Man is not a survivable strain of life? Which social objectives are capable of commanding human focus effort? Self destruction at some point is the goal of human life? Has anything changed much?? We dwell in ignorance, as secret existentialists?
If you want any money, you need to somehow tie it to global warming or global war on terrorism, otherwise there are no incentives for government puppets to spend money to benefit their puppet masters.
A nice, fat solar flare would contribute to global warming, no? Like in Knowing.
Oh shit, flares are coming back into fashion.
Not only could such a flare bring on hundreds of Fukushima-type accidents, but it could well cause food riots globally.
Bullets cost money, solar flares are free that is why they won't harden the grid. These fuckers want population reduction by any means.
400 Fukushimas could reduce the human population to zero. I don't think that's what anybody wants.
Extinction Level Event. Nothing would live. Hundreds of thousands of spent fuel rods going up in flames. Including MOX plutonium. Now that would be a reset.
Just look at who populates the Science Committees in the House, where bills originate. Looks kind of like the BOD for the Flat Earth Society.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Infortunately the global warming scam is using up much of the oxygen in such committees.
They might do it for 10X the necessary cost if a defense contractor proposes it, though working to save lives by protecting infrastructure may violate the corporate culture, causing cognitive dissonance.
Since the Government didn't want to spend the money on fixing this 'most likely armageddon' possibilty they decided to up the probability of a nuclear weapons EMP event. That makes the flared-based grid takedown appear less of a threat on a proportional basis. Government logic. The worstcase scenarios in a grid down event are truly horrifying. The FSA turns into shambling hordes of zombies searching for food after transportation grinds to a halt and banking systems turn off. It's good to stock up on food now. It's better that no one knows you have the food, at least if you live in Zombieland.
A few good novels out ther about this:
One Second After
A Distant Eden
Thing is Fred, even if you could preserve the grid in a mild event you can't so easily isolate and preserve all the bits attached to it, like the turbine generators themselves, or the appliances and integrated circuits. It's such a complex issue that it's broadly accepted that failure modes in EMP experiments show that it never occurs in the same way twice. Things always fail in completely unexpected ways, and they don't just fail, they also degrade and become unreliable, but you don't find out, until its caused its share of compounding problems and other failures.
Most of the components in EMP lab and large-scale facility testing simply can't be fixed, and you can't even see or locate where they've failed. They're junk, and have to be re-manufactured, or done without. No refrigeration, no aircon, no water pumps, etc. If every light bulb and appliance in your house, plus every house and public and commercial building in your city and state failed at the same time, but the grid sort of survived somewhat, but the generators are all fried, and mechanically lunched themselves due to lubrication loss and mechanical bearing and electro-levitation failure as they spin down, then you're still screwed for a very long time. Not to mention the millions of electrical resistance overheating fires. The problem is so much bigger than the grid supply.
Surviving the die off, as an individual or small family unit, would require a combination of luck, preparation, and cold brutality that's pretty damned scary, in the all chips are fried + no grid scenarios. I've bought some high capacity water filters, because rhe water supply and sanitation situation would go to hell immediately, and a large proportion of urban dwellers would go out sick from such infections. The notion of nuke plants and storage pools melting down and burning as we learned with Fuku I haven't read of in any of the fictional dramtizations of and EMP or severe solar event. Maybe potassium iodide would help. In an EMP, you are probably in nuclear war too.
Good find George. This is one area where safe than sorry really applies. Upgrading and modernizing the electric grid has been discussed for decades now.
It also creates jobs that really do something and is not merely "stimulus" and make work. I am in higher education and I cannot tell you how ashamed I am of some of what the "stimulus" money went for. Almost every project was a make work kind of project or purchase that was thought of to "get the money" but did little to help the university become more self sufficient or sustainable. Much of it is stuff that won't even last very long.
Kudos to you GW for continuing to get this information out. These are important considerations for anyone who wants to do more than just roll the dice and hope. Matt Stein is a super source as well. Two of his books are staple references on my shelf When Technology Fails and When Disaster Strikes. Sometimes, making small adjustments and decisions now can mean all the difference later.
I'd like to be a fly on the wall and know the real reason(s) that Congress refuses to address suring up our grid. Who would really stand to gain from such a hideous scenario?
