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Old 12-24-2023, 12:40 PM  
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What are your hacks when the electricity goes out
It’s blowin like a sumbitch in western Kansas and our electricity just went out. What are your hacks?
We run as much water as we can in the tub and use a 5 gallon bucket to pour in the top of the toilet for usage.
We have LED lights that are always plugged in and automatically go on when the electricity goes off. They are handy flashlights too.
It’s cold so the garage makes a huge walk in freezer.
Everyone adds layers of clothes.
I am soon buying a big generator and a MM plug-in to plug into my 220 volt plug in. Must turn the main breaker off so no electricity gets backed down the line and kills some poor lineman !

You guys?
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Old 12-24-2023, 12:48 PM   #2
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I live inside the city limits so I have city water that doesn't stop operating, I have natural gas for hot water and heating the house. I have a 6500 watt generator for the fan on my furnace, fridge, freezer, etc.
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Old 12-24-2023, 12:51 PM   #3
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It’s blowin like a sumbitch in western Kansas and our electricity just went out. What are your hacks?
We run as much water as we can in the tub and use a 5 gallon bucket to pour in the top of the toilet for usage.
We have LED lights that are always plugged in and automatically go on when the electricity goes off. They are handy flashlights too.
It’s cold so the garage makes a huge walk in freezer.
Everyone adds layers of clothes.
I am soon buying a big generator and a MM plug-in to plug into my 220 volt plug in. Must turn the main breaker off so no electricity gets backed down the line and kills some poor lineman !

You guys?
life on the farm. Did a lot of that as a kid. Dad bought one and loved it. I have it now. I do not have it hooked up to the panel.

Did the same thing with water. Started saving water in Oct so we could flush the toilet in December.


We had a floor heater that always worked. Gravity heater?

Now, if we lose elect our fireplace has a battery backup to get it to fire.
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Old 12-24-2023, 12:52 PM   #4
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The wind sucks ass today.

I put an electric space heater in our well pit, and have a gas option if we lose power for a long time.

If things get really hairy I've got a large tractor PTO driven generator that can power the entire farm. Haven't had to bust it out for years and years.
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The wind sucks ass today.

I put an electric space heater in our well pit, and have a gas option if we lose power for a long time.

If things get really hairy I've got a large tractor PTO driven generator that can power the entire farm. Haven't had to bust it out for years and years.
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Last time it almost came out was when the Chiefs beat Jax in I think 06' to get in the playoffs.

That ice storm sucked.
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Old 12-24-2023, 01:00 PM   #7
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We moved into our home Thanksgiving four years ago. The first 2 years, our electricity went out 3 times, including the Thursday night barn burner chiefs vs chargers in December 2021, which I had to go find someplace to watch the game. It happened again that winter in a February blizzard. So, I bought a portable generator. So, now I'm prepared. Wouldn't you know it, the electricity has not gone out since that last time, nearly 2 years ago.
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Old 12-24-2023, 01:20 PM   #8
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I have a question, if I may, about filling your bathtub with water when the electricity goes out. Why do you do that?
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I have a question, if I may, about filling your bathtub with water when the electricity goes out. Why do you do that?
Electricity well pump won't work with out juice.

You can boil that bathwater with a gas stove if you need water.
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Old 12-24-2023, 01:26 PM   #10
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Last time it almost came out was when the Chiefs beat Jax in I think 06' to get in the playoffs.

That ice storm sucked.

I remember that mother****er. It was horrible. My boss let me use a generatorc and I lived in a 2-story duplex in the outer edge of an apartment complex. The system's heating unit was in a little storage closet in the fenced back porch section of my duplex. The streets were dark except the lights in my house aand all you could hear was my generator.
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Old 12-24-2023, 01:26 PM   #11
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One of the very first things I did when I bought my current house (All Electric)
was purchase a 500 Gallon Propane tank and a whole house generator. I had heard my area was notorious for power outages.

I moved into my home in June of 2020. When we moved in our utility was busy cutting trees back from the lines. Boy did people bitch about that! But in the nearly 3 1/2 years I lived here not once has my generator ran to support my house. I almost hope power would go out just so I can justify to my wife the installation of the Generator and Propane tank!
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Electricity well pump won't work with out juice.

You can boil that bathwater with a gas stove if you need water.
OK that makes sense. I couldn't envision a scenario at my house why I would need to do that, but I get the city supply so I don't have to deal with well water pumps.
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I live inside the city limits so I have city water that doesn't stop operating, I have natural gas for hot water and heating the house. I have a 6500 watt generator for the fan on my furnace, fridge, freezer, etc.
Yea, I have a small propane generator that I can run off of the same tanks that I use for my grill.

The key thing I want, I have a split mini AC in my bedroom/office and if the power goes out during a heat wave, I can run just the bedroom AC off the generator.
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I moved into my home in June of 2020. When we moved in our utility was busy cutting trees back from the lines. Boy did people bitch about that! But in the nearly 3 1/2 years I lived here not once has my generator ran to support my house. I almost hope power would go out just so I can justify to my wife the installation of the Generator and Propane tank!
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