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12-24-2023, 12:48 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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I live inside the city limits so I have city water that doesn't stop operating, I have natural gas for hot water and heating the house. I have a 6500 watt generator for the fan on my furnace, fridge, freezer, etc.
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12-24-2023, 12:51 PM | #3 | |
It was not a fair catch
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Did the same thing with water. Started saving water in Oct so we could flush the toilet in December. We had a floor heater that always worked. Gravity heater? Now, if we lose elect our fireplace has a battery backup to get it to fire. |
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12-24-2023, 12:52 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: May 2005
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The wind sucks ass today.
I put an electric space heater in our well pit, and have a gas option if we lose power for a long time. If things get really hairy I've got a large tractor PTO driven generator that can power the entire farm. Haven't had to bust it out for years and years. |
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12-24-2023, 12:53 PM | #5 | |
It was not a fair catch
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12-24-2023, 12:59 PM | #6 |
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12-24-2023, 01:00 PM | #7 |
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Oz
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We moved into our home Thanksgiving four years ago. The first 2 years, our electricity went out 3 times, including the Thursday night barn burner chiefs vs chargers in December 2021, which I had to go find someplace to watch the game. It happened again that winter in a February blizzard. So, I bought a portable generator. So, now I'm prepared. Wouldn't you know it, the electricity has not gone out since that last time, nearly 2 years ago.
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12-24-2023, 01:20 PM | #8 |
Embrace the love
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Joplin
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I have a question, if I may, about filling your bathtub with water when the electricity goes out. Why do you do that?
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12-24-2023, 01:25 PM | #9 |
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12-24-2023, 01:26 PM | #10 | |
Embrace the love
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Joplin
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I remember that mother****er. It was horrible. My boss let me use a generatorc and I lived in a 2-story duplex in the outer edge of an apartment complex. The system's heating unit was in a little storage closet in the fenced back porch section of my duplex. The streets were dark except the lights in my house aand all you could hear was my generator. |
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12-24-2023, 01:26 PM | #11 |
Born to Ride
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: NWA
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One of the very first things I did when I bought my current house (All Electric)
was purchase a 500 Gallon Propane tank and a whole house generator. I had heard my area was notorious for power outages. I moved into my home in June of 2020. When we moved in our utility was busy cutting trees back from the lines. Boy did people bitch about that! But in the nearly 3 1/2 years I lived here not once has my generator ran to support my house. I almost hope power would go out just so I can justify to my wife the installation of the Generator and Propane tank! |
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12-24-2023, 01:27 PM | #12 |
"Think BOOM!"
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 33.675° N 106.475° W
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Not applicable. My house has underground power lines. I've never lost power.
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12-24-2023, 01:27 PM | #13 |
Embrace the love
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Joplin
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OK that makes sense. I couldn't envision a scenario at my house why I would need to do that, but I get the city supply so I don't have to deal with well water pumps.
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12-24-2023, 01:28 PM | #14 | |
Sometimes it's black and white
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: California
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The key thing I want, I have a split mini AC in my bedroom/office and if the power goes out during a heat wave, I can run just the bedroom AC off the generator. |
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12-24-2023, 01:29 PM | #15 | |
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