Power just went out.........

[Ponce]

But because my my lap top is hook up to my solar power as are my cameras, monitors and night lights this is nothing for me........also have two 6W 12V = 60W light bulbs.

If I am posting this is only (to brag) to give you a heads up about your situation and a tap tap on your shoulder for you also to get ready.

Keep at least a flash light in every room and ways for you to find them.......

There will be a lot of snow this winter and many power lines will come down.......

[Dogman]

Why? Storms?

[solid]

Ponce man up...stop complaining you old bastard!

You should be prepared for this anyway. Go dig some silver...

Cheers!

[General of Darkness]

But because my my lap top is hook up to my solar power as are my cameras, monitors and night lights this is nothing for me........also have two 6W 12V = 60W light bulbs.

If I am posting this is only (to brag) to give you a heads up about your situation and a tap tap on your shoulder for you also to get ready.

Keep at least a flash light in every room and ways for you to find them.......

There will be a lot of snow this winter and many power lines will come down.......

Personally I think this is great info. BE FUCKING PREPARED. Or you can take the route of the FEMA camps are warm tonight.

[zap]

But because my my lap top is hook up to my solar power as are my cameras, monitors and night lights this is nothing for me........also have two 6W 12V = 60W light bulbs.

If I am posting this is only (to brag) to give you a heads up about your situation and a tap tap on your shoulder for you also to get ready.

Keep at least a flash light in every room and ways for you to find them.......

There will be a lot of snow this winter and many power lines will come down.......

HAHAH Ponce, you can't brag to me I only have solar power, if that goes down I got plenty of generators. :)

[Ponce]

Hahahahaha Solid, does it look to you like if I am "complaining".....don't have to dig "up" any silver, always keep about 1,700 oz above ground for emergencies........been there for the past ten years and I havent used it yet.

Dogman? no storm but we do have old cables all over the place......right across from my big picture window I always counted seven power cables (last eleven years) but last week there were only six.......no idea what happened to nuber seven.

Be ready today and you wont be sorry tomorrow........what will be a headache to many it will be only an inconvinience to a few.

[General of Darkness]

Hahahahaha Solid, does it look to you like if I am "complaining".....don't have to dig "up" any silver, always keep about 1,700 oz above ground for emergencies........been there for the past ten years and I havent used it yet.

Dogman? no storm but we do have old cables all over the place......right across from my big picture window I always counted seven power cables (last eleven years) but last week there were only six.......no idea what happened to nuber seven.

Be ready today and you wont be sorry tomorrow........what will be a headache to many it will be only an inconvinience to a few.

So far I've sent you several PM's that were nice and a few replies to your threads that seemed to be nice. Am I on your ignore list? It would be nice to know, so I can respond or not respond accordingly.

[Libertytree]

If his power went out at least he wouldn't be snitching on people or saying he was leaving only to find his fake persona stuck in the door frame, still here cluttering up the place.

[Ponce]

General? and everyone else.......my private dujiky is blank, does not show any messages.......let me go and check it out.

Zap? I have SIX generators.......from 350W to 5,000W and with about 150 gallons of gas in stock.

[Book]

http://www.mediamanageress.com/cuba/hotels/photos/villa-maguana-farmhouse-200.jpg

Now living like a real Cuban...lol.

[Ponce]

Hahahahaha missed you buddy.......

General? still reading my private pm's.......

[gunDriller]

well, i have a wind up radio and some salted peanuts that don't need refrigeration.

[zap]

General? and everyone else.......my private dujiky is blank, does not show any messages.......let me go and check it out.

Zap? I have SIX generators.......from 350W to 5,000W and with about 150 gallons of gas in stock.

Hahha Ponce You do like to brag ! I have told what generators I have, I think we both have the same amount of generators, 3 of mine are 5500 watts, but then I jump up to 10 Kw and 20 kw and I don't know about the welder/generator thats on a trailer. :) my tanks for gas and diesel are only 500 gal each.

