@jon-nyc said:
@Steve-Miller said:
… and go stay somewhere else.
That was always my plan. The problem is when there’s a huge power outage everyone else has that plan and the nearby hotels fill up.
Once I spent a week hopping between hotels every night or two for a week. You’d believe the reports that power will be restored tomorrow, then when it isn’t, and you call to extend, they say no because the room has been rented out. So I find another hotel. Then the same thing happens again.
The next month I bought the generator.
We have the same problem with hurricanes. By the time you need to rent a room there are none- zero. It's a fictional option. The y say conditions in shelters (I've been told) during hurricanes aren't ideal. In the case of my acquaintance his experience included backed up toilets and no toilet paper. The authorities come through with cars with sirens and bullhorns telling us to leave. I spent Helene at a friend's house in Pasco. I stayed home for Milton. Milton was the one they thought might hit Tampa directly. It wiped out much of Ft. Meyers instead
Btw, Our power is underground. The power in HI isn't underground for residential. Drilling tunnels through volcanic rock- not happening.
The privatized utility charges a fortune (I mean an astronomical amount) but never keeps the lines properly maintained vis a vis trees and underbrush. Better to give the money to the shareholders. Bog stand routine there. So in a storm, the poles fall over, the broken lines start fires, and towns burn to the ground.
Oh, and if there's a hurricane in HI, there's really nowhere to go. You're ****ed.