Preparing for Power Outages?

[Don]

This is the part where I start treating you like the whiney little gurl you're acting like. I'll just ignore you. Keep on whining and I'll send you to bed without supper. LOL

[Don]

No supper for you. Now go to bed little gurl and cry yourself to sleep. LOL

[Rod Speed]

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Don wrote just the puerile shit you'd expect from a desperately cowering gutless f****it.

[Rod Speed]

Some gutless f****it desperately cowering behind Don wrote just the puerile shit you'd expect from a desperately cowering gutless f****it.

[aemeijers]

Thank you for saving me the trouble. Despite AZ Nomad's lecture, I wasn't worried at the time, and would not be worried about it now. This is the same gas range I COOKED on, and that never killed me. Nor did I leave it running for hours, or running while out of the room or asleep. Heat a pot of water, and turn it off till the water got cold again. Yes, I did sleep in a sleeping bag and long johns on those occasions.

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[aemeijers]

Why do you guys even bother responding to him? People like him are what kill files were invented for. No fuss, no muss, and the rest of us don't have to wade through your responses. Once in a while he tries rotating from addresses, until his ISP cracks down on that, but it usually only takes 3 or

4 posts to recognize him.

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[Jim Yanik]

" [e-mail]" wrote in news:cP6dnVUsVaDC4XbYnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Or you could have a CO alarm handy to alert you there are high CO levels. Then you don't have to die.

Besides,if you die,you won't be able to post the results of your test. B-)

[AZ Nomad]

There's an invention called the thermostat. A closed oven operating normally will only be on a fraction of the time. A room that isn't perfectly sealed will have enough ventalization.

But, feel free to stick your head in the oven and turn on the gas, given how little you value your life. Hopefully if you don't give a shit, nobody else will.

[Jim Yanik]

" [e-mail]" wrote in news: [e-mail]:

If you are so remote,then why wouldn't it be prudent to have a generator for -some- power,if not whole-house capability?

And can't you get broadband from a satellite in Canada,at least for downloads?

BTW,a car battery and an inverter would power your laptop,or a TV & DVDplayer,maybe a fluorescent light or two.

[clifto]

Looks like a 3W LED headband light to me.

[Don]

He may have meant this one, down on the bottom of the same page.

[clifto]

Thanks, don't know how I missed it.

[Matthew Beasley]

Brush generators usually put out much better power than brushless units do - at least the low cost quadniture excited brushless units. Some of the welder generators put out dirty power becuase they are inverter units that use cheap square wave (AKA modified sine wave) inverters.

[Larry Caldwell]

Just a coda on the power outage prep thread:

I stopped by the Goodwill Last Chance store yesterday, and bought a whole shopping bag full of candles for $1. If you are not familiar with Goodwill, they have outlet stores where they keep things for 24 hours before they are trashed or recycled. It's stuff that didn't sell in the regular store, so it's pretty much "make an offer."

Anyway, I bought about 35 lbs of candles for $1. About half the weight was pillar candles, and about half was tapers. Thanks to this little foray, I now have about 80 or 90 tapers on hand. I guess now I need to keep my eyes open for a candelabra.

[Anthony Matonak]

Larry Caldwell wrote: ...

I've got a couple of packs of "emergency" candles in my kit somewhere but to be honest, they'll be the last things I light up in an emergency. Good flashlights are not very expensive, won't set the drapes on fire and they don't set off smoke alarms or leave soot on the ceiling.

Anthony

[Larry Caldwell]

Everybody to their own, I guess. I find flashlights to be garish and unpleasant, good for getting down a muddy path at night, but hardly the sort of thing I want to use in my house. I haven't set the drapes on fire or put soot on anything yet, and I have never seen a candle set off a smoke detector.

[nospam]

In a local town this year the power went out, old woman lit a candle then fell and dropped the candle, house caught on fire and she could not find the phone in the dark. Her house burned down. Very sad but true story.

[clifto]

I have one of the lanterns. 12 LEDs, 4 D batteries. Variable brightness. We use it on low brightness as a night light; it's been on every night for no less than 6 hours, typically 8, since about last July with no visible change in brightness, on the first set of batteries.

[NotMe]

Or a grand piano and some gold lame

[NotMe]

| | In a local town this year the power went out, old woman lit a candle then fell | and dropped the candle, house caught on fire and she could not find the phone in | the dark. Her house burned down. Very sad but true story.

The house was buring with a dark flame?