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Lights POWERR AC-
Glad everything is OK there. Why not get an LP generator and a 500-1000 gallon tank? The fuel won't go bad and there is no running out for more, just call your supplier and they come out and fill it. Diesel is great but you have to store a lot of fuel for long outages and we all know the fuel goes bad after a time, so it's a use it or lose it situtation.
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Not gasoline, Liquid Propane gas like you put in the BBQ. LP gas lasts a very long time, but not sure exactly how long. I thought it would last many years.
Ah, suburbia. You could always call the art department at a local college and have some students come out and paint the tank. If they tell you to remove it tell them they can't trample on your freedom of expression!
I detest homeowners associations. There's always at least one person involved who has nothing better to do than to make it a pain to live within the rules.
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Yeah, Natural Gas is probably the best of all worlds even though it does have fewer BTUs by volume. I always forget about NG because we don't have it and probably never will.
I'm curious, though, with a widespread outage would natural gas service be interrupted too? I'm thinking they might have electric shutoffs located along the pipeline as some sort of safety mechanism, and pumping has to happen somewhere doesn't it?
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Yeah, the only way to fix the grid is to get rid of it. Every home should be self-sufficient. Fuel cells for everyone!
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OK, so the blackout is serious. There are safety and economic ramifications galore and I don't want to minimize the impact, but...
I'm somewhat amused by the whole thing. Some parts of the country and many parts of the world have outages all the time. All the sudden a blackout gets wall-to-wall media coverage 24/7. It seemed to me everyone (especially the media) should have swallowed a chill pill and taken a long weekend.
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Please don't misread this, it's mostly tongue in cheek, but the only reason it's a story is because people are used to the power being reliable. Maybe they need to have more blackouts to get people used to the idea that it can happen.
(I'll duck and run now....)
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