[Rhodes22-list] The weather.

[Ben Schultz]

The best insurance is a generator, but not for the reason you would think.
I got a little Honda last year, and the power hasn't as much as flickered
since.  We had a hurricane and a tropical storm in a week's span, and our
house keeps burning brightly.  I guess I'll have to tote it aboard and use
it to run the microwave and space heater. :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: brad haslett [mailto:flybrad@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 08:14
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The weather.


Rummy, I found the invoice on the Honda 1000i that I
bought for the boat.  It came from
norhwestpowertools.com for $629 with free shipping. 
We've already had one power outage here since I bought
it but it didn't last long enough for a good field
test.  My heating units are located in the attic.  I
feel very confident that the generator would power the
fan on at least one of the units.  The attic is
ventilated but the safer route would probably be to
run a cord out the window down to the deck and run the
genset outside.  You'd still need candles for light
but at least your pipes wouldn't freeze.  We had a
major ice storm in Tennessee about 93' or 94' and the
power stayed out for days.  It dropped a huge oak tree
right at my front door that I had to cut up to get in
the house.  The house had a wood stove so that solved
my heating problems until the power came back.  The
Honda I have is not as big as I would like for home
power back-up use but at 26 pounds its a good
compromise.  Good luck and happy thawing.  Brad.
--- R22RumRunner@aol.com wrote:
> Brad,
> A generator would be nice. I've talked about getting
> one for years, but the 
> storms are so spread out that it really doesn't ever
> get to the top of my 
> want list. I do have a voltage converter that will
> run about 300 watts that I 
> can plug into one of the vehicles. About all that
> would run would be the TV, 
> but that sure would make the neighbors jealous.
> 
> Rummy
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