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Old 09-01-2011, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by starflyte1 View Post
I have a 2000 watt Honda generator and a tiny window air conditioner. If the power goes out, I can have a/c in the kitchen and a refrigerator that cools. (not all running at the same time). Most important to the neighbors was the coffee pot.

When the power is out and the temperature is 99 degrees, a generator becomes priceless. We had a large generator when we lived near the gulf, but the smaller will do for us in TV.
Sounds like a plan. Honda is a good brand.

Yes, the coffee would be the first thing missed and really appreciated by your neighbors......for sure. Yours will be the "go to" house in emergencies.

More than twenty years ago, we had an October 4 ice storm up here which knocked out our power for a few days; since this was during fall foliage season, all the leaves were still on the trees........then heavily laden with snow and ice, they all fell at once.............

My husband, like you, was extremely well received by the neighbors when he was able to make not only coffee, but oatmeal, hot cocoa for the neighbors children, soup, etc........on the kitchen Jotul woodstove.

In that house we had prepared for all calamities with the woodstove, the fireplace of course, plus in the basement were two furnaces, one oil fueled and the other a wood burning furnace.........so if the Arabs had raised the price of oil astronomically, we had the wood which would still heat the hot water baseboards and carry heat throughout all the rooms.

Some people up here and in Maine add "gas" so they have electric to start with, fuel oil and wood plus propane gas............all as options for when the electricity goes out. Very few , if any homes, have central air....but down there I would also get the window airconditioner for an emergency if the generator could do that as well as the frig.

Great solutions. Thanks.