Weather

  • Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!



    Go here and give us your nominations!
    Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
slippery

slippery

<Bronze Donator>
7,910
7,732
Looking around at infrastructure damage in Cape Coral is rough. There are only like 3 stop lights working in town. Tons of snapped or down telephone polls. Still no water, power, and spotty cell reception. Feels like it's going to be a while. But not often you have a basically cat5 hurricane just sit on top of you for 12 hours at the eye
 
  • 1Thoughts & Prayers
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 users
Chanur

Chanur

Shit Posting Professional
<Gold Donor>
28,540
45,598
Finally got our power back. Fix was so short they didn't even say no they were working on it before it was done. Just took 4 days to get there.
 
  • 4Like
Reactions: 3 users
TomServo

TomServo

<Bronze Donator>
6,957
9,837
Chanur said:
Finally got our power back. Fix was so short they didn't even say no they were working on it before it was done. Just took 4 days to get there.
Click to expand...
Dude get the fuck out of atlamonte springs. That's awful.
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
Burns

Burns

Avatar of War Slayer
7,445
14,668
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.
Click to expand...
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).
 
  • 1Like
Reactions: 1 user
BoozeCube

BoozeCube

The Wokest
<Prior Amod>
51,533
302,530
cw86rl67p3r91.jpg
 
  • 3Like
Reactions: 2 users
BrutulTM

BrutulTM

Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
<Silver Donator>
14,671
2,529
Burns said:
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).
Click to expand...
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.
 
  • 2Like
Reactions: 1 users
Burns

Burns

Avatar of War Slayer
7,445
14,668
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.
Click to expand...
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.
 
Oldbased

Oldbased

> Than U
28,428
67,400
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.
 
  • 2Like
  • 1Solidarity
Reactions: 2 users
Lanx

Lanx

<Prior Amod>
65,310
147,259
Oldbased said:
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.
Click to expand...
jesus christ say TREE limbs, don't leave out the tree
 
  • 5Worf
  • 1Like
Reactions: 5 users
Malakriss

Malakriss

Golden Baronet of the Realm
12,659
11,973
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.
 
Oldbased

Oldbased

> Than U
28,428
67,400
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.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.