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Post by Davian » Sun. Oct. 28, 2012 8:50 pm

They make an awesome plastic bladder you can buy for your tub that is food-grade. Holds around 60 gallons of water and it costs around $30...awesome buy if you see them.

Your water heater will have a good amount of potable water in it too FWIW.

Personally, I have a decent portable generator, a good amount of fuel for it that I rotate regularly. I have probably 3-4 weeks of shelf-stable food for my family and enough wood and coal for a solid season of heating among other things.

I'm not a kook, I just like to be prepared.


 
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Post by 009to090 » Sun. Oct. 28, 2012 9:16 pm

mozz wrote:North Carolina

• Storm tide and surge: 2 to 4 feet of surge is possible on top of tides.

Storm tide forecast for Duck Pier, NC is 7-8 feet.

• Wind: 35 to 45 mph with gusts up to 60 mph.
We already got 50mph winds at Kill Devil hills, NC.
Nasty stuff.
DVC500 is lit and pumping out warm heat

 
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Post by Richard S. » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 12:53 am

echos67 wrote:
Yanche, that is exactly what I would like to do with my generator, back feed the entire house panel.
Once utility power is lost I want to be able to shut off the main and breakers inside the house panel and start the generator and hit the disconnect sending generator power to the house panel then turning on the breakers for where I want to feed the power like hot water for a shower ect.

What size generator and wire did you use to do this and did you use a single circuit of 220 output from the generator to feed the house panel ? Just thinking of gathering parts so I can get mine done soon.
We have an old 220 line in the old garage and soon to be master bedroom we are using right now that was there for a dryer. We're going to set some kind of deal up outside in the future. We have a really long extension cord by brother had been using for a mig welder.

If you want to do it right they have a mechanical system for the panel that prevents both breakers from being on at once. Another thing I saw was some kind of sensor you wrapped around the wire from the street. It had an alarm to tell you when the power came back on.

http://www.interlockkit.com/

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Post by Short Bus » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 3:28 am

I installed one of those interlocks at my dad's house, I really like them, over the real expensive double thow 200 amp switch.

 
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Post by freetown fred » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 7:33 am

If Red Sun in the Morning still means anything--we could be in trouble here :(

 
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Post by I'm On Fire » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 8:09 am

When I look up in the sky I see grey. It's not raining yet but it is windy. I'm kind of hoping it just stays like this.

I also feel weird. Like I should be at work. I even got up at my normal time. But I don't have work since they closed for the day.


 
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Post by Dann757 » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 9:17 am

Windy as hell here, rain is loud on the building but doesn't seem to be torrential. Front driveway is usually an indicator of the ground being saturated, no puddles yet. I was kind of surprised to wake up to power still being on. Heard a limb hit hard someplace, it woke me up. What I can see out the windows seems intact. Forecast is for winds to increase through the day today.

Freakin storm is as big as the whole east coast from the satellite photo.

Al Gore will probably come out from under his rock on this :D

 
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Post by GoodProphets » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 9:27 am

I'm On Fire wrote:When I look up in the sky I see grey. It's not raining yet but it is windy. I'm kind of hoping it just stays like this.

I also feel weird. Like I should be at work. I even got up at my normal time. But I don't have work since they closed for the day.
It be coming.

We have had steady rain since yesterday morning, just increasing.
Winds are actually mild, with a few gusts.

The worst of it right now is Outer Banks NC
It stretches from NC to Nova Scotia

3pm they say is when the winds will increase, and the bulk of it will be here, continuing until 3am.
That will be the max.

Note: it is the south southeast of the eye that is the bad part.

Michigan and Illinois is supposed to get the cold front lake effect pretty bad too.
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Post by I'm On Fire » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 9:32 am

Starting to rain here. It's not bad right now. Just some drizzle. Windy still. I think I'm going to go hit the shower while I still have power and hot water. After the power goes out it's no hot water so it'll be cold showers for the two+ weeks until JCP&L decides they want to earn their pay and fix the power. They charge a high enough premium for their electric and scream bloody murder when your sacrifice to them is late but don't give a rat's ass about restoring it quickly.

 
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Post by blrman07 » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 10:23 am

Just got a recorded message from Pennsylvania Power and Light. The message said to prepare for power outages lasting up to a week or more and basically they will get to it when they get to it after the storm passes through.

We have a slight drizzle and maybe about a 10 MPH wind right now. 10:22 Monday 10-29 in Girardville Pa.

 
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Post by SteveZee » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 10:27 am

Dann757 wrote:Windy as hell here, rain is loud on the building but doesn't seem to be torrential. Front driveway is usually an indicator of the ground being saturated, no puddles yet. I was kind of surprised to wake up to power still being on. Heard a limb hit hard someplace, it woke me up. What I can see out the windows seems intact. Forecast is for winds to increase through the day today.

Freakin storm is as big as the whole east coast from the satellite photo.

Al Gore will probably come out from under his rock on this :D
Those sat pix newbie posted are awesome! It looks like that Jupiter storm eye you see in most pictures. Really is massive scale for a storm this late in the season. Nothing but a waiting game now so best of luck to all of my coal burning pals.

 
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Post by Dennis » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 10:40 am

I was down at Ocean View De. to clean up and winterize my camper and bring back my boat. On saturday morning the wind started and sat, night steady 30 mph. I lift 7am and the water was already at my trailer. I don't expect it to survive this storm. Iv'e been there since 1996 and never seen anything close to the severity of this storm. This is a pic. from the front of my trailer,only 20 yrds off the bay.

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Post by freetown fred » Mon. Oct. 29, 2012 10:42 am

I hope she makes it through her Dennis.


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