[Ponce]

Well Zap like I said before......my favorite one is the little 1,200W two stroke ones....have three of those with two still in the box......living alone I can control what I use and how I use it.

First post of the day............good morning to one and all.

[madfranks]

Glad to see your preps are in good working order, Ponce. When the power goes out it's an excellent opportunity to do a SHTF test run, to make sure you have everything you need, and that it all works.

[Ponce]

LOLLLLLLLLLLLL look what came out today...........I TOLD YOU SO.
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....Early storm pelts East Coast with wet, heavy snow


A classic nor'easter was chugging along up the East Coast and expected to dump anywhere from a dusting of snow to about 10 inches throughout the region starting Saturday, a decidedly unseasonal date for a type of storm more associated with midwinter.

Communities inland in mid-Atlantic states were getting hit hardest. Some place saw more than half a foot of snow. Heavy snow was falling in western Maryland, National Weather Service meteorologist Stephen Konarik said, and 10 inches fell just across the state line in Markleysburg, Pa., though the snow was beginning to taper off as the storm moved north.

More than 250,000 customers lost power in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and utilities were bringing in crews from Ohio and Kentucky to help restore it. Officials had warned that the heavy, wet snow combined with fully leafed trees could lead to downed tree branches and power lines, resulting in power outages and blocked roads.

The snow was difficult for business, too, said Gary Warn, an owner of the Hen House restaurant in Frostburg, Md.

Lunchtime was "dead empty," he said, and he wasn't optimistic about dinner reservations.

"As I'm looking out the window right now, the damage is already done. I don't know," he said Saturday afternoon.

A steady midday heavy snow pelted the field at Beaver Stadium in State College, where No. 21 Penn State was to host Illinois. Mother Nature cooperated with calls for a "whiteout," in which fans wear all white to the game in an occasional tradition for big games at the school. Several inches had fallen by the midafternoon kickoff.

The heaviest snow, though, was forecast for later in the day into Sunday in the Massachusetts Berkshires, the Litchfield Hills in northwestern Connecticut, southwestern New Hampshire and the southern Green Mountains.

"It's going to be wet, sticky and gloppy," said NWS spokesman Chris Vaccaro. "It's not going to be a dry, fluffy snow."

The storm comes on a busy weekend for many along the Eastern Seaboard, with trick-or-treaters going door-to-door in search of Halloween booty, hunting season opening in some states and a full slate of college and pro football scheduled.

Fans in State College were making the most of what school officials said was the first measurable snowfall for any October home game since records began being kept in 1896. The crowds were thinner, but "the die-hards are here," said T.J. Coursen of Centre Hall, an alum.

"I never thought about not going," said sophomore Tim Tallmadge. "You only get to be in the student section for four years."

The snow failed to deter the travel plans of Dave Baker, who's been going to Penn State football games for 45 years and made the 200-mile drive from Warminster, outside Philadelphia. He merely adjusted his packing list: Out went the breakfast fixings — his group ate early at a restaurant rather than at the tailgate — in stayed the burgers and hot dogs. And the cold came in handy.

"I didn't have to buy as much ice for the beer," he said.

Elsewhere outside the stadium, 11-year-old Cody Carnes of Pittsburgh made a large snowball as he sweated underneath five layers of clothes — a rain slicker, coat, sweat shirt, T-shirt and thermal. Another fan wore a foam Donkey Kong costume headpiece as he walked to a tailgate.

"It keeps my head nice and warm," explained Matt Langston, 25, a graduate student from Harrisburg.

In eastern Pennsylvania, snow toppled trees and a few power lines and led to minor traffic accidents, according to dispatchers. Allentown, expected to see 4 to 8 inches, is likely to break the city's October record of 2.2 inches on Halloween in 1925.

Philadelphia was seeing mostly rain, but what snow fell coated downtown roofs in white. The city was expected to get 1 to 3 inches, its first measurable October snow since 1979, with a bit more in some suburbs, meteorologist Mitchell Gaines said.

