Fun! Fun! Fun!

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

We WERE going to go back in service tomorrow, not any more.

The storm knocked the power out. The power company said we will not be back on line until tomorrow evening at 8PM

We are running a few things at the house off of the truck APU. We have a wood stove for heat upstairs and we bought a kerosene heater for the basement to keep pipes from freezing.

We have a gas stove to cook but no hot water.

What FUN!!

greg334 · Feb 21, 2011

layoutshooter said:
We have a gas stove to cook but no hot water.

OK.... should this be a moment to ponder something bigger than any of us or should we comment on it?

OK I'll take the latter ...

If you have a stove to cook on, then you have hot water.

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

greg334 said:
OK.... should this be a moment to ponder something bigger than any of us or should we comment on it?

OK I'll take the latter ...

If you have a stove to cook on, then you have hot water.

LOL!! YEAH, I can heat water. I meant that the water heater was not working so no showers.

greg334 · Feb 21, 2011

Again was that a comment we are supposed to ponder?

skyraider · Feb 21, 2011

sponge it, showers r 4 wkends only

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

I am pondering why you would want to ponder this Greg?

Yep, Every Sat without fail!

chefdennis · Feb 21, 2011

I feel for you Joe!! Power went out at our Toledo Abode about 3 am..I wouldn't have known it until i woke up to the sound of the aux generator runnin...its small and keeps the frig and freezier and furnace runnin...But when I got up, I found tree branches down in the drive and my wife and i wre out there at 4 am moving them off the drive so we could get her rental car and my van out of the drive....yeap it was Fun Fun Fun...

scottm4211 · Feb 21, 2011

I don't believe in karma but who was it that posted about hating hot weather earlier today?

jk good luck

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

scottm4211 said:
I don't believe in karma but who was it that posted about hating hot weather earlier today?

jk good luck

Yep, don't like hot weather. I would not mind living in a tent but the wife has different ideas!

purgoose10 · Feb 21, 2011

Fun, Fun, Fun sorry I'm sitting here in front of my shop, 75degrees, sun bright, breeze blowing and planning on my new truck.

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

purgoose10 said:
Fun, Fun, Fun sorry I'm sitting here in front of my shop, 75degrees, sun bright, breeze blowing and planning on my new truck.

Yeah, I used to live down there. Used to sit outside and fight off rattle snakes while we enjoyed the nice weather!!

Could not use my pond in the summer either, cotton mouths.

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

Fun update!!

The power company is now projecting that our power will not be back on until Thursday at 8PM. We had NOT planned for a week off. This is starting to suck.

With any luck they got it wrong and they can get it going sooner.

greg334 · Feb 21, 2011

Pull the main fuses, shut the water off and send some air through it and go.

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

greg334 said:
Pull the main fuses, shut the water off and send some air through it and go.

How do you send air through it? Shutting down the fuses would shut down the freezer. It is full. I gotta look into one of those automatic generator dohickeys.

purgoose10 · Feb 21, 2011

layoutshooter said:
Yeah, I used to live down there. Used to sit outside and fight off rattle snakes while we enjoyed the nice weather!! Could not use my pond in the summer either, cotton mouths.

You don't bother them, they don't bother you. I live close to the Edisto River, great hunting just don't sleep on the ground. Lot's of Gators. That's how my dog got his name. He some how knows exactly where their at.

layoutshooter · Feb 21, 2011

purgoose10 said:
You don't bother them, they don't bother you. I live close to the Edisto River, great hunting just don't sleep on the ground. Lot's of Gators. That's how my dog got his name. He some how knows exactly where their at.

I used to live up north of there, between Pickens and Clemson. I lived near 6 mile Mountain, otherwise known as the rattlesnake capitol of South Carolina.

I hunted with a club in the "Low Country" one season. First day it was 98 degrees. We killed 18 rattlers, no deer and I got chiggers. Yeah, GREAT FUN!!

3 dogs passed out from the heat too.

greg334 · Feb 22, 2011

layoutshooter said:
How do you send air through it? Shutting down the fuses would shut down the freezer. It is full. I gotta look into one of those automatic generator dohickeys.

You have a truck, so I assume you have an air hose and maybe some water hose. Drain the water tank, open up a couple valves and stick the air hose on one of the faucets.

If the freezer is full, then it is good for at least a few days it not a week in this weather. This morning it was 10 when I got up, we won't have a thaw for a good week or two from what I can see, so got coolers? Stick the stuff in the garage in coolers and there is no problem, right?

In the great 2003 blackout, our fridge and freezer was good in the heat for two days then started to have inside temps rise enough to get it on the generator.

layoutshooter · Feb 22, 2011

I am dealing with a classic "catch 22" Greg. If you have a working solution I am all ears.

IF I disconnect the truck from the house the sump pump goes down and my basement floods, again. I can do that and the water based back up system cuts in. If I shut the water off the water based sump system does not work, and the basement floods, again. If I let the system run, it gets cold and the pipes freeze the basement flood.

Battery based back up only run for a few hours. They can run longer if the back up is connected to a charger but the electricity is out.

A week without a sump pump will find 3 to 5 feet of water in the basement, if not more.

I don't have a good answer. I am running out of wood too, that I can fix.

greg334 · Feb 22, 2011

Well crap Joe, you didn't mention the sump pump, that put this in the "enjoy the time off" category.

layoutshooter · Feb 22, 2011

greg334 said:
Well crap Joe, you didn't mention the sump pump, that put this in the "enjoy the time off" category.

Yeah, I forgot about it because as long as I am here, it will work. When it's working I forget about it. My bad!

I am going out in a bit to work on the truck. I stopped working on the refrigerator when the power went out. I can get all but the trim work done. I don't do trim.