Hurricane helena

[armalitesheepdog]

Keep an eye on Amazon, I can power my entire house with AC and electric dryer running with this one, $899 last Prime Day (I bought a few).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G7GGFV6?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_p13n-bia-ontype-mam-t3_k0_1_5&amp=&crid=3IYBOLCRWKJQG&amp=&sprefix=13000

Get a soft start on your a/c and your current one will likely run it, the 9500 super quiet predator ran my entire last house (but we had gas water heater and heat).

Me too. I just never tried it. I have a small house and A/C just worried it may be too much

 

[armalitesheepdog]

I have that exact same model! Just need to have the transfer switch put in.

Totally worth it

 

[JTKelly]

Hickory tree fell on my garage today. Smashed the roof in.

 

[singlesix]

Indy AES area has 55K customers without power, so based on the last outage of this size it'll be 4 days for some people.

Plan to take food to my daughter's house, I didn't stock up based on forecast so not much food in the fridge.

I'll spend the day at local coffee shop with my laptop catching up on some projects and evening listening to 3 audio books I haven't started yet.

Meals? I guess I have go into survival mode and go to a restaurant.

 

[bwframe]

That's my plan also, if ours goes out. When our power was out last April, I waited till the next morning to crank on the generator and both freezers and the fridge were fine.

I can't remember what I paid for my cheap generator a dozen years ago or so, but it was on sale at one of the online clearance outfits, ahead of an east coast hurricane. Seemed like the time to buy.

That generator sat in the box for five years. Finally took it out of the box and gassed it up during an 18 hour outage. At 19 hours, the power came back on.

Frozen meats were not thawed, but getting to be of concern after 19-20 hours here. Key is to keep the doors closed on a full fridge or freezer.

Filling all empty freezer and fridge space with water bottles keeps your running appliances from cycling so much. Keeps the contents cold longer when the appliance turns into a cooler in a power outage.

 

[KittySlayer]

Planned trip to suburbs outside Louisville Saturday afternoon. Any issues I should be aware of from the storm?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

No damage or power outage at my house but as I sit here at 5 a.m., I can hear someone running a chainsaw somewhere back in the neighborhood behind me, so I have to assume it was critical for them. May take a drive through after it gets light and have a look around.