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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: JakeStyle on July 01, 2012, 01:20:47 PM
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Star Member Stinky The Clown (46,576 posts)
A taste of third world living
We are among the one million power customers in the Mid Atlantic sweltering through a heat wave made worse by a power outage. Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
The rest of us sit and swelter.
Traffic lights don't work. Drivers are either uncertain and crawling through intersections or dangerously speeding through as if it is their birthright.
The capriciousness of it all is amazing. The little 7-11 has power from the grid while the big supermarket next door is dark. A restaurant has his big billboard sized LED sign ablaze, telling all who pass that he is open (and hopin') for business. A man I know to be foreign born sits at the open door to his gas station's garage bay, sweating in the oppressive heat, with a sign saying his pumps don't work but he will tune your car up for half price, today only.
Freezers full of food are imperiled as we are reduced to cooking outdoors on coals or heating up our houses to blast furnace level as we are lighting stoves with matches.
The dry ice plants that we normally rely on at times like these to help keep our precious frozen food frozen are selling out their stocks, but have no power to make more.
My iPhone, rechargeable in the car, is the new millennium version of a transistor radio. The local all news radio station just announced that the driver called and said he'd just delivered a full truckload of ice to one of the local supermarkets.
I sit here in a bit of a hole between cell towers, writing this on my iPad, knowing I have to drive a bit to get it to connect . . . . . or wait a looooong time for it to go through.
We went to five gas stations earlier today and never did get any gas. Four had no power and the fifth had no gas. Good thing Sparkly's new car gets good mileage. That quarter tank ought to last a while, even as we go driving just to cool off and charge our electrical gadgets.
There's no looting . . . . . so far. I am sure, given the unbearable heat and the extreme boredom, that will happen, too.
People always pull together at times like these.
Until they don't.
I think the looting point is a few days away right now. But it will come. It always does in third world countries.
How'd you like to be the guy in the power company truck, driving through and assessing damage, but not stopping to fix things yet? You think he'll be popular as he drives through, with no answers for you?
So here we sit, a day's buggy ride from the nation's Capitol, with no power, low fuel, high heat, and reduced to cooking on fires, not for fun, but of necessity.
And no one can tell us when it might end.
A million power customers, probably four million people, sitting outside, in the unrelenting heat, just trying to get by.
In what seems just like a third world country.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002884844
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Welcome to Obamaville stinky.
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Stinky The Clown
Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
:bawl: :loser:
Guess some dolt should have thought about that in advance. But there we go with that "thinking and liberals not having anything in common" thingy that keeps popping up.
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Let me know when it hits 120+ and your outside working in it. You haven't seen hot till you had some time in the desert jackoff.
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:bawl: :loser:
Guess some dolt should have thought about that in advance. But there we go with that "thinking and liberals not having anything in common" thingy that keeps popping up.
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He's missing the bright side of all this, his carbon footprint decreases every day he doesn't have power.
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Welcome to Obamaville stinky.
Wasting away in Obamaville
Looking for my lostshaker of salt
Some people plain there's no one to blame
But I think It's Obamas fault.
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Wasting away in Obamaville
Looking for my lostshaker of salt
Some people claim there's no one to blame
But I think It's Bush's fault.
Slight fix. :-)
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Let me know when it hits 120+ and your outside working in it. You haven't seen hot till you had some time in the desert jackoff.
Stinky wants to know if he could just go outside. He's not really down with that "work" shit.
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Stinky wants to know if he could just go outside. He's not really down with that "work" shit.
As long as it's in front of a bus I'd be ok with that.
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Gee, StinkDude, hard luck, eh? At least it should be cooler there in your basement. Wasting amps posting at the DUmp ain't too bright, either.
Typical liberal - unprepared, looking for someone else to save him.
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You sniveling entitled bastard. I suspect a starving girl in Somalia would tell you to take your iPad and iPhone and shove them straight up your fat, hot ass.
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Was he writing about a power outage, or what it would be like after a second term of Obumbles? I'm confused.
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What a effing crybaby. :bawl:
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Hey, stinkdude!
Camping World has Champion 4000 watt generators on sale for $299. I got one for my camper last year, when they were $250.
You should have gotten you one, too! :lmao: Boy Scout motto, dude. "Be Prepared".
BTW, stop whining about "the neighbors" not sharing a "few amps" with you. It's not their job to "take care" of your worthless ass, it YOUR job to take care of YOUR worthless ass. They planned ahead, you didn't. It wasn't raining when Noah started building the ark.
