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The Daring Dufas[_7_]

On 7/15/2011 10:34 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:26:17 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 7/15/2011 2:48 PM, Red Green wrote:
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On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:11:24 -0700, Smitty Two
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My sister lives in an area where the power goes out frequently. She
has asked me more than once to "just" come out and add a plug for
her so she can use a generator to keep her food from going bad.
This is never going to happen. Not so much because I would not do
it for her, it is more because after the first season or two of no
maintenance on her generator, it would not crank anyway. I know
this from listening to the kids complain about the four wheelers not
working or the lawnmower is "broke"

If I were to set her up with a generator, I think I would add a lock
out switch to her existing panel. This way, she could use anything
in her house. The only bad thing about doing this would be if she
could not use self control and try to overload the circuit. Having
the breaker trip a few times might give her the message.

When the power goes off, just turn the breakers off to the bedrooms
and huddle in the den with TV and gas heat.

A dirt-cheap, no-brain, zero-maintenance refrigerator backup plan for
power outages is a few bags of ice in the freezer. Stick them in the
fridge when the power is out and you've got an icebox that will last
for days.

I have suggested that to her. Use a cooler for sandwich meat/milk
and leave the door to the fridge shut.

She lives in Alabama so it doesn't get really cold, but suggested that
she try to put a couple of those cooler ice packs outside and see if
they refreeze. (winter time outages, of course)

Well I certainly learned something. They have electricity in Alabama
:-)

Watch it there boy, we even have flush toilets and indoor plumbing here
in Alabamastan. We even have rotary dial telephones. ^_^

Everything's up to date in Birmingham City?

Believe it or not Birmingham is to telecommunications like Atlanta is to
transportation. Here in the Southeast, Birmingham is a hub for voice
and data routing. A lot of folks don't know that about our stereotypical
backwards state and that's the way we like it. It keeps a lot of those
Damn Yankees from coming down here but once they come here, we can't get
them to go home, dammit. :-)

TDD