"This is very, very unusual," said John LaCorte, a National Weather Service meteorologist in State College. The last major widespread snowstorm to hit Pennsylvania this early was in 1972, he said.

"It's going to be very dangerous," he added.

The storm also led to hours-long delays at several airports Saturday, including Philadelphia's as well as two that serve New York City, Newark Liberty and Kennedy. Flights headed to New York's LaGuardia weren't allowed to depart until midafternoon. The smaller airport in Teterboro, N.J., was closed.

Southern New Jersey was soaked with heavy rains and winds that ranged from 20 to 35 mph Saturday morning, while northern communities awaited the arrival of 5 to 10 inches of snow. Scattered power outages were reported across the state, and Jersey Central Power & Light, which was heavily criticized for being too slow to restore power following Hurricane Irene, had hundreds of workers set to be deployed if needed.

Parts of New York saw a mix of snow, rain and slush that made for sheer misery at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, where drenched protesters hunkered down in tents and under tarps as the plaza filled with rainwater and melted snow.

Technically, tents are banned in the park, but protesters say authorities have been looking the other way, even despite a crackdown on generators that were keeping them warm.

"I want to thank the New York Police Department," said 32-year-old protester Sam McBee, decked out in a yellow slicker and rain pants. "We're not supposed to have tents. We're not supposed to have sleeping bags. You go to Atlanta, they don't have it. You go to Oakland, you don't have it. And we got it."

October snowfall is rare in New York; there have been just three October days with measurable snowfall in Central Park in the last 135 years when record-keeping began, according to the National Weather Service. The largest on record was in 1925 when eight-tenths of an inch fell in Central Park.

Along the coast and in such cities as Boston, relatively warm water temperatures along the Atlantic seaboard could keep the snowfall totals much lower, meteorologist Bill Simpson said, with 1 to 3 inches of snowfall forecast along the I-95 corridor. Washington was expected to get just a dusting.

But October snowfall records could be broken in parts of southern New England, especially at higher elevations, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Simpson said. The October record for southern New England is 7.5 inches in Worcester in 1979.

Rain and snow were due to begin falling on Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine during the day, with the heaviest snow falling overnight. Parts of southern Vermont could receive more than a foot.

The first measurable snow in New England usually falls in early December, and normal highs for late October are in the mid-50s.

"This is just wrong," said Dee Lund of East Hampton, Conn., who was at a Glastonbury garage Friday getting four new tires for her car before a weekend road trip to New Hampshire.

Lund said that after last winter's record snowfall, which left a 12-foot snowbank outside her house, she'd been hoping for a reprieve.

But not everyone was lamenting the unofficial arrival of winter.

Two Vermont ski resorts, Killington and Mount Snow, planned to start the ski season early by opening one trail each over the weekend, thanks to the recent snow and cold. Maine's Sunday River ski resort also opened for the weekend.

In State College, 14-year-old Mac Charvala and his brother Will, 10, of South Orange, N.J., were using new boogie boards to slide along an inch of slushy snow covering a parking lot, where a slow trickle of cars left plenty of space for them.

"We've never been to a snow game before," said their father, Mike. "It's an adventure. If you don't want to have fun, stay home."

[Ponce]

Hey Zap? I just found generator #7 under a pile of clothing.....I keep finding junk all the time, I forget that I have something and I buy another one.........sometimes is good to be senile :)

[zap]

Hey Zap? I just found generator #7 under a pile of clothing.....I keep finding junk all the time, I forget that I have something and I buy another one.........sometimes is good to be senile :)

You shouldn't brag its not very becoming, I don't count the other 3 I have, cause one is a 24 volt dc (Military type) generator, 1 is a 1950 honda, my late father inlaws and still runs great, and the other one up the road just sits in that barn. :)

Its good to have generators, but my solar is the main source of power here. There are no power lines here or anywhere close.

[solid]

Its good to have generators, but my solar is the main source of power here. There is no power lines here or anywhere close.

