Posted on 09/11/2017 1:47:17 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
First the squalls, then the swelter.
Nearly a million Miami-area residents lacking electricity and air conditioning are bracing for oppressively hot weather on the heels of Hurricane Irma.
Almost three-quarters of Florida Power and Light’s 1.1 million customers in Miami-Dade County have no power, and officials are warning it could be weeks before electricity is restored, according to a Sun-Sentinel report.
And temperatures are set to soar: Sweltering air and humidity are expected to broil Miami with a heat index as high as 108 degrees over the next four days, according to AccuWeather...
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Once after a hurricane hit where I lived, I told folks as we cleared fallen limbs “You found out what the word ‘storm’ means - now you get to find out what the word ‘tropical’ means.”
My roommate and I already had these big box fans so we soaked ourselves with damp towels and let the fans blow on us at night. The wind provided the power for the fans.
Maybe worst part of it
I saw this story and checked the temp. N.FL, 71 here. Woke up cool. We’re wearing light jackets. The one bright spot, is that it’s cool. I hope it stays like this until we get the power back.
Amen
More weather hyperbole
As if there hasn’t been enough
Definitely the suckiest part of a Hurricane.
During the storm there is almost that adrenaline rush from the anticipation of the storm......afterwards, it turns into sheer boredom.
Depends on if you run the generator constantly instead of cycling it on and off.
I burned through mine in a couple days mostly keeping the generator running for a fridge, window unit ac, fans and some lights thinking the power would be back on in a couple days. It wasn't...
Having been raised in Lousiana during the early 50s sans A/C (back then only rich folks had that), yup, it’s hot.
Damned hot.
But somehow, we survived.
And actually had fun.
This is not to say that it’s comfortable, only that humans have survived well in that climate for centuries. They’ll survive now, and will welcome the return of electricity. (Electricity, you know, that stuff invented by...wait for it...those damed European white guys raised in one of the cultures that is equal to all other cultures.)
Back then, Southern housing was ventilated, now it’s insulated.
If the AC goes out your home turns into a sauna.
My daddy and a nations air guard general who was his pal rushed to the coast to fetch me after Katrina
We then drove all over the coast looking
My dad had his AGC card telling them he had heavy equipment coming which he did to help the clean up
It was like an atomic bomb and the smell of death
Animals in that putrid heat
Serious mississippi August heat
Freighters up a block or two inland
Giant LNG and fuel oil tanks too just moved inland
And crater like destruction
Everything flattened from wind and surge
It’s flat in Gulfport and Long Beach etc
Pink remains blobs up in trees
Pets I reckoned
The occasional corpse covered in a sheet with a national guardsman guarding the body
Images I’ll never forget
Nor the night before only a few miles inland with the roar of that wind and trees snapping and cars being moved around
The quiet eye with stars
My parents about died that night worrying why they left me there at camp
My aunt and uncle were close by and my uncle rode it out in Long Beach on rich ave one block off 90
He almost died
Two big live oaks blocked the floating house from being swept out
Camille came right up out of forming in the Yuke
And bam
There it was and at night of course
Anyhow that’s my hurricane story I never forgot it
After Camille sorry
We will get through.
1 gas station opened from oviedo to lithia. 80 miles. No stores open except 2 convenience. No fast food. No grocery. No restaurants. 27 to 17 to 98.nada
I thought it would cool down in Florida since running AC causes global warming.
My genny runs on propane. Bout 1/2 gallon per hour. 11KW.
The Honda eu2000i is pretty good on fuel, and fairly quiet. Well - none of them are quiet - but some are a lot less loud put it that way. The Yamaha equivalent is supposed to be good as well. I’d think with relatively light loads like that 20 gallons running 24/7 should last a week.
I had to look it up, since you brought it up. The Honda is rated at 2000 watts, but only for 30 minutes. Continuous duty - 1600 watts. They are probably all similarly rated. That will run a fridge, and some lights, or a coffee maker, or TV, etc, though not all at once.
At 1/4 power consumption (400 watts) the fuel tank supposedly lasts 8.1 hours. It holds just shy of 1 gallon (.95) At full rated power, the tank lasts 3.4 hours. So my guesstimate of a week isn’t too far off, and that would be running 24/7, which really shouldn’t be necessary.
I bought a boat style tank and hose assembly, with a custom CNC machined cap, that extends the range time considerably, though have never had to use that.
Not so much as Florida, whose population has exploded in the past 60 years, going from a population of less than 3 million in 1950 to over 20 million today. I was raised in Tennessee and few people had air conditioning. When I was 16, I slept outside on the back porch for the whole summer because we had no A/C.
But not every state has a mild winter climate and long, oppressively hot and muggy summer climate.
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