Deeming Regulations have been released!!!!
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And the best? A gas grill with a burner!
My Weber is just a grill. No burner. But I have a turkey fryer. Has a nice big burner on it so that's what I use when the power goes out. It's great for using a wok on it too so I consume lots of stir fry when the juice goes out.
My Weber does not have a burner either. I thought it would a waste of money, oooops, wrong again.
I plan on waiting until after the power comes back. Then I won't need it and can blissfully ignore the whole problem.
Well, you can always buy a single burner off Amazon or some place and hook your propane tank to it. But you'll be like me and wait until after the power goes out before you do something about it.
You can get a camp stove too. Take Mrs CMD camping. I'm sure she'd love sleeping on a deflated blowup mattress in 90 degree heat with bugs crawling all over her. Who wouldn't?
If I suggested it, she would go, she is game for most stuff. But it may be a single outing. I have thought about a camp stove, I always have between ten and fifteen gallons of gasoline around waiting for my next careless move. It could be handy. I once had a stove that used gasoline as opposed to Coleman type fuel, in one of my moves it was lost or given away.
Have we derailed a thread?
I turn off most of the breakers in my 200A panel and just leave lights on. The freezer and the fridge stay off. If the house gets cold I can turn off lights and flip on the central gas furnace for heat. That works well, but I would rather have a 10K generator instead of my 5500W. Even better would be a permanently installed whole house natural gas generator with the auto on feature when Ga Power drops out.
After reading in a magazine about gasoline generators running fine on LP or natural gas, I tried cranking mine with the gas tank empty (the way I store it). It ran fine just holding the hose of the Propane tank close to the carb air intake with the air filter off. Using NG is supposed to be better for the engine since there's no sludge and varnish build in the carb.
Back to Deeming regs ... different Apocalypse.
I believe using propane or NG yields more power (vs gasoline). Maybe I have that backwards. Worth researching if you have the option.
Knew it was something but didn't know exactly what. Now that I think about it, my neighbor has a house Generac and had the option of feeding it propane or NG. He chose propane due to its increased power output. It was actually significant.
Yep, up at my house in PA, I have a "Tri Fuel" one. It can be run on gasoline, propane, or NG. Since I have NG at the house, I plumbed it to NG. I've forgotten the exact specs on it; I think it's rated around 9 kW on gasoline and 7.2 on NG, with propane somewhere in between. That's plenty to run some lights, fridge & freezer, and the gas heat.
Shortly before I moved here in 1998, Hurricane Fran came thru the area and wiped this place out. Power was out for up to a month in many areas. A large majority of generators were useless here because homeowners did not purge old gasoline out of their gens. Varnished up the innards and they could not fire them up. People wised up and converted to propane/NG. It's nice to have fuel options including gasoline. But for many they need to stick with propane or NG because they simply are not going to maintain gasoline quality.
The problem with that was you can't run a 240V well pump off extension cords, which mean toilets couldn't be flushed and showers couldn't be taken. That became a stinky situation after a couple of days.
We always store plenty of water (55 gallon drums and other containers) before hurricane season, since we're on a well, too, and I have a horse and other critters that'll also need it. It's easy for us to refill the toilet holding tank with enough water to flush it. We just keep gallon jugs in each bathroom. Baths with a limited amount of water (about 2 gals. heated in a large pot on a grill, mixed with some of the stored cold water)...work well for us to get by. Several neighbors also have large inground pools, so that's another source of water to flush the toilets with.
I live in the woods.We always store plenty of water (55 gallon drums and other containers) before hurricane season, since we're on a well, too, and I have a horse and other critters that'll also need it. It's easy for us to refill the toilet holding tank with enough water to flush it. We just keep gallon jugs in each bathroom. Baths with a limited amount of water (about 2 gals. heated in a large pot on a grill, mixed with some of the stored cold water)...work well for us to get by. Several neighbors also have large inground pools, so that's another source of water to flush the toilets with.
I live in the woods.
I live in what many here would call "the boonies".
When Charlie, Frances, and Jeanne all directly hit us within 5 weeks summer 2004, there were only 5 houses out here on 200+ acres of old pasture land and woods....surrounded by several thousand acres of vacant pasture and woods. Nobody had a pool then. We did what I mentioned above for water, for 8 days after Charlie hit, 6 days with Frances, and 7 days with Jeanne.
Since then, 9 more houses have been built on the 200+ acres, but behind and in front of us is still all woods and pasture. When Irma hit 2 summers ago, and we had no power for 6 days, we did use 10 gallons of water from a neighbor's pool for toilet flushing. The rest was what we'd stashed. Empty 55 gallon drums around here can be had for about $20 each. We're a bunch of experienced "preppers" here in many parts of Florida, during hurricane season especially.
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