Storm

[metalbender]

It was a dark and stormy night. Sound familiar? Now 3:30 am our time. Predicted snow just started to come in around ten pm. Hit the sack, never thought any more of it. Woke up at 11:30 by the noise of the wind. It was a pure white out condition. Could just make out the barn with the yard light. Back to the sack, wondering if the power will fail. Two fourty-five, woke again, things were mighty dark, house starting to cool off. Pump shack temp dropping. Good thing it's not -30. Fire up the generator and here I am pecking at the keyboard. Four hrs till the gen needs fuel.

 

[Thomas]

Sounds like nasty storm and long day/night ahead of you...stay safe.

 

[ruffdog]

Take a picture for us in the morning. :thumbsup:

 

[oosik]

Good you have a generator. Sounds like a larger fuel tank might be nice. Be safe ............

 

[metalbender]

Not much to take pics of, a few little drifts and some broken branches. Lost some cedar shingles off the barn. With the winds gusting to 60mph, most of the snow just kept going. My road is polished, hardly any snow on it. The generator I have is just a cheapo Champion 11.5 k start, 9.5 k run, ran from 3:30 till 8:00 our time without refuel. Need 220 v for the well and a little extra for the electric heat in the pump shack. Lots of areas down, ours was about a thousand sq miles.

 

[metalbender]

Massive destruction of ice fishing shacks on local lakes. Still blowing tonight. Deer don稚 like it.

 

[oosik]

Now that's strange. Wonder why your two pics did a 90 degree rotate when I clicked on them. Poor deer will be having a rough time of it. Little to no shelter & hard to get at any grass.

Rancher on property adjoining mine finally had to bring all his round bales into his storage shed. The elk were sheltering on the down wind side of each bale and would eat the dead center out of the bales. Sheltering = no problems. Eating out the center of the round bale = loss of feed & a real ***** to transport and feed.

 

[metalbender]

Same rotation for me. Many times it's the other way, pics rotate to correct orientation when clicked. Not computer savy, DHAFC.

 

[Thomas]

Massive destruction of ice fishing shacks on local lakes. Still blowing tonight. Deer don稚 like it. View attachment 683198View attachment 683199

Brrrr pictures put cold chilly down my back.

 

[civilian]

When did you get your power back? We put in a propane fired gen set when we built our new house 2 years ago. One cold February storm it ran for 24 hours. Glad I didn't have to keep refilling the gas tank. Jon

 

[metalbender]

Wasn't too serious. Got up just before eight, saw lights in the distance, good to go. Couple years ago we were down about ten hrs. One refuel in that time.

 

[metalbender]

That was some pretty severe wind. Three inches of snow stuck on branches in a heavily wooded area. Before and after pics of the area.

 

[Hilbilly]

How do you heat the house?

We usually get at least one or two power outages a year. So far this year it's been 2. The last one lasted for 9 hrs, which isn't too bad. Last year was the worst one in the 13 years we've been here. We got 4' of snow in 24 hrs and high winds that knocked out the phone lines for 3 days and the power for 4 days. We couldn't go anywhere because the main road to our area didn't get plowed for 3 days and the secondary road we live on didn't get plowed until the 4th day. Didn't really matter that the main roads weren't plowed, since it took me a few days to get my driveway opened up.

That was a surreal experience and one that I will never forget. I was prepared so it was actually a pretty cool experience.

 

[metalbender]

We’re on oil heat. Previous owner didn’t want to spend the cash To hook up when the natural gas line was put in. I always have a spare 45 gallon drum full sitting to back up the 200 gal tank. Gas for the generator could be a problem, only have enough for a couple of days.