Western NYS, USA. Heavy snow coming down. Power is on. I'm enroute to the store, to pick up some pictures, and also buy more groceries in case the power goes out. Milk, bread, eggs, etc.
My sympathies to the folks in Oklahoma, and other places affected by the ice storm.
How's everyone doing?
I may use this "down time" to change out a couple circuit breakers been meaning to change.
Where in Western NY?
I just got power back about an hour ago. It was out for about 78 hours. It is supposed to warm up a little this afternoon and I need to get out and change the oil in the generator and get it put back up. I was real pleased with the performance of the generator. It took about 9 gal of gas every 24 hours. I was running most things in my house and a neighbors furnace, fridge, and TV.
There are still a lot of people in Oklahoma without power and we have a winter storm watch for Friday night and Saturday morning.
Central NY, just snow for this storm. Sunday, that might not be the case.
Dave
How are all those FEMA generators I saw go by on 75 doing?
Those were big commercial ones that were going primarily to city's. They needed them for water wells and waste water treatment. Some are being used to power shelters. They may end up using some of them to get power back for some schools. Almost all of our schools around here have been closed all week.
We did get our power back about 11:00 AM. That meant that the power outage lasted about 78 hours. We have been lucky. The State still has about 800,000 without power and the Oklahoma City metro area has over 200,000.
Dont forget to buy 3 lbs of cold cuts lie everyone else does when it snows. Otherwise you'd eat canned food for a day until the snow stops
Yea. I've never understood all the panic grocery shopping when a big storm is coming. Silly stuff like bread and milk. Geez, my pantry always has cans of evaporated milk, and plenty of flour if I want bread. I figure my normal pantry stock could easily sustain me (and my cat) for at least 60 days in an emergency. The only thing I ever do when a storm is coming is make sure my fuel reserves are full.
most people lack more than a day or two in emergency food supplies, depending entirely on the close by grocery store. which depends on daily or twice daily deleveries.
grocery stores DONT have a big stocroom in the back
Are you kidding? Most middle/upper class homes have multiple cans of soup, pasta, cold cereal, snacks etc. Don't forget frozen goods. Remember, in most areas roads become passable within 12-24 hours of a snowfall. People who cant eat soup/cereal etc in a pinch for a day or so are too spoiled and need to live in North Korea or Darfur for a while. True I cant ALWAYS eat what I want when snowed in but there is plenty to eat. I laugh at those who think they will be homebound for
6 weeks > >Thanks for your thoughts.
We came back on today. Still have lots of folks on generators, we pass them around as power comes back. Oklahoma City School District and many others have been closed Monday through Friday with snow coming.
Rumor has it that FEMA will not be buying or reimbursing personal use generators or chainsaws.
As my mentor, Red Skelton, used to say. . . . God bless.
Right. I don't think there is a storm that could shutdown that area for more than a few days, which meshes well with the standard recommendations of supplies for three days.
Central NJ. Lost power for 2 hours due to branch on power lines. About 1/8 inch of ice on everything.
Do you have enough cold cuts milk and eggs?
LOL!
This gesture of FEMA was abused in South Florida. People collected money and turned right around and sold them - never used them as intended.
LOL.
I haven't eaten raw eggs since 1963.
Actually, I was sort of looking forward to going to bed hungry.
The worst part for me is that the silence makes me notice the sound of crickets. (Tinnitus.)
Why not? My last was in the late 70's.
When you have peanut butter and jelly? Add the glass of milk? What for?
Sound can be deafening!!
I ate raw eggs in milk shakes because I read that they went with a weight lifting regimen. I stayed with the weights longer than the eggs. The weights worked, I don't think the eggs did. Now there are health warnings, don't eat raw eggs, they can make you sick.
This is all based on the chicken police :-)) I gave up the raw egg / in shakes and eventually lifting weight as I once did.
Please, do wash hands and follow the chicken police (Emeril)..
I did an interview of family members that moved circa 1921 to Florida. Never did I discover in the interview; any warning about chickens or eggs, except _ "we ate what we caught!"
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