Weather

Rais said:

I know the last time I was there they played all the Marvel movies in order at the time. I think it was 5? It was the best thing to do. This is exactly the reason why I won't move back to Florida. The random every 3-5 years of no power for a week. Funny enough though I might get deployed with my company for cat duty there. It'd be nice to see the area and how much it's changed in 5 years and see my friends. Sweating my balls off with mosquitos not so much.

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If it's every 3 to 5 years, it seems like a whole home generator is well worth the cost and time.

Maintenance shouldn't even be that hard. Fire it up annually, to check functionality (around Memorial day or Fourth of July weekend) and drop more fuel treatment in your fuel then you're gtg (for gas gens, use pure gasoline (0% ethanol) along with stabilizer).

BrutulTM said:

Propane is better yet although it might be harder to refuel in a disaster it doesn't go bad from sitting. Everybody that has a whole home generator in this area runs it on propane but then most of them have a 500 gallon tank of it sitting there for their furnace already.

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Yea, fuel stability is the issue, but just quickly searching around, on diesel, lead me to a (prepper) forum talking about how if you have a proper storage tank, and add stabilizer every year, diesel can keep indefinitely.

Pure gasoline is supposedly in a somewhat similar situation as diesel, in that if you have a good storage tank, and keep adding stabilize, it will keep a long time (maybe not indefinitely, but years). At least that's what some dudes at Bob is the Oil Guy forums wrote, when I was looking into switching to ethanol free for my car (one of the gas stations near me has it for almost the same price, currently, but only in 87 octane).

If you have a propane tank already though, a generator that runs on it sounds phenomenal.

Update on car now that the water is gone.

Heard from my parents in Ormond finally( 6 miles north of Daytona ).
54 hours without power and another 8 for internet.
Just limbs and debris, no home damage.

Lanx said:

jesus christ say TREE limbs, don't leave out the tree

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Trees? Who said anything about trees!

looks like whats left of Ian is going to try to visit Sanrith Descartes dude watch your shit.

As of this evening we will be 50 degrees +/- and rainy for the next two days. Literally will not go up during the day or down during the night, just 50.

Had that the other week when it hit 97, high next day was at midnight at 82 and dropped all day down to 41 at night.