Might have to break out the chains

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muleman RIP

Gone But Not Forgotten
Seems like mother nature is giving Christmas a hard time in alot of areas this year. Seen theyhad a tornado down by Tommy and big blizzards in the midwest. We are under a severe ice storm warning for today and tonight. Might have to chain up the truck if it gets too bad. I am going to run the generator a little this morning and make sure I have extra gas on hand. I used some of it up for splitting wood the past couple of weeks. I don't mind snow but ice is a pain. I want to be prepared in case we end up with a multi day outage. Merry Christmas to all.</p>
 
We went through the "mother of all ice storms" back in '98. I hear you loud and clear..give me 2 feet of snow anyday. </p>


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Merry Christmas .... and all the best luck with the weather....</p>


[quote user="muleman"] I don't mind snow but ice is a pain. I want to be prepared in case we end up with a multi day outage. Merry Christmas to all.[/quote]</p>
 
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We went through the "mother of all ice storms" back in '98. I hear you loud and clear..give me 2 feet of snow anyday. </p>


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We had a 5 day outage in 97. That is when I bought my current generator. Ended up loaning it out to my relative in Watertown when you had the bad one in 98. It has served me well. Ran it last winter when we lost power at -23 one night. It does not take long to lose barn waterers and other pipes at those temps. I have a setup to run my main panel with the 220 volt plug on it. I turn off my main to safeguard the utility workers and run select heavy users in the house one at a time. this allows me to run the whole place as long as I watch what is on at the same time. In 97 I moved it around in my old suburban to 7 different houses and kept everyone in heat and water and kept their food from spoiling so it paid for itself the first time I used it. I like knowing I can keep the heat going more than fixing frozen stuff or cleaning out freezers.</p>
 
I am impressed by your preparations, Muleman--as are your neighbours, I am sure! As for us, we have never had a connection to any mains, so we have always needed to depend upon our own resources to ensure that the power stays on--pretty important when the temp starts hitting -50F or even lower, as it occasionally does in these parts. So we have triple redundancies built into the system. And, I have to say, we are more dependable than Yukon Electric, who are always losing their power for one reason or another.</p>


May you, and all, be safe and warm and merry this Christmas day!</p>
 
While we don't have the snow and ice down here on the gulf coast (this time) we are prepared for power outages also. With 3 major hurricanes in 3 years many have generators and prepare each year. We are also pre-wired to the house. A few foolish ones bought the generators with the FEMA money only to sell them on Craigs list for half price the next month. Now I have two of them just in case. If I had the funds I would of bought a dozen of them to sell after the next hurricane.</p>


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Prepare for the worst, be thankful when it is good.</p>
 
yea the pawn shops down here are full of generators them people buy them for one storm and then sell them for the cash. i got my generatpor for katrina and i lucked out and fema ended up paying for it .it's a nice john deere one and i would never think of selling it. i'm like you i would rather have a few generators rather than one. a person could get rich if they bought a hundred or so of them and just layed them up in the mini storage til the next storm and then have a huge sale.</p>
 
[quote user="tommy 20/69"]a person could get rich if they bought a hundred or so of them and just layed them up in the mini storage til the next storm and then have a huge sale. [/quote]</p>


I have 7 portable generators. I don't sell them when a storm comes. I keep one and send the rest on to neighbors and friends that don't have them. Most do, but we have some elderly widows and such in the neighborhood that don't have the resources, knowledge or strength to get/maintain/operate a generator so I do it for them. I have 3 that are new and I need to get ready (add oil, fuel, test-run). I plan on doing that later today as we too are getting a decent amount of ice which is a good indicator that power fails may occur.</p>


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everyone on my street has a generator thats the only thing that breaks the silence at night when the powers out is the hummin of the generators.another thing is all them people who had them generators wired to their homes that ran off the natural gas are switchin them over to propane and getting them huge tanks . the ones with the natural gas burning gens was out of power due to the parish shutting off lines due to trees crushin houses and lines so whoever was down line of the break was out of luck right now i have one generator and my dad has two plus i got one that isn't running that i got out the dump.i wanna get me a miller bobcat welding machine with the 10,000 watt generator built in those are nice but you can't find a second hand one anyplace.</p>


one day i was thinkin of opening a "storm store" and sell just things for storms that way you can get everything you need at one store and not have to worrie about going all over town.</p>
 
Well it must been a sign from above as we lost power for over 3 hours today. I wheeled the generator into the skid loader and brought it arouind and fired it up so I could watch the Giants game. What a joke as they got stomped bad. Oh well at least the wife had her internet and left me alone to watch the fiasco. Thing fired right up on the second pull and kept the heat on so all was good. Calling for 5+ inches of snow tonight. Has to be better than the ice we got Friday night.</p>
 
......... there is gotto be something out there to be a huntin' in that snow >>> maybeBigfoot or something like that >>>>></p>


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Muzzle loader ran out last week but it is still in in Pa. along with late archery. Freezers are full so no need for venison right now. Just sit back and feed and watch them for the rest of the winter. might go for more ear corn this week to reload feeder.</p>
 
Our deer huntingcomes to a endon the last day of January.Hoghunting is all year round .</p>


..... two guns </p>
 
Must be the past 2 years have put a big dent in the coyote population around here. Have not seen one all fall and no tracks either. Usually see tracks with the first snow but none yet. Have not seen anybody out running the dogs yet either.</p>
 
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