Generators really are a temporary solution actually. The solar is the way to go. I just have one gen, a portable honda ex650, small little guy, that will charge my batteries if needed. I've got the diesel onboard as well, though the alternator is rated low, making it a bad option.

I have solar, uninstalled, that is rated for 240 watts, more than enough for my humble existence. It's refrigeration that the power consumer for me, my refer I tested she draws 6-7 amps, 12 volt when on. That's an easy 100 amp hour day, just for the refer. If the solar can give me 20 amps for 10 hours out of the day...I'd be good to go.

[Ponce]

Same here Solid, I love my 120W solar panel and my three 45W's from Harbor Freight........two of those three has been on ever sinse I bought them and used them for my comp, my 4 tv cameras, camera lights, monitor and two LED's bulbs.

Four of them is for trading because I know that someday gas will be like silve.......it will be then that I will trade my silver for gasoline.........like the owner of the only service station told me "As long as you have silver you will always have gas".....I guess that I'll have gas for the rest of my life hahahahahahahl.

[zap]

You are right Solid, my system consists of 20- 180 watt panels a 48 volt trace inverter and 3 forklift batteries rated at 1341 Ah. I think the system is approx 3.5 kw it runs the fridge just fine, we had a sunfrost fridge and I hated it , we have a regular one now and I just looked and it is rated at 7.9 A, I guess that is amps.

I run everything with the power I have. toaster, microwave, blow dryer, computers, hotwater heaters,tv everything except the central heating especially during the night it would suck all the power out of the batteries.

In another thread I posted about the tv and the dish box the old tv which was a lcd flatscreen took 4.5 amps the new one same kind only takes 1.4 so that is a big load off, batteries seem to be keeping up well with the load I have on them. Got home a while ago and just went out and checked and the batteries are at 50.8 which is 100% full.

[solid]

Same here Solid, I love my 120W solar panel and my three 45W's from Harbor Freight........two of those three has been on ever sinse I bought them and used them for my comp, my 4 tv cameras, camera lights, monitor and two LED's bulbs..

I remember that thread you created Ponce, and came real close to jumping on those harbor freight panels you posted. That was a great deal. I ended up getting 2 120 watt panels, and a smart controller, for a good deal though. My delay on the install, is the mounting of them. I keep dreaming up a canvas bimini top to provide shade, and installing the panels on top of that. The panels are a good 4 feet by 2, and could provide good shade for the relaxed sailor, if he did it right.

[solid]

You are right Solid, my system consists of 20- 180 watt panels a 48 volt trace inverter and 3 forklift batteries rated at 1341 Ah. I think the system is approx 3.5 kw it runs the fridge just fine, we had a sunfrost fridge and I hated it , we have a regular one now and I just looked and it is rated at 7.9 A, I guess that is amps.

Wow wow wow. Zap, those numbers are quite staggering to me actually. Very impressive. My house battery bank, just for comparison...the whole bank, is less than 1/4 of ONE of your forklift batteries.

[zap]

Wow wow wow. Zap, those numbers are quite staggering to me actually. Very impressive. My house battery bank, just for comparison...the whole bank, is less than 1/4 of ONE of your forklift batteries.

Yes Solid, but you got to remember we have been fighting (and experimenting for 20 years,) Finally I got enough power !

[Neuro]

Yes Solid, but you got to remember we have been fighting (and experimenting for 20 years,) Finally I got enough power !

Lol, not many women will have blow dried hair when TSHTF! :)

[Ponce]

I really don't know what you guys are talking about when you use numbers when talking about power.....all that I know is that I have all the power that I need for my everyday use and when the time comes I'll use my 5,000W generator for an hour a day for my frig and freezers........

[Joe King]

Lol, not many women will have blow dried hair when TSHTF! :)I guess not many women are the Queen of the Mountain, either. :)

[zap]

Lol :)

Talking about blow drying hair brought back the good old days ( not ) when I went out front to my car to blow dry my hair with the heater, I could always use the curling iron inside it didn't take much power.