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

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The video they kept showing, what a mess You do check the color of the snow, right
Glad you were prepared and safe.
Ken

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

Matt, It's hard to believe that only about 150 miles seperate us and all we got was 1" of wet snow.

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.

Originally Posted by chevy 37

Matt, It's hard to believe that only about 150 miles seperate us and all we got was 1" of wet snow.

yup. the way it happened just didn't make sense.. our other house in Ovid, where my dad works out of. he said there wasn't much there ither, but that's pretty close to Auburn anyway..... I do notice that it turns into spring type weather a lot quicker up there than down here. and the 1st frost up there was 2 weeks after our first