Posted: 1/30/2009 5:11:36 AM EDT
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Well I am officially ready for summer. I am now on day three without eletric and phone. This morning is the first day I could get a cell phone signal at my house since it started. So here I am posting on Arfcom through the grace of iPhone.
Other than that everything is good. How did everyone else fair? Probably some of you from this area are still cut off. Oh, and I had a possible sighting of the elusive Arfcomer. A red Durango with a LaRue bumper sticker, NRA sticker and a Marine Corp sticker heading to Wally World. |
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I had kind of a rough week.
Couple days ago I pull a car out of a ditch. I back up to get around the freshly freed car then my truck falls into the ditch across the road and the front tire/fender gets caught on a mailbox post (log) sticking out of the ground. We cut the log and pulled the truck out with another truck...not any real bad damage to the truck, thankfully. Yesterday... Vibration from snowy icy roads knocks my front driveshaft u-joint shield loose on way home from work. It ends up beating the hell out of the underside of truck (had to drive it home) and cuts into fuel line. Lose half a tank of fuel... Takes 3 hours of laying in snowy diesel fuel to get everything up and running again. Put good size hole in brand new Carhartt coat as well. Seen better weeks... |
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Well that was a long, cold 87 hours without power.
I'd say that we were fortunate, in that we have a wood stove and the temperature inside never went below 57. Friday night was a bitch, 1 damn degree outside. I was able to get the gas water heater to run off a 350 watt inverter ran by my truck, so we did have hot water a couple times. Oh, good times. 
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Our power was only out 10 hours. Other areas of the county are still out.
- Generators are good one of the greatest inventions ever...especially for refrigerators, fish tanks, and space heaters - Traditional fireplace without any blowers or fans on kept the upstairs a constant 67* - Water heater runs on natural gas is a big plus Going to move the generator to the deck. Figure out a way to make it automatically kick in when the power goes out. Then hook up vital circuits to the generator (refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, maybe washing machine if it has enough juice, a couple lights (indoor & outdoor)....tell me what missed. Generator is going to be moved to a more secure locale..I'm thinking the deck. It's outside, out of site, can be chained to the rails or bolted to the decking. More to come.... |
| I went out Saturday and bought a generator talked to lineman near the house when I got back said the power would be on by nightfall. So I left the generator boxed up. It is going back to the store today. I would love to keep it but with work slow and money tight it has to go back. I guess I lucked out or someone decide to cut me a break. I hope everyone gets their power back soon. |
| The bad part for my family was that we are not on city water. We have a well that runs with an electric pump. We had no electricity, so we also had not running water. For six days. Never take running water for granted. Having the power out wouldn't be too bad if we had running water. |
