God Bless generators!!!

[gcvt]

Originally posted by slipknottin
I think this is the one I should get

http://www.hondapowerequipment.com/eb11000.htm

hah I could light up half the city with that thing.

LOL! That thing has a bigger motor than my dirt bike...and costs about as much!

 

[makai]

act of god.........

i can see your point.....
i'm just relaying what they told us

 

[gcvt]

If bad weather causes an outage, I could see them using the 'Act of God' excuse. But what if it's really nice out and they blow a transformer or circuit breaker? Wouldn't that be an equipment failure on their part and not an Act of God? What if it was a construction crew that chopped through an underground line?

Depending on the circumstances of the outage, I could see where you'd have grounds to file a claim.

 

[gcvt]

Well....here I am once again, posting on AC, using generator power! My power went out a couple hours ago but all my tanks are up and running

God Bless Generators.


EDIT: Going on five hours now Guess it's not just me...looks like 24,600 homes in SF have no power. There is no estimated time for the power to be restored. I may have to go buy some more gas...if I can find a gas station that has power. Otherwise I'll siphon some out of my truck or drain some from my bike. This sucks.

 

[Fishiebusiness]

Hey did ya hear about the millions and millions in bonuses the PG&E executives are getting?

PG&E

 

[VoodooChild]

A quick question about this. I don't really have to worry about this too much. Up here we get maybe an outage a year, for only 1/2 hour or so. But anyways, would you have to worry more about water movement in powerheads and the like more, or the heating. Just wondering. Sorry to hear about your plight. If something of mine died because of it, I'd stick'er in an envelope and mail it to the company. If you only get power sometimes anyways, what's the difference if you blacklisted?

 

[gcvt]

Originally posted by VoodooChild
A quick question about this. I don't really have to worry about this too much. Up here we get maybe an outage a year, for only 1/2 hour or so. But anyways, would you have to worry more about water movement in powerheads and the like more, or the heating. Just wondering. Sorry to hear about your plight. If something of mine died because of it, I'd stick'er in an envelope and mail it to the company. If you only get power sometimes anyways, what's the difference if you blacklisted?

Well, I keep my heaters in my sump so if I have no water movement, I have no heat - it's kind of all or nothing. But I think a quick drop in temperature would be more harmful than lack of current.

BTW, I used to just get 1/2-hour outages too - ah, those were the days Now they average more like 6 hours.