[Magdalen] Third World Country?

[Molly Wolf]

I have a portable gas generator. Two points to remember : it's very noisy and it requires proper exhaust.  Mine cost about $800 and my clever daughter-in-law set it up with muscle power from the boys.  It will run my computer and Internet, phones, and the fridge.  It's 5000 watts, which is fine for a small house. To use it, I plug heavy-duty extension cords to bring power from the garage into house, to regular extension cords and power bars.  It has a remote start.  

The expensive sort are big standby generators which will cut in when your electric service shuts off.

Molly

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> On Aug 2, 2016, at 2:49 AM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/1/16 10:41 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 8/1/2016 10:03:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> Sorry to  hear about power out and damages. Check Home Depot for better
>> price on  generators. Not "whole House" but I think enough for the basics  -
>> fridge  , tv, computer and small electronics ( not AC for instance)
>> Lynn>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>> Three years ago -
>> 
>> After a series of especially numerous outages with loss of
>> our entire frozen food supply, etc., we marched off to a local
>> dealer and bought a generator for about $2,000.  Then, of
>> course, six months or so passed before we needed it, and
>> it turned out to be a disaster because it was just too difficult
>> for us, both disabled, to haul out and set up.  We couldn't
>> return the generator at that point.
>> 
>> In the end, we gave it to my son-on-law, Neal, who was here
>> with daughter, Wendy, as a reward for clearing and closing
>> out our 2 rental storage units.  Neal is a real athlete, and
>> has no trouble setting it up for the occasional outages they
>> experience in suburban Denver.
>> 
>> So for us, the way to go would be a permanently mounted
>> generator that cuts in automatically with power outage (outrage!).
> 
> Or maybe a neighborhood handyman who is not disabled?  Surely you don't have to do _everything_ yourself?
> 
> Also, do you have a well?  Clearly Charles does, and includes that with the other electrical things, but here we have a Rural Water District, which has its own generator(s) for the well(s), so water is still pumped, even when people don't have electricity for lights, rather like the telephone system, which is also fitted out with a number of generators.  (We have quite a lot of outages in this area, between ice storms, tornadoes, plain electrical storms, tractor-trailers, teen-aged girls driving into power poles, squirrels and copper thieves electrocuting themselves, etc, ranging in duration from minutes to weeks)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sibyl Smirl
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