North eastern Ice storm!!

[Norm reynolds]

I have a question what are you guys runing your generators on I have a Generac 7550 EXL surge 13000.00 watt IT runs on gas so what I have beeen doing is store 4 5 gal cans of gas every 6 months I use the gas In the one of the cars and refill the cans with new gas I have been playing around with trying to hook up a natural gas set up for this generator but have not found a system that will work
the generator it self is great it says it will run 10.5 hours on 6 gal of gas it will power most of the house with no problems it just if you are out of power for a week or to I think runing on gas will end up leaveing high and dry

[Donutblue]

Jason, we got a good deal of black ice down here in Dutchess on the Taconic Parkway. I have New York State gas and electric so needless to say I use a generator frequently. I have a 10000 watt generator that I keep in my walk out basement - hook up is outside a short distance under my deck. I keep gas in it with Stabil, however about every 3 months I take it outside, run it for a while with a load on it. --

[kwhizz]

Here's a unit that runs off Natural Gas and kicks on automatically when your normal Power is lost.....Pretty Cool

http://www.microturbine.com/

Ken

[Mr70]

Were you picking sand out of your toes while you typed that.

[Salvatore]

Hey Jason, those pictures would make a nice calendar of your region.

[Tarrytown SS427s]

I went to Maine last Friday on rt 7 through Troy over to rt 9 and rt 101 through southern VT and NH. Troy had no power and therefore no traffic lights which was a real mess! further east was ever more of a mess, it looked like a bomb went off, with trees draped over the roads and lines down everywhere. Coming home last night on 87 I passed 4 fleets of electrical service vehicles. A state of emergency was declared and they have crews coming in from as far away as Ohio. Power isn't expected to be back to everybody in NH until Thursday or Friday. It really goes to show how brittle our power systems can be, as it doesn't take much to cause big problems!
Steve

[kwhizz]

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Were you picking sand out of your toes while you typed that.

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[Salvatore]

And putting catsup on hot dogs and mustard on "soft" pretzels!

[JimL78]

Jason, my daughter called the power company this morning to get a restoration time and they said it would be Thursday at 8 AM. We were not happy about that. It was quite a surprise that around 12:30 the power went back on on my side of the mountain. Because we had the generator going my daughter and son-in-law spent a lot of time here where it was comfortable. I have a diesel unit that runs the whole house and the electric heated apartment. Sure used a lot of diesel but it was well worth it. I hope they get you on pretty soon. The guys who were working on our section were from Elmira. With all the trees on the wires they did not have an easy job.
Jim

[kwhizz]

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And putting catsup on hot dogs and mustard on "soft" pretzels!

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