One cannot possibly foresee - or even know - of the enumerable ways in which catastrophic events can occur. Ascribing high confidence to the probability of certain such events is illusory.
"Ascribing high confidence to the probability of certain such events is illusory." - mayhem_korner
This is normalcy bias, plain and simple. Let's begin by acknowledging that powerful EMPs have hit Earth in the past when human society was just entering the world of electricity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
It was not a very big deal (unless you were a telegraph operator). That is. both the probability of occurrence and the potential effect on society were low. Further, we didn't understand such things very well. Hence, it was rational to ignore its implications. That is no longer true. Given our dependence on technology, our awareness of the risk, and our understanding of how to minimize that risk, it is foolish to not take those steps. The AER estimates that it would cost the globe about $2.6 trillion if a Carrington-like event occurred today, not to mention the human toll. Shelling out a few hunderd million to minimize such risk seems prudent.


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BARRE Merle Roselind LaValley Bresette, 96, of Barre, passed away in the comfort of her home surrounded by family on May 2, 2013.
Born in Barre on April 7, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Edward William LaValley and Marguerite (Mattote) LaValley.
First married to the late Maurice Plante, she later married William Edward Bresette, deceased, of Barre.
Merle attended Barre City School. As a young woman, she worked in various restaurants and later in life as a proprietor in her own establishments around Waitsfield, Montpelier and Barre.
In her later years after retirement, Merle loved to play cards, crocheting, knitting and volunteering at the Barre Senior Center, creating various ceramic pieces for family and friends and spending time with her large and loving family, especially her grandchildren.
Merle is survived by her children, sons Roy Plante, N.Y., Tommy Plante and his wife Sharon of N.Y., daughters Merle (Plante) Hutchins and her husband, Gary, of Ariz., Cynthia (Bresette) Nichols of Barre, Vt., Susan (Bresette) Kelley and Steven Sayers of Barre, Vt., and Nancy (Bresette) Gosselin and Chris Palin of Barre, Vt.; granddaughters Lisa Plante, Angela Penny Vlamis, Tonya (Colbeth) Bott, Tammy (Bresette) Pasette; grandsons Allen Hutchins, Lonnie Hutchins, Timothy Hutchins, Kurt Hutchins, Gary Hutchins Jr., Aaron Plante, Nikki Vlamis, William Cassie Bresette, Steven Bresette, Shaun Colbeth, Ricky Rich and Theodore Roulie Nichols; her very good friends, Linda Hebert, Judy Aldgretti, Dale Murray and Marlene Norton; as well as many great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
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Who needs a hotel room when you have comfy beds, an adjustable heater and a locking door in a scenic area, for a fraction of the price? Whether you stay in a rustic yurt or the deluxe cabin with a kitchen, bathroom and shower, your family will be set up for an adventurous outdoor experience with the promise of a cozy night's sleep. Read on to discover our list of snuggly options inland and on the coast.
photo: Oregon Coast by Stacy Coplin
On the Coast
Beverly Beach State Park
This campground has a secret passage walkway under the highway opens onto a picturesque expanse of beach– view of lighthouse included. Whether you are there for sculpting sand castles, hunting fossils, or kite flying, you won't be disappointed. On top of all that, the campground has a playground, creek access, and a wind-sheltered picnic area.
Camper's Tip: Add a bonus feature to your trip with a visit to the Oregon Coast Aquarium, just minutes from the campground.
Location: US Hwy 101, 7 miles North of Newport
Address: Beverly Beach State Park, Newport
Cabins: None
Yurts: 21 ($44-$54/night)
Cape Lookout State Park
There's a bucketful of adventure waiting on the beach at this campground. A great place for beach-combing and rock exploring, your kiddos won't be short on discoveries. There are over eight miles of hiking trails for exploring the old-growth forest, and from the end of the cape there's a chance you might spot a whale.
Camper's Tip: This beach is known for being a great place to find glass floats.
Location: Off US Hwy 101, 12 miles Southwest of Tillamook
Address: 13000 Whiskey Creek Rd., Tillamook, Or 97141
Deluxe Cabins: 6 ($88-$98/night)
Yurts: 13 ($44-$54/night)
Fort Stevens State Park
Steeped in history, Fort Stevens brings new meaning to an educational vacation. After retracing the steps of our military past, you can enjoy everything else this park has to offer. Whether swimming in a freshwater lake, or cruising along miles of hiking and biking trails, big memories are guaranteed.
