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Let's rev up for backup plans! Generators? Solar? Food storage? Psychotherapy???? What in the world would you do? Is everyone ready with a brush or a chisel? Do I sound negative? I don't mean to by any means, only want to be prepared (not that I am prepared). Soon I will be looking into buying a generator and have a start on my food storage we just depleted. Batteries and some fuel around, a few paint brushes and substrates, not to mention I am trying to not take my health for granted. A bike ride on a cool night with my pooch running along for a good start.
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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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my paint brushes dont need electric..mobile sign shop has 6.5KW generator...if i need one!!!
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Si, I knew you would come up with an answer, more civilized than I thought. Gee, I know a lot of folks with hot air to keep things going too! Well, you live in a warm place that's a start and wheels where you want to go! Old Paint, way to go.I haven't been painting enough lately, since I got spoiled on the vinyl, but I am getting the crave to get back to the hand painting anyway-rather sick of looking at vinyl finally.
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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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Hi, Deb! We've had a 12kw propane generator for years here in Lost Prairie. We do lose power in the winter, so we really do need it. I can't ever remember the pantry not being full. It's a large walk-in room with shelves from floor to ceiling packed with large tins, packaged noodles, row after row of soups, rice, flour, condiments, candles, herbal remedies and everything else in the world. It was a fun place when Lat and I were little kids. We were always trying to find where the candy was hidden. Mom's parents were teens in wartime England so they taught her to always keep the fridge, freezer and pantry filled. I guess it's just a habit, but now it seems to be a popular fad. We could get along without the vinyl plotters in town, if we had to. All of us paint, so maybe no-power for a month would be an eye opener for the vinyl shops in town.
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If we were to lose electicity for more than a day, then the problem is more wide spread than my little town. If it comes to a national disaster, I for one will saddle my horses and head for the hills. I'll take my guns and my four piece fly rod and eat quite well. I don't think I'll pack my brushes, who is going to want signs in such a time? People will be freaking out and the country will be in turmoil. Just my toughts on what this old cowboy will do.
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For a good idea, read the book "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven, a popular sci-fi writer. It's about how we cope (or don't) after a massive asteroid hits just off of Catalina Island, CA. Riveting book, I couldn't put it down!!
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Lectric lights go out; Candlelight will see you through. But when you got a heartache; There ain't nothing you can co.... That from Van Morrisson covering a Sam Cooke tune(I think.)
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Good one Santo! I guess it is best to be a little bit prepared, which is why it is good to have a wood stove, plenty of canned food and some Kahlua on hand at all times...... !
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I got a mess of guns and stuff, I'll just find out who does have power and go run them out of their place and take it over. I'm mean like that.
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Hey Jimmy, if it does go off, I'll come over and pick you up. I'll need somebody to help me tote all my guns and help run 'em off. HA!HA!
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Those are great responses....and... when we take off in the wild blue yonder on the packed four leggers, Kahlua and water in napsacks,..... it may be for a while because I meant "what would you do if it was a long term global outage????" LONG TERM-such as a couple months?? guess I will have to work as hard as Robin Hood!
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It's common for the power to be out for a week or two at a time during winter storms. When this happens, the gas stations are not pumping, so you can't go anywhere. The markets often have large BBQ's (free feeds) to get rid of the freezer meats, because it's often cheaper to give it away than pay that huge fuel bill for the generators. Often goods don't get trucked in because they don't like coming where they might get stuck for a couple weeks.
We have a small 5500 w generator that we use as we need it. We fire it up for a few hours to run water and charge the freezer. Sometimes we run the shop on generator power, but I'm scared to run the computer on it.
There is this wonderful quiet when the power is out. Everything feels different. I recognise that turning everything off is not the same as having NO current or electromagnetic fields. We enjoy our wood heat and gas stove and oil lamps.
It's hard to letter by oil lamp when you're over fifty!
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Rick....get a UPS power supply...then you can run your computer and plotter without worrying about the generator! ( the battery absorbs power spikes and dips.) Really dsigned to give you time to shut down if the power goes off!
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Sounds like huricain season around these parts.keeping food and watered stored is part of life around the gulf coast! living 30 minutes from town( in the woods), it seems that we loose our power often. 8kw Honda Generates keeps the lights on and the well pump going! no electricity no water....no water.... who is thinking about cutting vinyl or painting signs.
we have a wood stove, can our own vegies from the Garden and the chickens for eggs.
i think we take for granted frozen procceded food, and the ability to run down to the Winn Dixie to pick up a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk.
Just my 2 sents.....oh Si, battery pack is good to have no matter what!.....save many pulled out hair.worth every penny!
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Will any UPS work or jut the real expensive ones? Are ther some spec's or words on the box that I need to look for? I'd like to be able to run my computer off generator power and know that it's safe.Should this question be posted by itself on the BB?
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i have power outages often and bought 2 ups. 1 for the computer 1 for the plotter. best money i have spent. i have always had a generator or 2. one time sevaral years ago we had an ice storm and everyone was out of power one of my neighbors saw the lights on at my house and called and wanted to know why i had power and no one else did? i told her i paid my bill. everyone in the neighborhood came over to eatch tv.
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Hopefully, all of the Californians have their 3 day supply of "earthquake" stuff. Mine are getting slowly depleted and need to be refreshed but I do have 3 LARGE rubbermaid-type containers out behind my daughter's playhouse way in the backyard. Extra clothes, shoes, batteries, candles, medications, rubber gloves, radio, etc, etc, etc. We seem to have a lot of smaller earthquakes here in the desert...with any luck, they are taking the pressure off the San Andreas and not building it up. No one seems to know.
If the power goes out, please, please let it be in the fall or winter. Last summer, the power was out for 7 hours one day. it was 118º. No air conditioning, no fans. It gets stuffy and hard to breathe real quick.
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I'll always have heat and lights, I'm so full of "natural gas" that if I could bottle it up, I'd have enough to burn for years.....HA!HA!
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