Posted by Determined on November 15, 2018 at 06:34:45 from (216.130.212.201):
Reading 37chief's post about electricity being down got me to thinking about how well prepared everyone is should they be down for a day or two or ?
What do you do and what tips do you have to share?
We used to get outages fairly often, longest was about a day and a half so over the years so we have come up with many ways to get around the various problems.
-Gas stove in the kitchen, coffee in a good old fashioned percolator tastes like you are out camping and is easy to do.
-A dozen or so gallon jugs of water in the canning room downstairs takes care of water for drinking, cooking and washing.
-Keep the freezers full, don't peek in on them and they will be fine for a few days.
Whatever is in your fridge should be on the menu for today, if the temp outside is cool enough load everything up in coolers and set it outside.
Even if it is not cool outside food in a full cooler in the house will stay cool longer than food in a half full fridge.
-Between the gas stove and the barbecue cooking is no problem.
I made a grill that fits nicely in the wood stove in the shop, let the wood burn down to a nice bed of coals and you can cook up some of the best steaks you've ever had.
-Back up inverter in the basement with 4 big gel type batteries will run lights for a long time, with LED bulbs it is good for days.
-Large UPS keeps things happy in the office;1 computer, base station for cordless phones, router for laptops.
-A few flashlights always handy.
-Good old wall phone that works without having to be plugged into 110V.
-Onan genset in a small trailer can easily be pulled over to the building that we keep our freezers in if required.
Only really needed it a few times in the last 15 or so years since I bought it but it is peace of mind knowing it is there.
It will also power up the furnace in the house if need be.
Run it a few times a year to keep it happy.
-Number 1 the great outdoors.
-Number 2 the RV is parked next to the house and always has a few gallons of RV antifreeze handy for flushing.
-If power goes out when bitterly cold first priority is fire up the feeding tractor that is normally plugged in and run it until it is warm, repeat as required.
Same applies for any vehicle you might need to clear snow or get out with if it normally needs to be plugged in to start when cold.
-Wood stove in the shop and always at least one tractor and truck in there guarantees something will start without power.
-As long as you can get something running an inverter will run a few tools or lights in the shop.
-If there is a big storm coming through and an outage is probable fill the bathtub half full of water then all you need is a pail to refill the top tank on the toilet so you can use it instead of using a tree during a lightning storm in the pouring rain.
-A metal 5 gal pail half full of hot coals from the wood stove covered with a plate of steel set under a tractors oil pan warms the oil up pretty quickly.
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