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Re: [SNOW] No power no internet

reply to elizabeth
As of today, there are still some people without power in CT. The CL&P Facebook page tells a tale of woe. It's never been this bad in the half century or so that I've resided inside of CT.
When I lived in the Philippines, we had outages too, but power was always back on in a matter of hours. Something's seriously wrong with CT.

This might be insight into why:

»www.ctpost.com/local/article/Rep···0976.php

reply to elizabeth
I shudder to think what would happen when a cat 2 or 3 hurricane decides to pay the state a visit again. I never remember extensive power outages like this after storms in the past. Even with Hurricane Bob, we were out for less than a day. Yep, something is seriously wrong with this state, and like Harddrive & others have said, leaving it is sounding better & better.

reply to cowboyro
Was at Costco today and generators were flying off the shelves (figuratively speaking).. we say three of them being wheeled to checkout, one of which was a 12kw propane automatic model.

The problem with generators is that gasoline is likely to rise a lot in the next six months, and you can't really store enough to run for say, six months, which is about what you'd need for the coming economic collapse. Heaven forbid if Israel bombs Iran this summer, and the Chinese blockade the Persian Gulf--we'll be fooked. Think we got problems now? Try $39 /gallon for regular and rationing. It's coming, but the scary thing is I can't predict the exact month. Just watching the Euro go down in flames.. US$ will see a temporary boost for a while, but then we'll go down eventually with the deficit and unfunded pension collapse.. these storms are a tiny preview of life after TSHTF. Now extend that 1 week to 6 months and you've got a better idea of what to prepare for.

Practically speaking, diesel with the ability to burn cooking oil, bio diesel, etc., may be the only viable option when the gas stations are closed and no trucks are running. Diesel is 30% more efficient than gasoline engines, and a 1200rpm diesel genset is going to be quieter and last a LOT longer. You need reliability for extended run times lasting into the months.

Storms are going to get worse for a while too. Sunspot/solar storms are peaking this year. There was a major solar flare 3 days before the October snow storm. Alaska is in the midst of a 'snowicane' right now.

I'm glad folks are waking up, but storing all that fuel is dangerous and also a bad investment if you don't use proper additives to preserve it for long storage. Diesel has better shelf life and you can run it off a big huge underground storage tank for months at a time.

Kommie, hold me...

reply to cowboyro
Someone forgot to take his meds...

reply to CTMustang

reply to elizabeth
$39 a gallon!! I heard it was only going to get to $38.50 a gallon!!@

How many of you, back in the 1950s, paying 15 cents a gallon for gas ever thought we'd see $4.00 a gallon? If I said gas was going over $3 back in 1958, folks would have laughed at me. But the curve is accelerating. We won't need another fifty years to get there. War breaks out, blockades happen, and guess what happens to fuel prices and fuel supplies?

Given all the hand-wringing in the last 5 decades about how we're going to run out of oil (and still haven't) and given all the public monies spent trying to find alternatives, I'm actually shocked we can still buy it at $3+ (which is only double the 1950 price, when adjusted for inflation). So, yes, any reasonable person should have seen this.

If I'd told you in 1850 that within 50 years we'd completely drop whale oil as a source of heat and light, and instead use a petroleum substance that we drill and suck up from underground, you'd have laughed at me...

And what's going to happen when, inevitably, oil/fuel supplies drop and prices rise? We adapt. The market price shift will signal to us to buy more fuel-efficient transportation (which it has; the market for SUVs has tanked and the market for smaller cars is rising significantly) and we find alternatives such as natural gas.

If I'd told you in 1950 that one of Chevrolet's most sought-after cars in 2011 would be a compact plug-in electric hybrid, you'd have laughed at me...

We sense, we adapt. And we survive just fine, thank-you-very-much... - GA

About 10 minutes ago, our power went out in Danbury.

Happy Thanksgiving all.

Must be because of the nasty weather! Oh ... wait ... it's beautiful out ...
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Old dogs can learn new tricks!

Power was out for about 4 hours. CL&P's website indicated 4% of Danbury was out at the time of our blackout. It's amazing.
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Don't forget to change the oil on your generators, folks. Also, every couple hundred hours, check the field brushes. If they wear out, you'll get no juice, even though the engine is running.

A Bosnian recently said that this History Channel program was the most close to reality scenario that compared closely with what he went through in 1992-95: