Uh oh...Hurricane Sandy headed right for me

[NotMe]

Think cheap 12 volt inverter and a battery.

I have a set of deep cycle golf cart batteries on the porch and a big inverter with a standby gen set to recharge if needed.

[NotMe]

I'd be more concerned for girardia (spl?) and other wild life parasites. BTW regular purification tables do work on girardia but serious boiling might (don't know for sure). It's bad enough of health folk but kids and those with immune problems can be deadly.

[frag]

"NotMe" wrote in news:k6n9pe$gbp$ [e-mail]:

I hope the pump is not eletric. Just works off gravity.

[David Kaye]

"The Daring Dufas" wrote

The Bay Bridge didn't "cruss all those cars". A panel from the bridge fell down and two cars mistakenly drove off from the upper deck to the lower deck.

You're thinking of the Nimitz Freeway, what came to be known as the Cypress Structure in Oakland. The faulty double-decker construction (by Bechtel), caused the top deck to fall onto the lower deck. When I was a kid I knew it was faulty because I used to beg my parents to drive on that part of the freeway because we'd bounce up and down as we rode along. Turned out that the road had been sagging since its construction in 1958 and the "up" part of our bumpy right was right over the supports. In later years they filled in the roadway with extra concrete to eliminate the up and down motion for drivers. When I saw the videos of the collapse I had a cold sweat because the collapsed upper part looked exactly the way I thought it would -- it was a scalloped roadway just like the ups and downs I'd experienced as a kid.

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[The Daring Dufas]

Well, it was more than 20 years worth of brain cells ago. ^_^

TDD

[micky]

It was sort of fun, too.

[micky]

Does it matter that it's 150 feet or so to the street, and I have no driveway?

[micky]

Well I guess that is what they meant, and they were only implying that the crews were on the way, not that they'd arrived. And that's fair. My apologies to whomever on the radio I disputed.

I was thinking they were coming from no farther than Teennessee, which wouldn't require leaving so soon.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Probably not. They can either bring a 100 pound tank or pull the hose from the truck. I don't know how long the hoses are, but I bet he can get close enough.

[HeyBub]

It could be a redistribution of assets:

The trucks from Tennessee are going to New Jersey and the trucks from Texas are going to Tennessee.

[micky]

Okay. Good.

[Stormin Mormon]

Call the propane companies near you, and ask.

Usenet readers may or may not know what they are talking about. Ed P, knows his stuff. I've sensed that, over the years.

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Okay. Good.

[krw]

...and all lanes go one way.