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This will be a week of dining. Today was the monthly Ladies Who Brunch gathering with the church ladies. It's held at Smitty's and is always a good time. Tomorrow is lunch with a friend. I knit some socks for her and she asked how she could pay me. I decided on a lunch and visit. :) She agreed. Thursday is lunch with a cancer buddy. The last one of our metastatic group. It will be nice to reconnect with her and we will miss our fallen friends.
 
Waterfall said:
Good to know.....I might have thought when Rogers went down....I "think" the home phones worked? I'm trying to remember why people were happy their home phones still worked during some phone crisis.
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When the power is out, often the home phone still works if it is a plug in phone. If it iss a cordless, it wouldn’t.
 
Good morning! Happy Wednesday! Hope you are all feeling well. Talks about phones, cells, texting, landlines, power outages, and a week of dining out. And today will surely bring new topics to the conversation. We gather at the Coffee Cart with cups of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and a type of bun that we called bear claws at home. (Anyone else ever hear them called that?) We gather inspirit for chat, support, and camaraderie. The coffee is fresh brewed, tea water boiling, and bear claws warm from the oven. Come inand join the fun! Allis ready, and all are welcome.

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Redbaron said:
Good morning! Happy Wednesday! Hope you are all feeling well. Talks about phones, cells, texting, landlines, power outages, and a week of dining out. And today will surely bring new topics to the conversation. We gather at the Coffee Cart with cups of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate, and a type of bun that we called bear claws at home. (Anyone else ever hear them called that?) We gather inspirit for chat, support, and camaraderie. The coffee is fresh brewed, tea water boiling, and bear claws warm from the oven. Come inand join the fun! Allis ready, and all are welcome.

C(_)/ c(_) c[_] c\_/
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What about a blessing for psychic deficiencies and mental constructs that have gone missing because of excess mote 'ves! They appear like holes in the field of wile ...
 
JayneWonders said:
Jae, we bought a generator to cover our longer outages and have ups equipment for short ones. Happens regularly

Lots of trees in an area that gets wind storms
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My aunt and uncle put in a propane-fuelled generator when they were living up at the cottage. Had a weird moment first time I saw it because it's the same make we use at work, just a smaller, more consumer-focused model. Looks identical but smaller.
 
Waterfall said:
I remember we had a large outage in eastern Canada.....it affected us in Ontario and Quebec for quite awhile. I think it was 2003? It's possible.
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Also when power outages are widespread it affects more things than phones....you have to use your car to charge a cell phone, gas pumps don't work, furnaces, lights, ...and on and on.
That ice storm back in 2003(4?)....taught me to keep my cell charged and never let my gas tank stay below half full.
@JayneWonders having a generator is a blessing.
 
Waterfall said:
Also when power outages are widespread it affects more things than phones....you have to use your car to charge a cell phone, gas pumps don't work, furnaces, lights, ...and on and on.
That ice storm back in 2003(4?)....taught me to keep my cell charged and never let my gas tank stay below half full.
@JayneWonders having a generator is a blessing.
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Would love a generac (or similar ) wired into the home. They're not cheap. You can tell the people in neighbourhood that have them. They have lights on in an outage

We have a portable generator that can run outside and keep things like fridge and freezer going.

We have a wood stove for heat.
Gas fire table in our sunroom
Gas BBQ for cooking
Plus gas stove and gas fireplace.

UPS powers the router.

Lots of flashlights and candles in strategic locations

We do ok
 
JayneWonders said:
Would love a generac (or similar ) wired into the home. They're not cheap. You can tell the people in neighbourhood that have them. They have lights on in an outage

We have a portable generator that can run outside and keep things like fridge and freezer going.

We have a wood stove for heat.
Gas fire table in our sunroom
Gas BBQ for cooking
Plus gas stove and gas fireplace.

UPS powers the router.

Lots of flashlights and candles in strategic locations

We do ok
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Well now we all know whose house to run to if power goes off for two weeks....lol.
 
My parents got a whole home Generac propane unit for the cottage, where we're trying to move them. Again, lots of trees and occasional outages in the area during storms. They are pricy indeed, and not every electrician can install them.

My truck has 110V and I think about 20A out (and up to 135L of fuel in the tank), so it's not your typical vehicle inverter that you can only plug a 110V phone charger into. It takes up all the room under the back seat. I could run the furnace, freezer and fridge off extension cords, no problem, so that's all we need in the rare case we lose power. We have neighbours with whole home generators and that seems overkill for this area.
 
Our power lines are buried. We get a lot of flickers and short outages but rarely actual blackouts. Outside of the August 2003 blowout when most of the Northeast of North America went down, I don't think we have ever lost hydro for more than an hour, if that long. So I have never even considered a generator for home. It would be a backup for a remote possibility.
 
Mendalla said:
Our power lines are buried. We get a lot of flickers and short outages but rarely actual blackouts. Outside of the August 2003 blowout when most of the Northeast of North America went down, I don't think we have ever lost hydro for more than an hour, if that long. So I have never even considered a generator for home. It would be a backup for a remote possibility.
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It isn't just weather that could cause blackouts.....it could be many things in this crazy world.
 
Waterfall said:
It isn't just weather that could cause blackouts.....it could be many things in this crazy world.
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Right, but those are fairly rare. There has been no repeat of August 2003. I know there's a lot of bellyaching about a Carrington-level solar event but the fact is, we are going through an active solar period right now with minimal impact on grids. There's more required than just a big CME, it has to actually be pointed directly at the Earth, too. There was the Toronto ice storm but, again, that's back to weather and is, again, a fairly rare event.

Things like car crashes or other damage to lines are usually fixed fairly quickly. It's more the mass outage scenarios that are going to take time.

So the question then is how much do you spend for a 1 in a thousand or 1 in a hundred thousand risk. We have a gen at head office because it is the core data centre for our entire operation and losing power there for even an hour would put us in disaster recovery mode. But for a home? When we know we can handle a few hours based on past experience?

Frankly, if I was going to put in backup power, solar panels charging a large battery array would probably be better anyhow. They could also reduce my reliance on the grid in general even when not being used for backup.
 
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