out of contact for a while

[Jason Weiser]

Will be out of contact for a while due to recent storms in DC area. Might last as long as a week. No power or water. Will be ok.

[mikeo80]

Will be out of contact for a while due to recent storms in DC area. Might last as long as a week. No power or water. Will be ok.

Open the gun ports, run out the 32 pounders, loaded with grape shot. Send the Marines to the fighting tops...

All kidding aside...

Stay safe and well

My $0.02

Mike

[Webstral]

I hope all goes well.

[Tegyrius]

"Derecho" - Spanish for "I shoulda bought that generator last week."

- C.

[Raellus]

Stay safe and try to think of this as your own little T2K-esque moment.

[Jason Weiser]

Stay safe and try to think of this as your own little T2K-esque moment.

You're lucky I am writing from a "family freindly" public library! I'd have some choice words for that. And it's my birthday no less! Ah well. They are making great progress on getting the lights back on, but my new job was out of juice as well, so I am getting a preview of EMP. It gets scary dark at night around here these days.

[Targan]

Happy birthday Jason!

[Adm.Lee]

Lost my juice in Columbus Friday night to Sunday night, and again for 4 hours yesterday evening. I don't enjoy my T2k moments like this, but at least I had plenty to read. Trying to convince my sons to just sit still and read, and no, there is no way to play Minecraft today again, now that was tough.

[Graebarde]

Will be out of contact for a while due to recent storms in DC area. Might last as long as a week. No power or water. Will be ok.

Wishing you the best Bro.

[mikeo80]

Have not heard from Jason in a while. Hope you are ok out there!

But his story did bring a question to my mind.

We joked with Jason about a generator.

I have thought about one for some time, but I am of two minds. (at least )

Argument one: If I lose power, having a generator could keep my fridge and freezer going, at least in the short term. It would depend on how much gasoline I had squrrelled away.

Argument two: If I lose power, do I want others who did NOT prepare to know I have a generator, gasoline, and that I am using said generator to insure longer shelf life of my cold goods.

I am curious to know what you all think. Do you have generators Would you use them OR be wary of using them due to various and sundry mis-begotten souls who might target you BECAUSE you have an operating generator

My $0.02

Mike

[Tegyrius]

I had that very conversation with my wife last night, Mike. I fear she's a bit more of a believer in humanity's essential goodness than I am and doesn't really think that being the only prepared household in the neighborhood would make us a target. Right now, I think the benefits of being able to run refrigeration, comms, and a trickle of hot water and hot food may be outweighed by the potential for locusts to descend. If we weren't in suburbia, I'd see the issue differently, though I'd still want to build some sort of sound-dampening enclosure for the equipment (maybe a buried pit, too, providing I could arrange adequate drainage).

- C.

[weswood]

Have not heard from Jason in a while. Hope you are ok out there!

But his story did bring a question to my mind.

We joked with Jason about a generator.

I have thought about one for some time, but I am of two minds. (at least )

Argument one: If I lose power, having a generator could keep my fridge and freezer going, at least in the short term. It would depend on how much gasoline I had squrrelled away.

Argument two: If I lose power, do I want others who did NOT prepare to know I have a generator, gasoline, and that I am using said generator to insure longer shelf life of my cold goods.

I am curious to know what you all think. Do you have generators Would you use them OR be wary of using them due to various and sundry mis-begotten souls who might target you BECAUSE you have an operating generator

My $0.02

Mike

Get one if you have frequent outages. If your neighbors are the grasshopper type and don't prepare and don't help each other, F*&k' m. If they're the kind of neighbors who either prepare or leave town until power is restored, or they're the kind of neighbors that help each other and watch out for each other, let them have some fridge space for thier spoilable medicines.

[weswood]

My birthday is at the end of August, my sister's is the end of September. Somehow hurricanes always wait until this time frame to hit the Gulf Coast. Katrina hit New Orleans on the weekend of my birthday, Rita hit Houston a month later on my sister's. Ike tore up the gulf coast between mine and my sister's birthday.

And, and.... When I got my @$$ tore up by a pack of rottweillers, it was on my sister's birthday. End of summer has some major suckage in my life

[Targan]

And, and.... When I got my @$$ tore up by a pack of rottweillers...

Wait, what There's got to be one helluva story there waiting to be told.

[pmulcahy11b]

I don't actually know how to use a civilian generator. I would assume that you unhook the appliances you're trying to power from the wall and plug them into the generator

BTW, I just got a dehumidifier for the front of the house, and it's strong enough to remove some of the humidity from the rear as well. Reduces humidity in the front of the house from 30-50%, and 10-20% in the rear. Really makes it more comfortable!