Posted on 02/02/2006 1:19:10 PM PST by djf
I fell asleep about 7:15 and just woke up.
My power is now out.
Arrrgh....
OH, no! Sorry. What are you going to do? The wireless cable still works?
Not really a problem, just inconvenient.
I got a generator, I have an inverter, 3 pretty high CCA batteries there fully charged, an ~20,000 btu propane heater and propane lights and stoves, and enough propane and gas to last a couple months if I budget it good.
But it's still a pain.
Thank God though nothin has fallen on the house (Yet)!!
And I'm on dialup using (one of) my laptops, the company I work at retired the series of laptops they were using so I got tons of batteries.
Sounds like you are really well-prepared. Incredible! Smart thing to do! You might have a bunch of FReepers coming out to your house to watch the Superbowl tomorrow if we all lose power! ;) (Just kidding, LOL!)
Nice of you to hire midgets-of-color to hold up your deck railing.
The wind is really mixed right now. Violent gusts followed by periods of almost dead calm.
I think if the power had lasted another hour or so, it wouldn't have gone out.
Getting shorts periods of pounding rain, though!
Usually, when the power goes out, we're one of the last who get it turned back on. We're on a sort of stub, and there's only about a hundred affected, so they take care of everyone else first. So I learned my lesson awhile back.
TV just said Bangor recorded a wind gust of 98mph!
Whoa! 98mph winds! They just closed the 520 bridge. I drove over the bridge once during a storm! Waves splashing over the bridge hitting the car! Very unnerving. Glad to be home, relatively safe and sound.
Well, I put on some sweats, powered up my inverter, turned on my lights and tv, put an old fashioned percolator on my camping stove.
The coffee is ok.
Hope the juice comes back on soon.
This cave man stuff is gettin old!
LOL! It's only been a couple hours, hasn't it? LOL!
I powered down the inverter and went to propane. Gotta put a new mantle on one of my propane lights. I use the Century Primus single mantle attachments, they're really handy, just screw em onto a propane bottle and about 100 watt equivalent.
The only bad thing is the screwy regulators they got, a tiny brass fitting with a microscopic hole in it, one of my lights is out of commission because the regulator plugged up.
That's fascinating that someone can be so resourceful! Don't know if it is the eye of the storm or anything, but last time I looked, there was no wind at all! ???
Oly area, still blowing pretty good. We had some impressive gusting earlier. At least 2 trees down here, one is on my parents' roof. It just missed their car, is leaning on the lower part of the roof right outside their bedroom window. Luckily my dad built that house - roof isn't leaking:)
We're in a heavily treed area and have miscellaneous branches down in our yard, nothing big enough to worry about at this time. That could change as we're still getting some good windswells and gusts. Reminds me of high desert wind:)
Here in eastern WA, the summit of Rattlesnake Mountain (3500 ft Hanford weather station) has had sustained winds of 70 and gusts in the 90s, but in Richland we're getting only 20-40 so far..
Good luck over there!
I have around 15 solar batteries and a three kilowatt inverter but in seven years have never actually needed to use them! (other than testing) One of these days...
I think the center of the low is already up in British Columbia, north of Vancouver island.
So what we got now, even though it's gusty at times, is the dregs.
Sorry about the trees down! Every year I expect that to happen. But it hasn't after all these years. I just looked again and the wind seems to be letting up here in Renton. The 100ft Douglas firs are hardly swaying at all.
Not that I am complaining!!! Just something for you to look forward to!
That's true but the Columbia Gorge and the eastern slopes of the Cascades collude to wring every last bit of wind out of a system.
Yep - it's a pretty normal thing for a few to fall, that's how my dad stocks up on firewood each year. In the 27 years they've lived here, they have had 3 trees fall onto buildings. One on the garage about 10 years ago during the big ice storm, one on the wellhouse a few years back and now on the main house. But hey! The flowering cherry didn't break under the weight of the tree!
Hopefully it's settling down - my dad has so many business meetings to go to this next week that he already got up on the roof and took care of the tree. That's my dad:)
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