Suck on it. dude!
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LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.
KC
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You have an iPhone AND an iPad? Stupid 1%-er.
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Hope he saves a few amps to call ABM to come save him.
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LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.
KC
From his pre-school whining, I don't think he's been thru a damned thing since he left his mother's womb. :lmao:
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Star Member Stinky The Clown (46,576 posts)
A taste of third world living
We are among the one million power customers in the Mid Atlantic sweltering through a heat wave made worse by a power outage. Our temperatures were hovering at the three digit mark as the only sound apart from the birds were the drones of the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
:thatsright: I could only get this far. Typical liberal thinking: they didn't give me their shit! And this guy is well off too. How do you know they didn't give any to anyone else? I know plenty of people who offered their homes to relatives and friends(which apparently you aren't one to your neighbors and one has to wonder why :whistling:). That aside, perhaps if YOUR president didn't have gas prices still sitting in the 3's with his policies, perhaps people would be more willing to share those amps with you while the fuel is chugged away by that generator. Reap what you sew dummie. I wonder if stinky has offered any of his defrosting meat to feed anyone else in his neighborhood. My bet is he'll let it rot instead of sharing.
Oh and we endured the heat too. It sucked for a while, but we would have survived. what I reminded the kids(and myself) is that people lived in this for 200 years in our state before our outage happened. We would make due. The key I've found is the air circulates better outside. Get in the shade and take out some hand made paper fans and sit with a drink and just don't do a lot of anything. Pop a tent if you need to at night since it's going to be cooler outside then in. Again, stay hydrated.
How'd you like to be the guy in the power company truck, driving through and assessing damage, but not stopping to fix things yet? You think he'll be popular as he drives through, with no answers for you
If that's true, then you are already a foolish, 3rd world mob. Most civilized people understand bombs haven't been dropped and things will be restored in a few days. Crimini, I went through a florida hurricane where we had nothing for a week or more. Amazing I'm still hear to talk about it. :whatever:
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What a jackass.
To answer your question, I've been the guy in the power truck or the arborist that the power guys are waiting on to clear the lines so they can repair them. In my experience over fifteen years and a dozen or more serious storms, people understand, they are helpful, and they will go out of their way to make things easier for us. They understand that we are doing the best we can and I've seen and experienced very little anger between the customers and the power company during a storm emergency. It's more often the case that the customer will throw us their firstborn daughter because they are so happy to see us. :-) (And I've worked storms where people were out of power for a month in freezing temps. Look up canada, '98. Start complaining after your third week without power, you've experienced nothing yet.)
Only a liberal would react negatively to someone doing their jobs.
And what are you doing driving around anyway, stupid lookey loo, scoping out places to loot?
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LOL. Guess he's never been through a hurricane.
KC
1989 hurricane Hugo...went 3 weeks without power and bitched less than Stinky is doing over what, 24 hours.
First night after wasn't bad but then I loaned my welder/generator to 2 families that were worse off than I. There were older, sickly, had freezers full of food and no water(wells). Still managed to stay clean and work everyday.
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Hey Stinky,
Try Florida after a hurricane. It's always easy to distinguish betweeen native Floridians and damn yankees.
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Stinkass needs to STFU.
Boo-effing-hoo, you don't have power. Neither do hundreds of thousands of other people in the area, and they seem to be surviving just fine. Many are at the malls and movies, and the counties have set up cooling centers where you can go, get a shower, get out of the heat. Instead, you bitch about not being able to find any gas for your car as you drive around to charge your expensive gadgets. I'm sure you live near the mall in Columbia, why don't you go there instead of bitching about how horrible your life is? Pansy.
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A generator is something that we really need to get, I keep saying it and I keep putting it off, but I really need to go out and just buy 1. The only thing though, if he could afford an IPAD he could afford a generator, maybe the neighbors who have generators chose to buy that instead of an IPAD?
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You sniveling entitled bastard. I suspect a starving girl in Somalia would tell you to take your iPad and iPhone and shove them straight up your fat, hot ass.
You keep that attitude up missy and he'll start posting about you :lmao:
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If DUmbass Stinky has county/city water that's working, he should thank god and quit bitching. Try doing without clean water for awhile....now you're talking third world country Stinky.
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Sweating away again in Obamavllle
searching for a amp, an ohm, or a watt
some people claim that George Bush is to blame
but i know it's the first wookie's fault.
