Posted on 06/18/2017 2:32:12 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
Joe has been talking about this for a week.
Sounds like the people I know who plan an annual golf outing every year for September in Myrtle Beach.
You and a lot of other people.
Go to Wimberly and enjoy your family.
Better start it up and run it every month or so. Make sure you have fresh gas and stabilizer in the gas.
What to do? <<
Go on to Wimberly. You'll be just fine. Even if it turns into a cat 2/3 hurricane, by the time it ever reached that far inland, it'll be a rain maker if anything at all. Chances of this hitting Wimberly, probably about <10%.
Native Texan/Houstonian here...trust me on this.
Then it'll blow my house away in Mobile, sigh.
Pack up your stuff and move to Wimberly, it's a beautiful place. lol
Just had a one hour outage 3 hours ago here. Ran the 24kw genset I have. Burning 9 year old diesel fuel just fine.
LOLOLOL!!
We got our generator several years ago, after Ike knocked our power out for THREE long weeks.
We’ve loved every second of being generator owners....out here in middle of no whare ;-)
I hope we’ll get some rain, but not any winds...an old tree branch came down on power lines near the house. We used our generator. The branch was hollow...came down on a car and it broke the windshield. The owner just had it replaced on Tuesday.
Were you able to get enough fuel for 3 weeks, or did you just run it for a few hours per day?
Yup. I know Wimberly.
I retired from Texas Instruments, in Texas.
90% chance of nothing but heat and maybe fire until November here in socal. Sigh.
(Ahem)
I just saw this, posted today:
Warning Signs Point To Major Earthquake On San Andreas Fault
My son lives in Sierra Madre.
Family has been in s. Fla since 1923. Been through a few storms. I have every weather platform in gulf and Atlantic I could find. Dad once told me to check the atmospheric pressure and the storm will hit at the lowest. Worked for me so far. FYI
Oh, no....during Ike, we didn’t get our DIESEL generator until one week into being without power. We were luckily able to get enough diesel to get us through the next two weeks.
We then QUICKLY ordered a natural gas generator, that is hooked up to the natural gas line in our area. We haven’t regretted this purchase once. It automatically switches over, when one of the very frequent power outages happen, in our area.
What type generator do you have?
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