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Power outage in the NE US. Share your experience.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#21 - 2012-07-09 18:33:15 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
Shameless Avenger wrote:
Psss bunch of noobs... get a nice cat 5+ hurricane and live without energy or water for 3 months and then we can talk. Dealing with the toilet management alone deserves a medal for bravery.



I was raised by wolves in the wilds of Alaska for 10 years. No toilet, no shower, no blankets, and I had to kill my own food.


I was raised by wild turkeys in the amazon Bear

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Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#22 - 2012-07-09 20:44:52 UTC
Shameless Avenger wrote:
Psss bunch of noobs... get a nice cat 5+ hurricane and live without energy or water for 3 months and then we can talk. Dealing with the toilet management alone deserves a medal for bravery.



this is why you evacuate when the NWS tells you to get the hell outa dodge.

EVE is like swimming on a beach in shark infested waters,  There is however a catch...  The EVE Beach you also have to wonder which fellow swimmer will try and eat you before the sharks.
Alpheias
Tactical Farmers.
Pandemic Horde
#23 - 2012-07-09 21:25:56 UTC
I am in Sweden so I can't say I care much about your experiences. Now, excuse me as I am going to enjoy watching the weather forecast in the US. P

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Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#24 - 2012-07-09 21:37:17 UTC
Alpheias wrote:
I am in Sweden so I can't say I care much about your experiences. Now, excuse me as I am going to enjoy watching the weather forecast in the US. P

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Olleybear
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#25 - 2012-07-09 22:03:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Olleybear
Shameless Avenger wrote:
Psss bunch of noobs... get a nice cat 5+ hurricane and live without energy or water for 3 months and then we can talk. Dealing with the toilet management alone deserves a medal for bravery.


What did you do for those 3 months without energy, water, or toiletries. What did you use to cook food, boil water for coffee, take showers, and do laundry? Was there a grocery / gas station within reasonable driving distance? Did you use simple flashlights at night, rely on the full moon when you could, have some solar rechargeable batteries or simply have a stockpile of batteries?

My questions are designed to see how you handled the situation or to see if your just being funny.

In regards to the solar panel on the roof idea to run my water well pump. After giving it some thought, I do not think getting a solar panel on the roof plus the batteries needed to store the energy at night for pumping water is a good move. If the solar panels were to supplement my current electrical use, then perhaps. Looking at a natural disaster scenario in which those panels could be damaged by flying debris ( 80mph straight line winds are nasty ), I think a hand operated water well pump is going to be much more sturdy in such an event and more reliable in my opinion.

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Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#26 - 2012-07-09 22:21:36 UTC
problem is a hand pump cannot supplement a modern well. the hand pumps with the levers at least might do 10-20ft at best. When we had a house with a well the pump hung 310 feet below ground or just around 100m.(The electric pump for a water well is actually in the well, well any properly designed well uses submersible pumps and not those pieces of crap sitting in a basement that always lose prime)

EVE is like swimming on a beach in shark infested waters,  There is however a catch...  The EVE Beach you also have to wonder which fellow swimmer will try and eat you before the sharks.
Olleybear
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#27 - 2012-07-09 23:50:50 UTC
Viktor Fyretracker wrote:
problem is a hand pump cannot supplement a modern well. the hand pumps with the levers at least might do 10-20ft at best. When we had a house with a well the pump hung 310 feet below ground or just around 100m.(The electric pump for a water well is actually in the well, well any properly designed well uses submersible pumps and not those pieces of crap sitting in a basement that always lose prime)



Apparently hand pump wells have changed a bit. You can get them to go down 300+feet. Looking at the pricing though is making my wallet ache. It would be much cheaper just to buy a generator. Hell, the expensive price tag is making me rethink the solar option. LoL.

When it comes to PvP, I am like a chiwawa hanging from a grizzley bears pair of wrinklies for dear life.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#28 - 2012-07-10 08:09:08 UTC
Olleybear wrote:
Viktor Fyretracker wrote:
problem is a hand pump cannot supplement a modern well. the hand pumps with the levers at least might do 10-20ft at best. When we had a house with a well the pump hung 310 feet below ground or just around 100m.(The electric pump for a water well is actually in the well, well any properly designed well uses submersible pumps and not those pieces of crap sitting in a basement that always lose prime)



Apparently hand pump wells have changed a bit. You can get them to go down 300+feet. Looking at the pricing though is making my wallet ache. It would be much cheaper just to buy a generator. Hell, the expensive price tag is making me rethink the solar option. LoL.


Could always get a windmill and a very large battery for the next time one of these blows throughLol
Cierejai
Biofuel Productions
#29 - 2012-07-10 13:00:26 UTC
Make/buy a bicycle generator. Don't have to worry about solar panels blowing away/running out of gas for a generator.
Theron Urian
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#30 - 2012-07-10 17:06:58 UTC
I live in Ohio. Lots of large trees down, power poles down and hitting cars with jumping live power lines (Multiple people pinned and injured), Transformers blowing and catching fire.

Power was out in lots of areas around my house but thankfully our grid stayed up, and our house became a hotel for family and friends with out power in the 90-100 degree heat.

Pretty crazy stuff.
Theron Urian
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#31 - 2012-07-10 17:11:43 UTC
Domer Pyle wrote:
ohio ftw. my power went out for a couple seconds on the 29th, and the internet was down for a while, but that was it.

oh, btw, anyone in here know any good bars in phoenix?


Lol its really odd, there are parts that look pretty roughed up and other parts that look totally fine as if nothing happened.
Alain Kinsella
#32 - 2012-07-11 09:55:51 UTC
Micheal Dietrich wrote:
As to the car, aside from the AC/DC difference, I would like to point out that a good chunk of your cooling comes from the vehicle moving as air enters the engine compartment and gets blown out under the car. Given that the car would be stationary I'd say you would have about an hour before the engine overheats and seizes up.


This came up in the PriusChat forum several years ago, I believe one person was able to make his work (don't remember for how long but it was several hours). Hybrid cards have an advantage there since the Main Battery will run the DC socket (which you'll attach a normal AC converter), and in turn the gas engine turns on now and then to recharge the Main Battery.

Its a horrid kludge though.

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Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#33 - 2012-07-11 15:16:25 UTC
the bigger issue with using a car other than the sheer amount of fuel a car guzzles is that cars do not generate even as much power as one of those generators on wheels from a hardware store. The alternator in a car is really only making enough to run the car and accessories and likely could never even really run much more than the load of some lights or a computer. In truth if one lives in an area with power issues a standby generator might be a better option.


That said during the great 2003 Northeastern blackout I ran some lights and a laptop off my pickup truck for a few hours, even drove it over the yard and used the offroading lights so I could swim in our pool at night.

EVE is like swimming on a beach in shark infested waters,  There is however a catch...  The EVE Beach you also have to wonder which fellow swimmer will try and eat you before the sharks.
baltec1
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#34 - 2012-07-11 16:02:26 UTC  |  Edited by: baltec1
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