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Old 02-20-2014, 07:39 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by wa8yxm View Post
Wade, how bad was it (the power outage).. As an Rver (I assume you are an RVer) you should have a genny to keep the router routing and the modem modeming and the food in the fridge cold and perhaps the house furnace powered.

Me.. When the lights went out in Detroit (And I still had a house there) I have the needed connections to my Onan to do the job.
We have a 5ver and there is no generator. LP tanks full and batteries charged. We could have moved into the 5ver if we needed to. And I'm a little bit on the prepper side.

The power was off and on, out 2 to 6 hours several times at our house. Others had it worse.

We had 3 sources of heat: Gas space heater in basement; gas stove in kitchen, where we kept a kettle of water steaming; Mr. Buddy style portable heater. We could have lit the fireplace, but fireplaces are inefficient.

Food that required refrigeration could have gone outside or into the garage or the camper fridge but it didn't come to that. The WAP/Router/modem is part of AT&T Uverse which has a 12 hour UPS. Radios and LED lanterns ran on batteries.

Sweet Wife does think a generator is a good idea now, though. And a battery powered TV is on the shopping list, too.
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