zorro
Severe ice storm here in west texas last weekend sent trees falling on power lines and power poles breaking in half or falling. Without power for 3 days, we were the lucky ones to get power back quickly. Didn't even see the sun for seven days. Ever think of buying a generator? I am considering it now.
6 Answers
jhharlan
JDB
We haven't been out of power for that long in quite some time. Usually ours comes back on in a day. With that said the winters are getting worse, I'm in the middle of putting together a PTO driven generator. I've considered many options from the small portable generators up to whole house generators. Whole house are nice you don't have to be there to start them, but they are quite expensive. The most complaint's I've heard about PTO generators are , You take away a tractor, If its that bad I won't be using a tractor. You have to unhook equipment from a tractor and hook up the generator, I can do that in bout 3 minutes, most tractors big or small have quick hitches now. If its that bad and I have to get out I can hook the snow blower up and clean the lane out in 1/2 an hour. The house will survive that long and only drop a few degrees in temperate. and finally Its one less engine to take care of. Just my thoughts if you have this option. By the way Its going to be a 10 kw going on a 23 horse John Deere subcompact utility tractor 
flip those two levers to hook and unhook,
| 10 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
country bumpkin
I haven't experienced it myself, but Scotland is being battered with rain and gusts of wind as high as 140 mph. There are still approx 32,000 without electricity since yesterday.
Thursday night the gusts of wind were above 90 mph in our area and I ventured outside to take the clothes off the line because I thought I heard rain. It wasn't rain, but pea size hail. Pea size hail blowing sideways HURTS when slapping against my face and hands during hurricane force winds. LOL
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/551093/UK-weather-Scotland-140mph-winds
| 10 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
The grass stays green all year long?? Wow...hot spot.
Ducky
robertgrist
I have lived years without electric power in my youth. Then when I moved to a place that most folk would consider a summer cottage without electricity it didn't take long to get electric lights set up. An ongoing dependency on electric power wherein you have nothing to do without electric power but twiddle your thumbs is a fast track to thinking the end of the world has come. I like going without electrical power for a few days to see where I might prefer to have some alternative way to pump the water to the kitchen sink if need be....or heat the house. I've seen lots of innovative children born into this marvelous age huddled around campfires toasting marshmallows as part of their get-by-until. But I know the joy of electricity's return wipes away their tears. They would rather forget that they ever had been subject to the dark gloom of a matchless night...till dawn's early light.
....and there they are, all confidant and secure in the extreme rarity of their adventure in powerlessness just recently...tapping their computer on and checking the refrigerator for a cold beer.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Vinny
Loma Preita earthquake California 1989. We lost electricity and gas for 3 days and the following week it was spotty. On and off. You certainly learn real quick how dependent we are on electricity and gas in our daily lives. It was in October, Northern CA is nothing like other parts of the world where temps drop down to below 0 but when you are not used to it, 40 degree nights you think you're going to freeze to death.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
