They turned off your power just because you might get crazy winds?
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The first was 26 hours, the second, 30 hours long. About 10 hours in between. Both preemptive by the power company for wind speed expectations >100 mph. 107 mph was recorded just north of me by about two miles.
At least we have a gas stove, and a gas fireplace that can be used without electricity. It was world ending for kid who had never had to deal with a power outage for more than 15 minutes before.
It was kind of fun for me though. Reading by literal candlelight, snuggling under lots of blankets (furnace requires power to run). Crappy coffee, confused dogs.
Back to "normal" now it seems. First world problems.
The risk being that downed power lines are often the cause of fires, much like one that occurred in his area previously.
The power company was held liable for a fire a few years ago caused my down power lines that burned down 1000 houses. They are paranoid now.
you should look into getting a battery backup for your furnace. if wired properly it would work like a UPS for servers and still operate through an outage. you could probably get at least a day with two car batteries. even longer with a proper li4po unit.
We have been having discussions. We already have solar panels, but didn't get storage installed (which is really expensive). We are second guessing or past decision.
Still out up in Evergreen, they are saying maybe back tomorrow. Just finished cleaning out fridges and freezers. So fun.
Better than the town burning down though. Which somebody apparently tried to do with a generator but the FD managed to stop the fire before it got too crazy. Kudos to them for saving us from the morons.
As annoying as it was, I survived the Marshall Fire, so I'm okay with the caution.
We are going through our fridge/freezers now. Fun.
This is the main reason why everyone should get a barbecue with a side burner. I know that many people don't have that option but if you ever do get an opportunity to buy a barbecue, get one with a side burner. The barbecue with a side burner becomes a survivor tool when the power goes out.
When the power goes out for a length of time, you begin to realize that one of the things you need is to heat water and food. Heating water to make instant soup, heating food to make meals. You can plug in electric units to your power supply but its pretty demanding if you have limited storage. And small camping fuel canisters can be fairly limited as well, as they are designed to make small meals at a time.
A tip for people who are able to get a barbecue for their house / apartment / living space ... buy one used from buy/sale websites. I bought mine for $50 and it's a model that is about ten years old but it was originally sold for probably $500 because it has a large burner space, a side smoker and a side burner. Every barbecue is a fairly basic unit with basic parts and if you know how, they are simple to fix and repair.
We have a camp stove that usually work on the little bottles, but I do have an adapter that can hook it up to the large 20lb standard propane tanks. That was my backup plan (and the first place I made coffee in the garage to make sure it worked).
We're in northern Ontario in Canada and over the years we've had power go out. A few times it lasted more than a few hours ... it was then I realized, I needed something to heat food and water. I do a lot of camping but we have so much wood in the north that I don't use small bottle camp stoves ... when you get out in the bush here, if you know what you are doing and are comfortable with it, it's relatively easy to just build a quick fire. I grew up in the bush with my family and it's just normal for me to just build a fire.
But when you live in a town, it's kind of hard to make a fire in your backyard. So the best solution was to have a barbecue with a side burner ... I recommend it to everyone I meet who is thinking of buying a new barbecue ... it's a survival tool when the power goes out.
We've had a couple long outages. It's especially an issue for us, as we're on a well, so if the power is out we also have no water.
We have a generator with a transfer switch that will run the pump and water heater and some other things (fridge, freezer, pellet stove, lights, etc), but not the main heat or air conditioning. But we also have an RV, so if we can get water from the house, we can use the RV as a lifeboat, running the air conditioner or furnace. The fridge in it runs off electricity or propane. We've done that a few times, mostly in our previous house - we haven't run into a long enough outage at this house to need to do that yet. (I suspect they know we're on wells in this area, so we have some priority in getting power restored.)
It really sucks, I know.