Simply random stuff

[Petr Kropotkin]

Hey, if you thought really hard, maybe you could've stopped that rain! No rain! No Rain!

 

[Rhinojack]

Yeah, electricity went during that video, didn't come back till 5am. Electric company was sawing up trees next door that fell on the lines all night till 5am. As a result, and in addition to our house getting very warm...I couldn't sleep.

Years ago during Hurricane Allen, 1980, we went through the storm unscathed. Then during clean-up, a neighbor was cutting his trees and branches fell onto electric wires and broke them cutting off electricity to half of our block. Took four days to get it repaired. My mother left and stayed at an air-conditioned hotel.

 

[JohnN]

https://nowtoronto.com/news/fake-lo...-its-got-canadians-applauding-its-creativity/

 

[mandrix]

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Glad y'all made it unscathed.
I've got trees still that look like that. Plus many trees small and large laying on the ground, a huuuge poplar I'll likely never clean up.
CAT 3 Hurricane wrecked my property. The real witch is the hanging limbs up high I can't get to.

 

[barfle]

Fortunately in my area, we don't get winds that high. We had a "de recho" wind storm in Virginia that knocked down a few trees. Of course, every time it rained, we lost power for two or three days. And every time I went halibut fishing in Alaska, I'd lose a freezerful.

 

[GOS]

The local weather outlet has upgraded the winds from last night to 80-110 mph specifically in my corner of the county. Still, they don't think there were any tornadoes. That's some serious wind. Me and a guy who is going to help cut the remaining broken stuff from our tree tops went for a ride just now, and there are still blocks that are not passable, as there are power lines across the road. There are crews all over town cleaning up trees, branches and working on power lines/poles. It's warm again, 90 degrees. These guys are toast I'm sure. Probably no sleep.

 

[Sonik Wiz]

The local weather outlet has upgraded the winds from last night to 80-110 mph specifically in my corner of the county. Still, they don't think there were any tornadoes. That's some serious wind. Me and a guy who is going to help cut the remaining broken stuff from our tree tops went for a ride just now, and there are still blocks that are not passable, as there are power lines across the road. There are crews all over town cleaning up trees, branches and working on power lines/poles. It's warm again, 90 degrees. These guys are toast I'm sure. Probably no sleep.

I remember the flood that hit you a few years ago. This time I guess you were one of the luckier ones.

 

[GOS]

I remember the flood that hit you a few years ago. This time I guess you were one of the luckier ones.

Oh yeah, very lucky. I was having a bit of deja vu though. We had torrential rains with this storm, though only 2 inches. Regardless, with the power being out, my sump pump filled up and spilled onto my basement floor. Only enough to get some carpets wet, no more than that. Once the power came on, the water drained within 2 minutes. Turned on some fans, picked up the rugs and I'm good.

 

[GOS]

OK, this is an absolute true story from last night. Our very popular drive in theater was showing the original Twister movie and literally that storm hit in the middle of the movie and it blew down all the wooden fencing along the theater. The power went down, and the screens went black. You can't make this shit up man.

 

[Bill B]

Oh yeah, very lucky. I was having a bit of deja vu though. We had torrential rains with this storm, though only 2 inches. Regardless, with the power being out, my sump pump filled up and spilled onto my basement floor. Only enough to get some carpets wet, no more than that. Once the power came on, the water drained within 2 minutes. Turned on some fans, picked up the rugs and I'm good.

Go get a generator that can handle one sump pump and one refrigerator. It’s not that expensive and you will never be sorry you bought it.

 

[mandrix]

My 5500W generator will handle about everything but the A/C, though sometimes I have to cut some stuff off when it gags when running the well pump.
My wife's O2 machine is very picky about low voltage.

 

[Bill B]

My 5500W generator will handle about everything but the A/C, though sometimes I have to cut some stuff off when it gags when running the well pump.
My wife's O2 machine is very picky about low voltage.

Mine is a 3550W and I can keep two refrigerators and two sump pumps covered. Definitely not the central AC system.

 

[cbmmm3]

Seriously, there were sizeable branches (more like trunks) all over our yard and in back. Zero damage. Yet, our neighbors (2 of them anyway) have tree's or big chucks of trees on top of their roof. This was straight line 75mph winds, no tornadoes.

holy shit Gene ! Glad to hear you and fam - and house - are okay. Is that the tornado siren wailing in the video ?

 

[mandrix]

Mine is a 3550W and I can keep two refrigerators and two sump pumps covered. Definitely not the central AC system.

I major f'd up one time running the generator and for some stupid reason flipped the breakers for the A/C on. There were sparks jumping all around the breaker box, and I had to file down the buss bar to get all the pits and particles removed.

 

[Bill B]

I major f'd up one time running the generator and for some stupid reason flipped the breakers for the A/C on. There were sparks jumping all around the breaker box, and I had to file down the buss bar to get all the pits and particles removed.

I use a more foolproof method. ….four extension cords run in through a window and manually connected to each appliance. I’ve always been afraid to mess with the box and take a chance on f-ing something else up.

 

[mandrix]

I use a more foolproof method. ….four extension cords run in through a window and manually connected to each appliance. I’ve always been afraid to mess with the box and take a chance on f-ing something else up.

A guy makes one mistake...lol.
I have an exterior 240v receptacle hooked to the mains (separate from the house box) and use a 10 gauge extension cord I made from the generator 240v out to the receptacle.
The generator is housed inside a platform/cabinet I built for it raised a foot off the ground. All sides are removable via wing nuts. Survived a CAT 3 hurricane.

 

[4-earredwonder]

'Sopranos' doc reveals 'truth' about the ending, 'painful' moments for James Gandolfini​

https://www.usatoday.com/story/ente...-documentary-anniversary-reunion/74046060007/

 

[ar surround]

My 5500W generator will handle about everything but the A/C, though sometimes I have to cut some stuff off when it gags when running the well pump.
My wife's O2 machine is very picky about low voltage.

We stopped messing around after Isaias took out the power for five days while we were out of town. $600 of pandemic priced food wasted. So we had a Generac whole house backup generator installed.

Since then it has run for all of 2 hours in the middle of the night.

 

[cbmmm3]

After some ice storms , derechos and car - pole crashes with power being out from a few hours to 4 days, I bought a generator and its recommended expensive transfer panel. That was 7 years ago.
Ive never used it since I bought it !! No outages since.

 

[mandrix]

After some ice storms , derechos and car - pole crashes with power being out from a few hours to 4 days, I bought a generator and its recommended expensive transfer panel. That was 7 years ago.
Ive never used it since I bought it !! No outages since.

I really should have a transfer switch. I would have to pay for a permit to install it. It's expensive enough to buy one, as you say.
I have an older mains breaker box outside separate from the internal house box. The breaker failed and I had to scramble to find anything that would fit locally. I found one that fit but is reversed from the original...in other words flipping the switch down is "on" and up is "off".
I had to schedule the power company to disconnect from the power pole so I could install it.
When the inspector looked at it he was satisfied, didn't care it was "upside down" so to speak. But anywho I have to have a generator to run my wife's Oxygen machine when the power is out.