Remembering the blackout

[mikeschn]

Remember the black out we had last August?

Some 50 million people were without electricity in at least 8 states...

Were you caught in the dark? What have you done to prepare? Does your teardrop have anything to do with getting prepared? How many days can you exist without electricity in your state, if it happens again?

Just wondering...

Mike...

[Shrug53]

In our new house we are having the main electrical box wired up to a Guardian Standby Generator. If the power goes off, the gennie will kick on. It added over $3000.00 to the price of the house, but it is worth it. A few hours without AC here and you would be in bad shape. For example it is expected to hit 110 here today.

[mikeschn]

With the Baja Benroy we can cook, and we have light. If we had a power failure in the winter time we have heat in the Baja Benroy too!

But we are not prepared for Arizona heat... good thing it doesn't typically get that hot in Michigan!!!

Mike...

[tdthinker]

It effected half are town but not out where I live. If it ever did happen I would go to my grandparents house a quarter a mile down the road where there is a generator in the basement that can run the holl house. There is plenty of canned food in the cubbereds and basement root celler so I am fine here.

[Larwyn]

Remember the black out we had last August?

How many days can you exist without electricity in your state, if it happens again?

Just wondering...

Mike...

Currently living in my 5th wheel trailer. With the generator air conditionier and charging the battery, I recon I could last as long gasoline and propane are available.

[asianflava]

I didn't get hit with the big blackout but, when I was living in North Carolina we had a hurricane come in. I was out of power for 10 days. At first it was no big deal, after a while the heat and humidity got to me so I stayed at my girlfriend's. She only lost power the night of the storm. I put a battery powered aereator on my fish tank and left it. All the fish and coral survived.

We also had backup generators (propane powered) at work. People would go there and get ice and take showers.

As far as prep, it will probably the same as hurricane season in FL. Get water, buy batteries, and break out the camping stuff.

[beverlyt]

When we were hit by a bad storm about 5 years ago, we were without electricity for 1 week.

We had a built-in propane stove in the old trailer out back...but had to climb over several downed oak trees to get to it.

We now have a big Coleman generator to kick into service if we need electricity. We have a stove out in the teardrop we can bring in the house. For water we have both a well and "city" water.

For heat, we have a large ventless fireplace in the living room...will heat most of the house if need be.

In hot weather, we have lots of fans....some 12 volt.
And of course assorted camping gear... Coleman shower, porta-potti... lanterns... as long at the fuels are available!

I think we could get by pretty good for awhile...and probably truly appreciate what gear we have!




Bev

[tdthinker]

Are town gerts hit every year, it looks like your pics.

[Larry Messaros]

In hot weather, we have lots of fans....some 12 volt.



Bev

Hey Bev, it looks like you really don't have to worry about the fans!

Sorry, I couldn't resist.