Camper's Tip: For an adventure within an adventure, take your first mates to the beach and pretend to be pirates near the old shipwreck and hunt for treasures in the sand.
Location: Off US Hwy 101, 10 miles West of Astoria
Address: Fort Stevens State Park, Hammond
Deluxe Cabins: 11 ($89-$99/night)
Yurts: 15 ($45-$55/night)
photo: Oregon Coast by Stacy Coplin
Jessie M. Honeyman State Park
If you've never jumped over the edge of a sand dune before, you need to add this campground to your camping bucket list. Your little sand crabs will love digging away, while your older risk takers will be thrilled to leap over the end of a dune and come sailing down feet first into the warm sand.
Camper's Tip: You get the added pop of color from blooming pink rhododendrons in Spring, and all the huckleberries and blackberries you can pick in Fall.
Location: US Hwy 101, 3 miles South of Florence
Address: 84505 Hwy 101 South, Florence, Or 97439
Cabins: No
Yurts: 10 ($44-$54/night)
Nehalem Bay State Park
If the mesmerizing sunsets and excellent wildlife sighting opportunities weren't enough, this park features an airstrip that offers fly-in camping to thrill even the youngest aviator.
Camper's Tip: Keep an eye out for special signs marking spots where shorebirds may be nesting. A lucky opportunity to get to see them, but also important not to disturb these protected species.
Location: Off US Hwy 101, 3 miles South of Manzanita Junction
Address: 9500 Sandpiper Ln., Nehalem
Cabins: No
Yurts: 18 ($44-$54/night)
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Central Oregon
Crescent Lake
For a more rustic experience, check out the yurts at Crescent Lake Campground. There are several other lakes nearby to discover, and if you're still itching for the comfort of a resort feel, just across the dam is Crescent Lake Resort. They have a host of supplies and equipment available.
Camper's Tip: There's even a restaurant that's open on weekends if you don't feel like cooking.
Location: US Hwy 58, 18 miles East of Crescent
Address: 23250 Crescent Lake Hwy, Crescent, Or 97733
Cabins: 21 deluxe at the resort ($10-$250/night)
Yurts: 3 ($30-$40/night)
LaPine State Park
In the winter LaPine is like camping in the perfect Christmas card, with snow-covered pine trees and some of the best ski spots in the area. In the summer, it's a forest of rich-smelling pine trees where hiking trails, wilderness, and high-mountain lakes greet you at every turn.
Camper's Tip: Here you can also meet "Big Red", Oregon's largest ponderosa pine.
Location: Off US Hwy 97, 15 miles Southwest of Madras
Address: 15800 State Recreation Rd., La Pine, Or 97739
Cabins: 10 ($44-$54/night for rustic, $86-$96/night for deluxe)
Yurts: No
Lake Creek Lodge
One of the most peaceful spots in the sublime Metolius River Basin, this lodge is a haven of outdoor charm that comes fully loaded with all you could hope for in a camping retreat. With upscale cabins, a seasonally heated pool, play area, rec room, and even dining options, you get the best of both worlds with this one. P.S. moms and dads, they have an espresso cafe that's open daily.
Camper's Tip: Keep an eye on their Facebook page for extra specials and upcoming events to make your trip even more fun.
Location: Off Hwy 20, 14 miles Northwest of Sisters
Address: 13375 NF-1419, Camp Sherman
Super Deluxe Cabins: 20 ($170-$355/night)
Yurts: No
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Olallie Lake Resort
For those feeling a bit more adventurous, this is a true mountain escape located at the base of Mt. Jefferson. Here you can step foot on the famed Pacific Crest Trail, or just relax and marvel at the abundant wildlife. The mystical beauty of the many lakes, meadows, and hiking trails in this remote area are well worth the drive.
Camper's Tip: This area is about two hours outside of cell phone service. Make sure you bring a good map, and proper supplies. They are only open seasonally so check the website for dates.
