Comments on: A Power Report

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:06:14 +0000

I have a hat with LEDs in the bill that is perfect for reading, but after cutting up trees and hauling stuff to the curb all day, I’m ready to sleep as soon as it gets cool after the sun goes down. Normally I take my phone and laptop to the car and rest in the AC while they are charging after working outside.

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:27:55 +0000

Give me a Coleman lantern and some books and I’m good for the duration.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:57:34 +0000

Every recovery I’ve been in, I was ready to go to bed when the sun went down, but some people feel the need to stay up and stare at their blank television. Hell, after Ivan a lot of people went with Dish because it took the local cable company several weeks to reestablish service. That’s why I won’t get ‘Net access from them – their cables are on utility poles, while the Phone company buries its cable.

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:43:57 +0000

Powered tights?

Damn, I really am behind the curve!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:36:17 +0000

Several things have contributed to it, but it is a function that they were seeing more use on construction sites, so the cost came down and you could buy them at the building supply stores instead of having to special order one. Then you had the extended outages of the storms like Opal, Ivan, Dennis, etc. Throw in the failures of FEMA under the Shrubbery when ice was hard to come by and people were tossing out hundreds of dollars in food from their refrigerators and freezers.

The generators got more powerful and could power the refrigerator, a small AC window unit, plus some tights, and people bought them. People don’t like living without AC, and when the gas stations started to use them so you could get fuel, they became easier to justify.

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:58:19 +0000

Having your own generator seems to have become a “thing” while I wasn’t looking. Is it just ignorance on my part, or didn’t that used to be reserved for construction work, island dwellers and the like?

I’ve been seeing frequent hiccups in the power supply since returning to the Panhandle three years ago — don’t remember anything like that in years past, outside of the occasional thunderstorm outage.