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To: ApplegateRanch
We are having some great thunderstorms right now. Lots of noise and light, and not much damage.

I love the rain. I had to get up to enjoy it.

Now if the lights stay on...

Good thing I've got the emergency power going on.

/johnny

111 posted on 05/05/2015 11:38:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
The Merry Minuet
They're rioting in Africa, they're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!
Kingston Trio

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We're just starting (and need badly) a long, gentle soaker that will last, off and on, most of the week. We have 2 "new" 7,000W (continuous, not surge) generators, and an old 5,000 W. We also have a UPS for the computer, and another for the DVR & TV; also a rechargeable LED flashlight that plugs in, and turns on if the power fails.

The old one was used a lot in Oregon, until we finally convinced the power company that we really were building a home.

The "new" ones are nearly 20 years old, but one is still in the shipping carton, and the other one was used for the first time 4 years ago, when we lost power for nearly a week from a forest fire. I also used it last year to run the electric log splitter on the back & beyond the garden.

We bought the new ones because we were constantly losing power for up to an hour or so in Oregon, with the lines running next to pavement, or buried; and the location here is much more remote, with the line mostly through heavy woods, and much severer weather---but we rarely lose power.

112 posted on 05/06/2015 8:45:44 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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