rick81721
Lothar
pffft that was a tropical storm. tho I did see one tree down blocking the road on today's ride!
Hurricane thread(aka kitchen appliances I can't afford thread)
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pffft that was a tropical storm. tho I did see one tree down blocking the road on today's ride!
Semantics. 1.3 million people in NJ lost power, and more importantly, it's hot in my house.
Paul H
Fearless OOS Poser
rick81721
Lothar
We had a nice whole-house natural gas generator at our old house in Montgomery. Anyone feel free to steal it - tho you'll need a small forklift to get it out of there.
Paul H
Fearless OOS Poser
serviceguy
Well-Known Member
from the OOS thread.
A huge branch fell off one of the trees while I was covering the hutch of the Mitsubishi Eclipse that had been perforated earlier by a ‘wooden projectile’...it snapped the power line to the garage and bashed the roof of the Mitsubishi in, while missing me by a few inches. After hearing an ominous noise I just had the time to look up and this huge branch was crashing inches away from my head and into the car. I have the feeling that my dad was looking after me on this one, many thanks were given.
The whole street is without power and it appears it will be for a few days, several hundred yards of line have been downed by fallen trees and a transformer caught fire. I'm gutted for the car, it was my permanently delayed project...debating with myself if I should find a new shell to move all the goodies (possibly a gsx) or just sell all the stuff and let it go (I have several replacement parts for it including a number of turbos all in new/rebuilt condition). Unfortunately no roof replacement among the spares...at least I should finally get a proper panel in the garage, the wife can't delay that project anymore now.
A huge branch fell off one of the trees while I was covering the hutch of the Mitsubishi Eclipse that had been perforated earlier by a ‘wooden projectile’...it snapped the power line to the garage and bashed the roof of the Mitsubishi in, while missing me by a few inches. After hearing an ominous noise I just had the time to look up and this huge branch was crashing inches away from my head and into the car. I have the feeling that my dad was looking after me on this one, many thanks were given.
The whole street is without power and it appears it will be for a few days, several hundred yards of line have been downed by fallen trees and a transformer caught fire. I'm gutted for the car, it was my permanently delayed project...debating with myself if I should find a new shell to move all the goodies (possibly a gsx) or just sell all the stuff and let it go (I have several replacement parts for it including a number of turbos all in new/rebuilt condition). Unfortunately no roof replacement among the spares...at least I should finally get a proper panel in the garage, the wife can't delay that project anymore now.
A Potted Plant
Honorary Sod
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BPaze
Well-Known Member
I would if I could
A Potted Plant
Honorary Sod
serviceguy
Well-Known Member
We had power. Everything was good. Houses to the left were good. Houses to the right had partial power. I lent my generator to the neighbor.
around 10:30pm they shut us all down. I assumed they were addressing the issue. 18 hours later, I should go get the generator
around 10:30pm they shut us all down. I assumed they were addressing the issue. 18 hours later, I should go get the generator
Juggernaut
Master of the Metaphor
5 hours of manually cutting and dragging limbs out to the curb. Still no power. Why manually you ask? Because I decided 5 years ago to go with an electric for the small jobs and I hadn’t started the gas one in almost a decade.... for the sake of full disclosure, yes... I took the 100’ extension cord out, plugged it in to both the outlet and the saw and attempted to cut the limbs..... while the power is out!!!!!!!! I’m, a stupid! 🤪
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Dingo
Well-Known Member
This is why I preach "drain the friggin tank and carb" No one listens.
Then I get the phone call, "it won't start". Did you...? "NO"
ErikAtTheW
Member
Generators go under the category of “non-lendable”!!!!
Dingo
Well-Known Member
Add power washers to that list.
Strugglebus
Well-Known Member
30 hrs in. Generator is doing well. I have neighbors with a new born that left until power is restored so I’m running this thing all night long
Stillz
Well-Known Member
Where on Sussex is this?
About 30 hours in with no power here. Entire neighborhood is a cacophony of generators. JCPL is showing an estimated repair time of 11pm tonight, but I've been fooled by them during previous outages and I'm not falling for it again. Anything before the end of next week and I'll consider myself pleasantly surprised.