Getting Ready for the Hurricane Gusts!!!

35*....calm.....very foggy....trees are full of ice.....hope it gets into 50s to melt that chit off before the winds hit or itll be a lot worse....

 

Blowing pretty good here. Power outages are being reported two roads over. Won't be turned on or rerouted til winds die down. Thinking about taking a drive around on the quad to see what has been blown into the fields. Staying out of the woods for now.

Might hook the PTO genny up, you know... "take one for the team" so there is almost a guarantee there won't be an outage here.

 

My bad , the wind warning here starts at 10 tonight and runs thru tomorrow morning

 

Pulled out the genny and have it running now, no sense in waiting till the last minute.


Got a call from a buddy, he purchased the same genny today.

 

Did you get a referral kick?
This storm may stay north of you....save your gas for a minute.

 

Just a small shot of gas to get her running. It just died as I typed this.


Won't break my heart if it misses us.

 

Man it sounds like a freight train at my place right now. It's really gusting.

 

Praying for yall in the windy conditions. We didn't have it to bad where we live, but north west GA is flooding, had tornadoes in Mississippi and Alabama. Hope our members in those states are ok. rebelduckman, basod ,woodeye ,JC@ATL

 

Ours isn't nearly as bad, the storm turned more south and it's warmer than predicted

 

You get the genny connections hooked up?

 

Yeppers.......can run fridge,furnace (if need be),well pump,tv,numerous lights n receptacles (depending)......also will maintain fridge in garage....there 33#s of sliced bacon in there plus some good meats....freezers will hold there own if ya stay out of them...
Cord is hooked up to inlet ...ready to go.
By golly..you'd never think the wind is comin...fog lifted....49*s...suns shinin with a slight breeze....we are ready tho...

 

Getting a bit windy here now, but nothing severe.

Showered n Shaved already, just in case.

 

here in the Augusta Me. area: * Winds...West 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph. * Timing...Monday into Monday evening. * Impacts...Strong winds may down trees and tree branches and power lines, leading to power outages. I don't know why, but we are always one of the areas to report the highest winds and gusts. After an education of having trees fall dangerously around my house, I had a bunch of them removed. Bout time to be doing it again. Both me and the trees got old and more round and less sturdy.

 

Ya missed one..

 

sounds good. i know some people that had problems running tv's and puters with a generator. i think i read 1 person fried the brain in his fridge. you know more about that stuff than i do.

 

Inverter generators are best but cost more. All I have is a small 2000 watt for my RV

 

If you try to draw too much...you basically have a brown out...listen to your generator..it will tell you when you are drawin too much...plus..when we put an amp meter on the generator line to see what that the total amps were...we were several amps under with a total draw with everything runnin at once...
One thing ill do this week n that is im goin to drive a copper ground rod in about 6' n be able to ground generator with #6 copper wire..

 

No Chit..

 

Been howling here since about 9:00 AM. Getting stronger now 30-45 MPH reported. One gust 60+ at the lake shore. Some trees down & quite a few power outages, but small & spread out. We're well protected from the West so I'm only showing 15 to 20 MPH max on my gauge. No trees down here so far. Genny is ready.