Tornado!
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24 hours later, several surrounding towns are still without power. That means everyone is traveling to Hooterville for groceries and restaurants.
Iāve never seen crowds like these!
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Our friends who live about 5 miles north of us still donāt have power, and neither does the big shopping center where Home Depot and Costco are. Jackās daycare is also without power and it looks like weāll be seeing a lot of him.
Theyāve brought in repair crews from all over the country but even with the extra manpower Ohio Ed. estimates it will be 8/14 before power is restored.
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It turns out the 8/14 estimate is somewhat misleading. Thatās the date they expect to have everyone back on line. Most areas will get power way before that.
Some people were reading tge 8/14 text when their power came back on.
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Yes I do. I think this summer Iāll wire in an inlet like you have.
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Yea, being able to run your refrigerator during an extended outage is nice. And during the winter having the furnace functioning is really helpful. Ice storms can be nasty and take power out for days. We don't get a lot of them but, oh boy, what a pain when you do.
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My intention was to run in a cord to the furnace if need be but an inlet would be much nicer.
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We don't end up using that manual transfer switch a whole lot, but it is really nice to have if there's a multi-day outage.
Glad you posted about the power outage, as it reminded me that we haven't run our generator recently. We try to do a test at least every three or four months so we know it will start and run.
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@ShiroKuro Maybe, but ask around.
Until this latest round of tornados there has not been an extended power outage around here in nearly 30 years.
At this point the juice wouldnāt be worth the squeeze.
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Same here. Weāve decided a natural gas standby isnāt worth it. Besides the initial cost thereās the annual maintenance. And they can be persnickety performance-wise. We know a number of people who have them and they have had problems with them and they didnāt do the job when they were needed. Itās not a 100 percent reliable solution by any means.
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BTW re the need (or lack thereof), my thinking is that these kinds of problems are going to become more frequent because of climate change, but otoh, we havenāt really lived in this town (let alone in this house) long enough to have a good sense of itā¦
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Mom has a wired one and about 10 yrs in had the company out a bunch of times because a light was flashing during the weekly test. It took them a while to find and replace the part responsible. Still worth it for peace of mind for her... and for us! She still has the large generator that my dad got from Costco in the garage. I think our youngest will take that for the house they just bought. Just need a bunch of extension cords and lots of gas cans to run back and forth if the outage goes on for a long time...
