NWI INGO General Post - Part 14

[jedi]

U live in redneck land where racoons and coyotes live.
If i lived in that area yes i would have a ng genny and a backup gas portable genny as well. You are not in an area nipsco considered you a priority as its too few of you per square mile. So the nipsco crews will get to u when they get to you.

Their job, and i use to intern for them back in college, is to send the crews where they can restore the largeest num of power of people. If they get to a site and only 10 folks will get power but the crew at site b has 100 people without power and that other cree needs help the first crew is going to drop site a and go to site b.

 

[lonehoosier]

Ive got a genny, but dont tend to break that out unless i have to. Nipsco had us up and running in an hour n half so it worked out fairly well. Definitely was nice that the temps were rising outside and didnt need the furnace

Same here. Only comes on after 4 hour without power. Only run it enough to charge batteries, run furnace or a/c and fridge.

 

[jedi]

Battery backup sump.
Small propane heaters can deal with frozen pipes along with letting water continue to run.

But as klb eluded its a level of insurance.
You only need basic liablity to drive your car.
Yet many of us have more coverage then that cause we want that peace of mind. For me having had to deal with both gas whole house genny and the portable heaters route.

North of us30 im not investing in genny anymore.

 

[lonehoosier]

Battery backup sump.
Small propane heaters can deal with frozen pipes along with letting water continue to run.

But as klb eluded its a level of insurance.
You only need basic liablity to drive your car.
Yet many of us have more coverage then that cause we want that peace of mind. For me having had to deal with both gas whole house genny and the portable heaters route.

North of us30 im not investing in genny anymore.

If you have an active sump pump you’d be lucky to have a hour on those battery. I’m not try to argue/change your think but there is a hole lot more to consider. Also are you going to keep flushing your toilet to keep that from freezing too? Do you know how to make that toilet run with out wasting to much water? There’s a lot more to all this but to each their own.

 

[1775usmarine]

Now Jedi you can't involve the raccoons in all this. They have been at your place enjoying the lights and warmth and of course your food and drink...

We have moved so many of them to your place it is like a new community of little fury black masked critters .

A raccoon safe space.

 

[CTC B4Z]

​I was unaware the poles at Deja Vu could catch on fire.

Mines on fire Everytime I'm there

 

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[Snapdragon]

Mines on fire Everytime I'm there

They make a cream for that.

 

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[CTC B4Z]

Very original

 

[Snapdragon]

There's a cream for that.

ADDED: Scooped by Snap! .... great minds and all.

 

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[Ballstater98]

Indiana senate committee approves Sunday booze sales bills | abc7chicago.com

 

[melensdad]

Indiana senate committee approves Sunday booze sales bills | abc7chicago.com

Liquor sales on Sunday! What is the world coming to? Pretty soon the Amish will drive cars, Baptists will dance in public and Jedi will marry a raccoon! It will be a gay raccoon. But it will be a raccoon never the less.

 

[2A_Tom]

Jedi doth protest to much! He is actually a raccoon lover.

 

[repeter1977]

Anecdotal story for you guys ... Last week, towards the end of the super cold snap, we get a call for help. It seems that this lady (I'm guessing single mom) goes to visit family for about a week. She decides to save some money so she shuts off her heat for the 4-5 days she will be gone. Same week that we had sub-zero lows and single digit highs. She gets back and turns her heat back on. Within the hour, all the ceilings in her basement start collapsing under a cascade of water. She couldn't understand what happened. We tried to explain it to her but I am not sure she got it. Had to tell her about her cracked toilets too. Btw, she did save some money on heating over the week.

I've found people that grew up down south, or always lived in an apartment don't understand about frozen pipes. Schools have had tremendous damage and they should have at least one that knew better up north.

 

[aclark]

Indiana senate committee approves Sunday booze sales bills | abc7chicago.com

Liquor sales on Sunday! What is the world coming to? Pretty soon the Amish will drive cars, Baptists will dance in public and Jedi will marry a raccoon! It will be a gay raccoon. But it will be a raccoon never the less.

Funny how people have been asking for sunday sales and cold beer sales for years, but it was never a priority for congress or something that was looked at. But now that the IABR and the grocery lobby have come to their own agreement the bill has made it out of committee. I read an article on it, and the speaker or the committee chair said that the IABR and grocery agreement had nothing to do with the bill going to the floor.

 

[2A_Tom]

Where is leadeye when you need him?

Well, I'll try...

Follow the money.

 

[actaeon277]

that's what I get for sleeping.

I was going to say, "They have a shot for that", but looks like you guys (and girls) already got it.

 

[actaeon277]

And about battery powered sumps..
Yes, they don't last very long.

A generator will be better in the long run.

Even better, a natural gas powered, with auto start and switch.