DC is going to be going all Detroit shortly. Lots of buildings are built without moveable glass and obese folk don't do stairs well. Could become the capital Katrina moment for Obie, aka Hotspur. Call the furries Obie but will they come?
I am camping by a lake myself so if it gets too hot I can just go jump in it! :rotf:
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Hey Stinky,
Try Florida after a hurricane. It's always easy to distinguish betweeen native Floridians and damn yankees.
Yep, went through Andrew. Still remember snaking through a maze of powerlines to get to my mother's house and the smell of rotting chicken in my dad's freezer(he evacuated with his wife at the time to northern Florida). Don't remember exactly how long it was, but it was a good week if not more.
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If DUmbass Stinky has county/city water that's working, he should thank god and quit bitching. Try doing without clean water for awhile....now you're talking third world country Stinky.
Yep we went without in the same storm he got for about a day. Our water worked and we had a breeze that first night and we had food to eat. We were grateful for those things.
Notice he's doing his bitching on a damn iphone...now that's 3rd world right there I tell ya :rofl:
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the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
Is this guy serious? :rotf:
I heard Con Ed was going to go on strike. Enjoy, Stinky.
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How long until they blame O'bama for his inaction?!
Oh, yeah. I forgot. He's not responsible for anything.
KC
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the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
Did DUmmie ever think that maybe they don't have any amps to spare....does DUmmie think a 4,000 watt genset will run a whole neighborhood?
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the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
Did DUmmie ever think that maybe they don't have any amps to spare....does DUmmie think a 4,000 watt genset will run a whole neighborhood?
He's a DUmmy. Its likely that he does think that.
Hey Stinky! You live near the coast...BUY A GENERATOR!
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Stinky needs a cold rag for his big head and not get his tutu all twisted. I'm sure the power company will turn on his affluent neighborhood first. :lmao:
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Stinky needs a cold rag for his big head and not get his tutu all twisted. I'm sure the power company will turn on his affluent neighborhood first. :lmao:
Stinky the Dude is getting anxious- he was in the middle of something when the power went out.
(http://i.imgur.com/4O5WF.gif)
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:thatsright: Dawg...that is soooo wrong!
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:thatsright: Dawg...that is soooo wrong!
He did a bad thing.
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On top of his power going out, Stinky is just pissed that they didn't let him into Bronycon wearing his tutu.
http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/guys-little-pony-gather-bronycon-160957992.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US
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the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
Did DUmmie ever think that maybe they don't have any amps to spare....does DUmmie think a 4,000 watt genset will run a whole neighborhood?
Yeah, that one boggles the mind, even for Stinky's brand of stupid.
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There's no looting . . . . . so far. I am sure, given the unbearable heat and the extreme boredom, that will happen, too.
Because a heat wave is so conducive for looting.
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DU calls to nationalise electricity production/distribution and create "Fair Generator" laws so that this will Never Happen Againâ„¢ in 3....2...1...
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There's no looting . . . . . so far. I am sure, given the unbearable heat and the extreme boredom, that will happen, too.
(http://i1243.photobucket.com/albums/gg546/dummieland2/STINK.jpg)
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:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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Stinkbait should try having to deal without power for 10-13 days while you wait for the streets to be cleard from all the ice that fell the night before. Back in October of 1997 we had an ice storm that killed 8,000 trees in Omaha alone and closed of streets for days. Try getting anyone to fix your power during that little adventure. Also we didn't have a generator then only two fire places to keep warm and fortunatly we had a stack of wood to get us through the first week till someone with a truck could get to us and we live in town. Also we were lucky enough to have a gas stove and were able to use it to heat food .
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Stinkbait should try having to deal without power for 10-13 days while you wait for the streets to be cleard from all the ice that fell the night before. Back in October of 1997 we had an ice storm that killed 8,000 trees in Omaha alone and closed of streets for days. Try getting anyone to fix your power during that little adventure. Also we didn't have a generator then only two fire places to keep warm and fortunatly we had a stack of wood to get us through the first week till someone with a truck could get to us and we live in town. Also we were lucky enough to have a gas stove and were able to use it to heat food .
That sounds an awful lot like the ice storm we had around here in 2009. We didn't get power back for 16 days. I remember they called out the National Guard to help clear things.
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Here is the thing that gets me... they are all into globull warming crap, renewable energy, et-freaking-cetra and this will be the end result. Nobody having any power the hottest/coldest day of the year. So how's that working out for ya dummies? This is what you want? Your little toys not working? No AC? Well you will get it. Me? I like looking across the mountain and seeing the big coal fired power plant there churning out watts by the millions while I turn the AC to 72 when it is 100 degrees and 75 percent humidity outside.
