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Days. If you don't open them.
Never, ever, check until the power comes on. A friend was a boss with REA. Folks would be calling during an outage complaining about their freezers. Stuff thawing after a day.
It was because they were worried and kept opening the door.
If it concerns you for the future,put a pint jar of water in there. After it freezes, put a coin on top the ice.
If the ice ever has melted the coin sinks. If it's not on the bottom, things haven't totally thawed.
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I'd be firing up LP and pressure canning before waiting for someone to have an answer.... Lol not a bad idea. We are fiixng the issue and going with an lp gen set. Just was curious
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As a retired Lineman I will comment on this if I may. In my opinion it will get worse. For one thing the electrical system is getting older. For another thing the load on the system is growing. More new houses, bigger houses, more convenance stores, ect. The public wants dependable cheap power. You can't have both. Material and labor in the electrical utility business if frightfully expensive. In some places it cost $100,000 per mile to rebuild a line. Tree trimming is not cheap either. So, its a happy medium keeping the rates affordable and keeping the lights on. Please understand I'm just trying to add some insite, not making excuses. For what its worth I bought a generator when I retired.
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Might as well get used to it. Get the generator set up. Let's go Brandon.
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Where you at Champ?
Never had outages that lasted here in 23 years, but we used to get flickers and brown outs. Reseting clocks almost daily.
Bedford REA. We are at the end of a loop, I can see the circuit breaker fron the living room window. A few years ago they put up new lines, and ended the problem.
Not sure what you need or for how long, but you can run house good enough for me on a 5-8k generator. For awhile. Im close to prince gallitzin On the Plateau. No wonder the power went out! It was windy as heck here. Only someone from around here would understand what that means. Daughter's boyfriend lives on Pleasantville mountain. No power until Tuesday for them.
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Since Hugo came through SC in 1989 I've had a generator big enough to run a portable a/c and lights. Switch it off between the fridge and freezers. I now have a Honda 2000. Costco had a sale on the Firman 2000 gens a couple of years ago and I picked up two of them. Can tie them together like the Hondas for 4K. I'm old enough I don't need to have one that will last twenty years.
We have power out at least twice a year. Too many lines running through areas with trees that are not in good shape.
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Installed a Generac with automatic transfer switch after the 2010 hurricane. So far it hasn't ever come on.
Don't blame me. I voted for Trump.
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Used to lose power all the time. For more than a week after hurricanes. Finally gave in and installed whole house generator. We seldom lose power now , go figure. This hurricane season could be a bit#h though and I'll be glad we spent the money.
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We couldn't operate here without generators our power goes off regularly, it's usually some drunk Mexican drives off the hi-way and knocks down our power line, or a fire burns the poles down, and we are the last ranch on this grid. Rio7
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Had the same problem for the last 15 years. Ours was due to building remote and being the last house on the line.
Before you buy a home stand by generator. Do lots of research. I ended up going w a 20kw Kohler.
Can run everything in the house
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Where you at Champ?
Never had outages that lasted here in 23 years, but we used to get flickers and brown outs. Reseting clocks almost daily.
Bedford REA. We are at the end of a loop, I can see the circuit breaker fron the living room window. A few years ago they put up new lines, and ended the problem.
Not sure what you need or for how long, but you can run house good enough for me on a 5-8k generator. For awhile. Im close to prince gallitzin On the Plateau. No wonder the power went out! It was windy as heck here. Only someone from around here would understand what that means. Daughter's boyfriend lives on Pleasantville mountain. No power until Tuesday for them. You got it and yeah ill consider us lucky. Some around us were told no power for a few days. At least ours was back on in half a day
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Had the same problem for the last 15 years. Ours was due to building remote and being the last house on the line.
Before you buy a home stand by generator. Do lots of research. I ended up going w a 20kw Kohler.
Can run everything in the house Good advice. Not gonna turn generators into a power saw/pickup thread, but there is a well known, well advertised brand that everyone wants. Research them well. You will find a long list of unhappy customers. It seems that instead of sourcing engines from established engine companies, they build their own engines. Not very well.
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