@Cerridwyn@Kyeh I put wireless temperature sensors with alarms in my freezers so I don’t have to guess or open the door to check. Also helps to alert someone if the door was somehow left ajar.
For me, it’s having to dig out the generator and run the heavy extension cords to power the freezer, the fridges, the microwave, some lights, and a couple of fans. (And charge up the various power bank units.) So far, we haven’t had an outage here that was long enough to make me want to power the washer and dryer. Since we use gas for the range, oven, and water heater, that functionality tends to be failure-resistant.
At this point, we’ve accumulated enough large power banks to provide lighting and such after dark, so I only run the generator during the day. It’s not big enough to power the AC, which will become more of a problem as time goes on.
We’re on well water. When the power goes out →no running water→no flushing.
We do have a little luggable generator we can hook up to the well (and just the well) but typically when the power goes out it’s during weather unpleasant to go out in dragging a generator across the acre to the wellhouse. The power likes coming back about 15 minutes after we’ve gotten the generator set-up and dried ourselves off and demuddied our footwear.
WE LOVE LINECREWS FIXING POWER OUTAGES!
Stay Safe, heroes!
the quiet??? generators are NOT quiet. i dont use one but i hear the neighbors’. despite that, i don’t mind a power outage for a day or two. gas water heater + wood stove = no problems. summertime power outage is a bit worse if the freezer and fridge stuff goes bad
@Kyeh@spacemart I have two neighbors with whole-house auto-switching generator units that aren’t loud at all. By contrast, my own 8kW unit would keep us awake if I ran it at night, so I don’t. Conveniently, the tank is good for right at 13 hours of operation with typical loads, so I usually fill it up in the morning and then just run it until it shuts down.
I hope to be able to budget for payments on a whole-house unit in 2027, assuming I can budget for a new roof in 2026. (Neither of these things is even remotely certain right now.)
No power.
Worrying about is it going to come on before the crap in the refrigerator goes bad
@Cerridwyn This!
@Cerridwyn @Kyeh I put wireless temperature sensors with alarms in my freezers so I don’t have to guess or open the door to check. Also helps to alert someone if the door was somehow left ajar.
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KuoH
No lights
Food spoiling in the fridge.
Losing control
/giphy I have the power
Anxiety my phone battery is going to die before the power comes back home (and wishing I had bought one of those Meh power banks).
That the power will eventually have to come back on.
My CPAP stops, preventing me from sleeping the outage away!
@ratman
Yeah, that extra sucks - Spouse has that hassle, too. And then neither of us can sleep the outage away.
For me, it’s having to dig out the generator and run the heavy extension cords to power the freezer, the fridges, the microwave, some lights, and a couple of fans. (And charge up the various power bank units.) So far, we haven’t had an outage here that was long enough to make me want to power the washer and dryer. Since we use gas for the range, oven, and water heater, that functionality tends to be failure-resistant.
At this point, we’ve accumulated enough large power banks to provide lighting and such after dark, so I only run the generator during the day. It’s not big enough to power the AC, which will become more of a problem as time goes on.
The protective force fields all shut down.
(You’ve seen Enterprise vs Klingons and know what a bitch that is???)
@phendrick It’s the lack of the deflectors that’s really scary; those incoming photons can be amazingly energetic.
We’re on well water. When the power goes out →no running water→no flushing.
We do have a little luggable generator we can hook up to the well (and just the well) but typically when the power goes out it’s during weather unpleasant to go out in dragging a generator across the acre to the wellhouse. The power likes coming back about 15 minutes after we’ve gotten the generator set-up and dried ourselves off and demuddied our footwear.
Stay Safe, heroes!
the quiet??? generators are NOT quiet. i dont use one but i hear the neighbors’. despite that, i don’t mind a power outage for a day or two. gas water heater + wood stove = no problems. summertime power outage is a bit worse if the freezer and fridge stuff goes bad
@spacemart Yeah, 2 doors down from me they have a full house generator that goes on automatically even for short outages, and it’s LOUD.
@Kyeh @spacemart I have two neighbors with whole-house auto-switching generator units that aren’t loud at all. By contrast, my own 8kW unit would keep us awake if I ran it at night, so I don’t. Conveniently, the tank is good for right at 13 hours of operation with typical loads, so I usually fill it up in the morning and then just run it until it shuts down.
I hope to be able to budget for payments on a whole-house unit in 2027, assuming I can budget for a new roof in 2026. (Neither of these things is even remotely certain right now.)
When the power goes out, I lose the ability to turn the TV up proportionally to the mouth of my wife so as to drown out her voice.
The worst thing about a Power Outage is not knowing when the power will come back on…