FU and your global warming, renewable energy BS dummies. You want to live in a cave? Go ahead. Not me.
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That sounds an awful lot like the ice storm we had around here in 2009. We didn't get power back for 16 days. I remember they called out the National Guard to help clear things.
I had 11 days without electricity or heat from that storm. Was iced in the first 4-5 days. I kept part of the house warm with portable propane heaters, and was able to cook and heat water on the stove for washing dishes and bathing.
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So basically you're living like my grandparents did, and my parents too when they were very young, and what I myself got a slight taste of when I was still an adolescent. People actually pay to live like that sometimes nowadays and call it a "vacation".
"Third World", my ass. You don't know what Third World is.
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Here is the thing that gets me... they are all into globull warming crap, renewable energy, et-freaking-cetra and this will be the end result. Nobody having any power the hottest/coldest day of the year. So how's that working out for ya dummies? This is what you want? Your little toys not working? No AC? Well you will get it. Me? I like looking across the mountain and seeing the big coal fired power plant there churning out watts by the millions while I turn the AC to 72 when it is 100 degrees and 75 percent humidity outside.
FU and your global warming, renewable energy BS dummies. You want to live in a cave? Go ahead. Not me.
You must be talking about the John Amos plant.
Stinkbait should try having to deal without power for 10-13 days while you wait for the streets to be cleard from all the ice that fell the night before. Back in October of 1997 we had an ice storm that killed 8,000 trees in Omaha alone and closed of streets for days. Try getting anyone to fix your power during that little adventure. Also we didn't have a generator then only two fire places to keep warm and fortunatly we had a stack of wood to get us through the first week till someone with a truck could get to us and we live in town. Also we were lucky enough to have a gas stove and were able to use it to heat food .
Power outages here are few and far between, but you need to be ready for them on the farm. We went without power once in 1978 for 27 hours, and again in 1994 after an ice storm, when the power was off for 51 hours. Both times, we used a 40,000 watt, tractor driven generator to keep things going on the farm. We had purchased it 2 years prior, for just such an occasion. Cows have to be milked, on THEIR schedule, not yours, and not the power company's.
I cut enough wood during the 1994 storm to heat my house for the next 2 years, just clearing the road from my house to the highway.
Today, if things get nasty, I got a 4000 watt generator to power my camper with, and enough propane to heat it thru next year. I've already filled its water tanks, and its fridge and pantry is stocked. Worse comes to worse, I'll hook to it and "go somewhere". It's called "being prepared", stinkdude. Look into it sometime. Barry isn't always going to be there to wipe your ass.
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Well, here's my take on this, seeing as I'm in Springfield, VA, so about 60 miles from Stinky...
After Snowmageddon in 2010, I told my hubby "we should buy a generator". We didn't.
After the ice storm in January 2011, when hubby and kids (I was out of town on business) lost power for 24 hours, I said "We should buy a generator". We didn't.
While waiting for Hurricane Irene last August, I said "We should have bought a generator". We didn't.
In hour 30 of our power outage this weekend, as I threw out a freezer full of meat and veggies, I dropped the drippy, stinky mess on the patio in front of him and said "Go to Home Depot and order a #&%@ generator TODAY!!" It will be delivered to the store this coming weekend.
My neigbhors have generators, but it didn't occur to me to ask for a few amps, because we didn't get off our lazy asses and buy one when we should have. The house stayed quite comfortable (thanks to the new windows we bought last summer), and we were able to stay in communication via my business BlackBerry, which I kept recharged in my big ass, gas-guzzling, Earth-killing SUV.
Power came on at the 37 hour mark, and all is well, except we'll be eating tuna and peanut butter until I get to the store (waiting for roofer right now).
I never once felt that I was living in a third world country, but I did, for a very brief moment, want to send my hubby to one. :rofl:
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I'm trying to emagine stinkDUde withot any sanitary facilities.
He should change his DUmp handle to "ReeksLikeFreshDogShitDUde". :-)
I know what would happen if a neighbor offered to let stinkDUde use a bit of power from their Genset.
StinkDUde would fire up every damn thing in the house, just because he thinks he deserves it for free.
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A small generator to power AC, a refrigerator and a few lights could be had for under a $1000. Why is the smellycatdude such a cheap bastard?
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A small generator to power AC, a refrigerator and a few lights could be had for under a $1000. Why is the smellycatdude such a cheap bastard?
