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Hi Jim, It has been a tough year all around. I will add that our week without AC and electric still was not equal to the constant barrage of heat you experienced with the fires you fought that devastated your part of the world.
And now another storm and flooding! I hope you and your family get the well deserved break you deserve.
Gil
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Jeez Louise is right Jim .... oh no, not again, and again & again & again ... etc.
Hope you didn't suffer any flood damage this time around, and all family and friends are fine, with the waters definitely receding!!!
Just two sleepless nights for us Daniel, we were lucky. The water didn't even get into my workshop this time. And being winter here, we had the wood fire to keep us warm. So many others weren't as lucky -
https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/residents-mop-up-the-mess-after-wild-weather-rips-through-nsw/news-story/6aeb724969f34313b75c75e69d8690ce
Its been a wild 2020 :(
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Jeez Louise is right Jim .... oh no, not again, and again & again & again ... etc.
Hope you didn't suffer any flood damage this time around, and all family and friends are fine, with the waters definitely receding!!!
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So sorry to read this thread Gil, thoughts are with yourself, Simone and family.
I must say, 2020 so far has been a real bastard of a year.
We just got our power back on yesterday after a wild weekend here. Most of the South Coast was evacuated from flooding from the intense rain that we copped over 48 hours. This is the third wild storm that we have had this year after the bushfires on NYE, along with COVID....Jeez Louise please give us a break!
Hope you have a better week now Gil.
P.s after NYE I bought two large Honda gennys and have 300 litres of fuel stored for them. I ain't ever going through something like that again ill prepared. We have used the gennys three times already.
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The level of discomfort from heat and high humidity was the most difficult to deal with.
Since I could not work at my business, or anything else requiring a web connection, I spent time doing yard work and storm clean up. Usually when I go out and break a big sweat, I can come back in and cool down. For the last week I would come in from a stint in the outdoors and be in a house as warm and humid as outside. A half hour after coming in, I'm still sweating bullets. I drank a lot of water and Gatorade. After this, it felt almost foreign to be in a cooler and dryer house all day.
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glad you made it through fairly unscathed Gil, that it is a bit of a tough spot.
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It's amazing how dependent we are on electricity. Water too, I've been without both. Being without water is worse.
Glad yours is back.
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That burner is what we call a yabby boiler.
Glad to hear you have power back, 6 days is a pain, we did 4 a few years back, that's when I was glad I had a decent generator.
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https://youtu.be/GOjF1IXxrH8
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This was our dinner table about the time the grill broke.
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Here is the back up plan....
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Day 6 at 14:00 still no juice.
A linemen's truck from Portland Maine was parked across our driveway exit. I had a quick visit with them. They were wrapping up final inspections and said they expected to throw the switch in about 10 minutes.
Day 6 at 14:12.......
WE GOT THE POWER......!!!!
Now to put away the cords and generator.
And.... catch up on a weeks laundry, dishes, and things.
Yesterday our grill jettisoned the coupling at the gas bottle. Luckily flow shut down immediately so no explosions. The screw collar coupling broke and popped. Went to HD this morning and got a replacement. Soon we are off to visit someone who has had power back for a couple days.
Thanks for all the support. It means a lot. Oppressive heat and humidity takes its toll on this good old boy!
Gil
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Hang in there, Gil! If i can help you with anything, let me know. Glad nobody was injured, and I hope they get your power back up soon.
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Hope you get your power on soon and you can back to a normal life.
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Sorry to hear your experiencing this Gil. We've been so busy I haven't been keeping up with the news so didn't know it had hit so hard. Glad you've got the generator and enough gas to keep it running. Hope things change for the better soon.
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Hang in there Gil!
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Bonjour Gil,
Such a situation is so uncommon on 2020, Internet is not the most imprtant thing to live correctly, hopefully, you have a generator for the minimum as your freezer for example.
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Day 4 and still no juice.
Limited interweb only on phones.
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We also have city water so no problem for us. Most of the families in our town have well water and need electricity to pump it. Might make them wish they had a gasoline powered Domestic pumping set up or a Rider-Ericsson hot air pumping engine.
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When things get back to a semblance of normal someday, remember what you have gone thru now and use this experience to prepare for a worse situation.
I find it sobering to see how fast our civilization goes into retrograde.
About 3 days of what you are going thru now is what pushed about 80% of my former urban neighbors to panic.
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Quite a lot of work actually.
Hurricane Ike (2008) affected us much more than Katrina/Rita (2005).
Was without power for nine days.
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Though you have obviously experienced a high degree of inconvenience and disruption, I am very glad to note that you are not reporting any more serious problems of a personal nature for you or your family!!!
This too shall pass ...
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As the sun set on day 2 after losing power, web,TV, puters, etc., I finally got back limited internet on my phone.
I have a portable 9500 watt genny running 24 a day. 4 long cords into the house.
1 to daughters bedroom.
1 to our bedroom
1 to the kitchen for the refrigerator and freezer in addition to making coffee.
1 goes down and across the basement to run our gas hot water heater.
The house is too hot with no AC and temps near 90 F but we seem to have what we need to get by.
Trees and power lines are down everywhere in our area. Only one of four routes in and out of our neighborhood does not have trees and power lines completely blocking traffic.
With no puters, i could not work so I went outside to begin the clean up.
All thanks to tropical storm IzASS. I spell it this way quite on purpose.
Gil