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Thenasty:
got my power back last night (Monday night) @ 10:30Pm (been out since Friday 2Pm).

JMB:

--- Quote from: Thenasty on November 01, 2011, 01:44:56 pm ---got my power back last night (Monday night) @ 10:30Pm (been out since Friday 2Pm).

--- End quote ---

I'd love to get mine back tonight, but I don't think it will be. We lost ours Saturday afternoon. First day is fine. Second day is tolerable, after that it just sucks.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on October 31, 2011, 07:41:13 pm ---Good luck to you. I wonder if ChadTower is w/o since he's in Mass.  I knew a few others haven't posted lately and they're from the NE.

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I didn't lose power but most of my town and the surrounding towns did.  There were random pockets of people with power and last report I saw this morning said 9% of my town was still without.  I was lucky this time.  I had power and nobody else on my street did.  Probably because I live on the corner.  Last time I didn't have power for a week but two houses down never lost it.  I did lose phone and internet for a couple days.

This storm didn't drop too much snow but it did just as much damage here as the hurricane did.  Maybe it did more.  It dropped 4-5" of severely heavy snow within a few hours on trees that still had their leaves.  There were 50mph winds.  Trees came down all over the place and took random utility lines down everywhere.

I'm going today to a local wood stove dealer to see if it is viable to have one put in my basement.  Our furnace has an electric blower. If we lose power for a week in the winter we're in trouble.

TOK:
For once, it stayed on!  :dizzy:

I bought a generator a couple years ago after losing power for about 4 days in the Summer. It was awful. Its easier to get warm than stay cool, but I still feel for anyone going through that.

ChadTower:
All I really care about is the heat during winter.  We can make do with or without every other condition.  We have coolers, we can cook outdoors, we can put food out in the shed if it's winter, etc.  The one thing we really cannot do is heat our house without the electric blower controls.  I need to fix that and I'm leaning heavily towards a nonmechanical wood stove for emergency/supplemental heating.  My house really isn't designed with that in mind, though, so I'm researching what the requirements are.  I know you need about 3' clearance all around the stove but am not 100% clear on the venting requirements.  Plus it has to meet code or my insurance company will have a cow.

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