Location: Hwy 224, 60 miles Southeast of Estacada
Address: 4 NF-4220, Oregon
Rustic Cabins: 10 ($65-$100/night)
Yurts: 2 ($100-$110/night)
Tumalo State Park
From golfing to fishing, hiking to biking, skiing to snowboarding, rafting to floating the river, any manner of outdoor recreation awaits you here. Or just go for the quiet and the chance to see trout hunt for bugs, deer feeding, and hear a coyote's call, all in a single sunset.
Camper's Tip: The city of Bend is the hub of Central Oregon, and this campground is close enough to get the benefits of all Bend has to offer and far enough away to skip the clamor of the city.
Location: Off US Hwy 20, 5 miles Northwest of Bend
Address: 64120 O. B. Riley Rd.
Cabins: No
Yurts: 7 ($44-$54/night)
photo: Stacy Coplin
Willamette Valley
Champoeg State Heritage Area
If you want to kick it up a notch, pioneer style, then Champoeg is the place to be. The wetlands, forest, and fields along give the feeling of days gone by. On top of that there is a visitors center, two pioneer museums, and a pioneer garden.
Camper's Tip: Check the schedule and join the guided walk to fully explore pioneer life.
Location: Off US Hwy 99W, 7 miles East of Newberg
Address: 7679 Champoeg Rd. NE, St. Paul
Rustic Cabins: 6 ($40-$50/night)
Yurts: 6 ($40-$50/night)
L.L. Stub Stewart State Park
One of the closest to Portland, this may become your new favorite spot for a quick overnight campout. With 25 miles of hiking trails intersecting across hills, forests, streams, and fields with wildflowers, you'll want to keep coming back until you've covered every inch. The trails are great for little feet, and they will have a blast hunting for birds and lizards and wooly bear caterpillars, among other pint-sized creatures. The park also features mountain biking trails, an 18-hole disc golf course, and Discovery Depot, where kids and families can become nature experts.
Camper's Tip: Before tucking in for the night, make your way to the Hilltop Day Use Area for a view of the stars that will take your breath away.
Location: Hwy 47, 10 miles Northwest of Banks
Address: L.L. Stub Stewart State Park, Buxton
Rustic Cabins: 13 ($44/night)
Yurts: No
photo: Stacy Coplin
Sliver Falls State Park
The ultimate park for natural beauty, Silver Falls boast some of the most stunning hiking trails in the state. The prize trail is the Trail of Ten Falls, which includes a waterfall you can actually walk behind! Many of the trails intersect, so they are a great option to choose your own adventure with younger hikers. There are also biking and horseback riding options, as well as an expansive day use area that includes a playground, horseshoe pits, off-leash dog area, and a creek among other fun features.
Camper's Tip: Pets are not allowed on the Trail of Ten Falls for everyone's safety.
Location: Hwy 214, 26 miles East of Salem
Address: 20024 Silver Falls Hwy SE, Sublimity
Rustic Cabins: 14 ($40-$50/night)
Yurts: No
photo: Stacy Coplin
Mt. Hood National Forest
Lost Lake Resort
For a place where you can both amp up your luxury and still watch the kiddos dig in the dirt by your doorstep, this is an amazing mountain resort to explore. Lots of hiking trails, a fishing dock, and a boat launch right on crystal clear Lost Lake. You'll be so happy you found it.
Camper's Tip: Tell your little fishing buddies the tale of Walter, the (rumored) 50 pound trout who lurks at the bottom and pops up to steal lures and tempt you into fishing for "the one that got away."
Location: Off US Hwy 26, 32 miles Northeast of Rhododendron
Address: 9000 Lost Lake Rd., Hood River, Or 97031
Cabins: 7 ($65-$190/night, not including additional pet fee)
Yurts: 13 ($60-$75/night, not including additional pet fee)
Mt. Hood Village RV Resort
This corner of the mountain features all the standard beauty of a mountain cabin retreat, plus a golf course, miniature golf, rock climbing, and even an alpine slide.
Camper's Tip: Be sure to check out their calendar and time your visit with their yearly Huckleberry Festival or Salmon-Mushroom Festival for an extra treat to your visit.
Location: US Hwy 26, 5 miles West of Rhododendron
Address: 65000 US-26, Welches
Deluxe Cabins: Yes (Call for rates)
Yurts: Yes (Call for rates)
Where are your favorite yurts? Let us know in the comments below!
— Stacy Coplin