Thread: after almost a week of no power, I'm back

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I bought my generator on October 10, 1988 while living in the boonies outside of Albany, NY after one of those "fun" storms where the trees make a mess of the power systems. We were without power for ~10 days and my sump pump wouldn't run - can you say a basement swimming pool until I got it up and running?? Luckily I had a walkout basement so it really was only an ankle deep wading pool - but of course it flooded the furnace to the tune of $150

yup.. we used pool water for the toilets too... because of the rain tires on the truck, we had to wait for the plows b4 we could get water... so we melted snow for the morning coffee, and we broke out the camping perculator for all week...

were probably going to get a generator.. gonna be a hard winter by the looks of things now.. the rental was just shy of $150 for 4 days.. a generator of the same size as we rented isn't much more to buy

we have been out of power 1 other time when it was like 3 or 4 days.. that was when we used our 1,500 watt ( running current ) inverter to run the fridge, it is a 2,000 watt surge power inverter.. could only let it cycle once, as if you didn't rev the car up when you turned the inverter on, it would stall the car from the alternator load.... but I think after this, were buying a generator.