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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

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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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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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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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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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Day 4 and still no juice.
Limited interweb only on phones.

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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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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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Hope you get your power on soon and you can back to a normal life.
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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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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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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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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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