Because. Just because. :rulez:
Next question?
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looks like when the country does go to hell because of Obama we will be the one's that survive :-)
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Why pay for something when you can use legislation to force others to give up their property, livelihood, and liberty?
If the people in Howard County don't have generators, it isn't for lack of money.
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Well, here's my take on this, seeing as I'm in Springfield, VA, so about 60 miles from Stinky...
After Snowmageddon in 2010, I told my hubby "we should buy a generator". We didn't.
After the ice storm in January 2011, when hubby and kids (I was out of town on business) lost power for 24 hours, I said "We should buy a generator". We didn't.
While waiting for Hurricane Irene last August, I said "We should have bought a generator". We didn't.
In hour 30 of our power outage this weekend, as I threw out a freezer full of meat and veggies, I dropped the drippy, stinky mess on the patio in front of him and said "Go to Home Depot and order a #&%@ generator TODAY!!" It will be delivered to the store this coming weekend.
My neigbhors have generators, but it didn't occur to me to ask for a few amps, because we didn't get off our lazy asses and buy one when we should have. The house stayed quite comfortable (thanks to the new windows we bought last summer), and we were able to stay in communication via my business BlackBerry, which I kept recharged in my big ass, gas-guzzling, Earth-killing SUV.
Power came on at the 37 hour mark, and all is well, except we'll be eating tuna and peanut butter until I get to the store (waiting for roofer right now).
I never once felt that I was living in a third world country, but I did, for a very brief moment, want to send my hubby to one. :rofl:
You just reminded me, I need to get a generator.
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Just a suggestion for those with, or planning on buying a generator.
It's a good idea to add STA-BIL to the fuel tank, especially if you're in an area that only sells "goofy gas".
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Well, here's my take on this, seeing as I'm in Springfield, VA, so about 60 miles from Stinky...
After Snowmageddon in 2010, I told my hubby "we should buy a generator". We didn't.
After the ice storm in January 2011, when hubby and kids (I was out of town on business) lost power for 24 hours, I said "We should buy a generator". We didn't.
While waiting for Hurricane Irene last August, I said "We should have bought a generator". We didn't.
In hour 30 of our power outage this weekend, as I threw out a freezer full of meat and veggies, I dropped the drippy, stinky mess on the patio in front of him and said "Go to Home Depot and order a #&%@ generator TODAY!!" It will be delivered to the store this coming weekend.
My neigbhors have generators, but it didn't occur to me to ask for a few amps, because we didn't get off our lazy asses and buy one when we should have. The house stayed quite comfortable (thanks to the new windows we bought last summer), and we were able to stay in communication via my business BlackBerry, which I kept recharged in my big ass, gas-guzzling, Earth-killing SUV.
Power came on at the 37 hour mark, and all is well, except we'll be eating tuna and peanut butter until I get to the store (waiting for roofer right now).
I never once felt that I was living in a third world country, but I did, for a very brief moment, want to send my hubby to one. :rofl:
You must be an amazingly patient woman, most of us would have figured out to slink off and buy one after the first event to avoid all the "I told you sos" from our wives later, even if we never really expected another protracted power outage for the rest of our lives.
:-)
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You must be an amazingly patient woman, most of us would have figured out to slink off and buy one after the first event to avoid all the "I told you sos" from our wives later, even if we never really expected another protracted power outage for the rest of our lives.
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Yeah, she finally just had to "put her meat down".
Dropping the bad meat in front of him. :-) If it was $10 a pound WAL-MART steaks it probably didn't influence him much but if it was some $150 a pound deer meat he had killed...now that would get him moving.
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You must be an amazingly patient woman, most of us would have figured out to slink off and buy one after the first event to avoid all the "I told you sos" from our wives later, even if we never really expected another protracted power outage for the rest of our lives.
:-)
Hell, even though I'm still in an apartment, I went out and got one before Irene came by last year.
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Hell, even though I'm still in an apartment, I went out and got one before Irene came by last year.
We also know if stinky boy had shown a moment of clarity & got a generator, he would be jealously guarding every watt & laughing at his unpowered neighbors.
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We also know if stinky boy had shown a moment of clarity & got a generator, he would be jealously guarding every watt & laughing at his unpowered neighbors.
While syphoning gas from their vehicles. :-)
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While syphoning gas from their vehicles. :-)
They put something in the gas tank filler tube years ago to stop thieves from stealing gas....so now they just knock a hole in the bottom of your gas tank to drain it.
