My crystal ball sees a large swath of power outages from the Gulf coast to the DelMarVa peninsula.
agree. The two brightsides here - The storm is riding a cold front, so high temps are only supposed to be 70ish tomorrow and Friday which will let us open windows and not need AC, and all our power lines are buried and we are less than a mile from the substation, so we usually are among the first to get power back.
This morning I pulled my generator out of the barn.
Over 100 pulls on the starter cord and it will not start. Took the carburetor apart. Cleaned jet and very dirty bowl and replaced gaskets.
Another 100 pulls and still won’t start. $#%#$#@#!!!
I’m exhausted and guess I’ll be without power for awhile.
This is really my own fault. I bought it right after Opal in 1997.
It’s always been quite reliable but I haven’t tested it recently (and by recent I mean the past X* years).
*Means old people’s years which is always a long time but one thinks was not that long ago.