[Rhodes22-list] The weather.

[Michael Meltzer]

maybe that the best way to prevent a lighting hit on the boat, just get insurance :-)

MJM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Schultz" <BenS@ApproSystems.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] The weather.


> 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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