Anything to stop the criminal element...EXCEPT...putting them in jail. Lawyers and judges need the revolving door to make a damn good living off the taxpayers.
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We will be in the market for a generator after we get moved into our house. We have only lost power for a couple of hours after a big storm in Phoenix since living in the desert. Never lost power in Las Vegas yet. But I know if it ever happens, it would more than likely happen in the summer when we need that power the most.
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The answer is simple, pass a tax on people that do not have generators.
Simple solutions for simple minds.
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The answer is simple, pass a tax on people that do not have generators.
Simple solutions for simple minds.
Oh hell yes. :lmao:
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If one is running a generator, how does one "spare" a few amps for a neighbor? Do you put it in a measuring cup or something?
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If one is running a generator, how does one "spare" a few amps for a neighbor? Do you put it in a measuring cup or something?
The liberal neighbors should just do what OWS did... sneak in when nobody is looking and bogart a few electrical outlets.
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The liberal neighbors should just do what OWS did... sneak in when nobody is looking and bogart a few electrical outlets.
Better yet move in with you to "share" AC & ask what time dinner is whilst picking feet.
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I was thinking earlier today and wondered if this is what the average DUmmie is like, then how in the Hell do they think they are going to win the next Civil War/Revolution? They can't even be bothered to get a generator let alone prep for a storm.
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The answer is simple, pass a tax on people that do not have generators.
Simple solutions for simple minds.
Not a tax, a penalty. We need this to cut down on the free riders who want to borrow a cup of amps every time the power is out. :-)
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Typical lib, Stink bemoans the fact that some of his neighbors have generators because they planned ahead, while Mr. DUmbass chose not too install one and is upset that his neighbors won't power his house out of the kindness of their heart. What a f-tard :loser:.
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Typical lib, Stink bemoans the fact that some of his neighbors have generators because they planned ahead, while Mr. DUmbass chose not too install one and is upset that his neighbors won't power his house out of the kindness of their heart. What a f-tard :loser:.
Even worse he feels entitled to some amps from the people who planned ahead.
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Even worse he feels entitled to some amps from the people who planned ahead.
I guess he is just emulating his dear leader, and won't work for something when you can get it for free.
If I was the neighbor of such said DUmmy I would gladly give him all the amps I could...........as long as it was wired directly into his stupid ass. :-)
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the few souls running their generators while not offering a few amps to anyone else.
Did DUmmie ever think that maybe they don't have any amps to spare....does DUmmie think a 4,000 watt genset will run a whole neighborhood?
4000 watts won't even run a house!
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Stinky, with his vast sums of wealth, probably didn't even think to ask if someone would SELL him their generator. You want to play, you pay.
If I was there, I'd be satisfied to sell him my generator for 5X what I paid for it. I can afford to sweat it out for a return on my money.
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A small generator to power AC, a refrigerator and a few lights could be had for under a $1000. Why is the smellycatdude such a cheap bastard?
He's stupid.
$300 will get a 4000 watt Champion generator from Camping World, which would run a window AC, your fridge and/or freezer, and a few lights.
It ain't paradise, but it will give you something else to look at other than the cat's litter box.
BTW, they work best INSIDE the house. That way, someone won't steal it from your back porch. :II:
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He's stupid.
$300 will get a 4000 watt Champion generator from Camping World, which would run a window AC, your fridge and/or freezer, and a few lights.
It ain't paradise, but it will give you something else to look at other than the cat's litter box.
BTW, they work best INSIDE the house. That way, someone won't steal it from your back porch. :II:
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(don't tell them about running the exhaust outside...)
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Where would he budget the $300 from, his tutu or head wax budget?
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He's stupid.
$300 will get a 4000 watt Champion generator from Camping World, which would run a window AC, your fridge and/or freezer, and a few lights.
It ain't paradise, but it will give you something else to look at other than the cat's litter box.
BTW, they work best INSIDE the house. That way, someone won't steal it from your back porch. :II:
(don't tell them about running the exhaust outside...)
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Where would he budget the $300 from, his tutu or head wax budget?
His Obama stash. :lmao:
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What wattage should you get to run a refrigerator/freezer, a basement freezer, and a portable heater and maybe a couple of lights?
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What wattage should you get to run a refrigerator/freezer, a basement freezer, and a portable heater and maybe a couple of lights?
4,000-6,000 watts should do it. The heater will be the biggest consumer, probably around 1,500-2,500 watts.
The fridge about 700, probably 500 for the freezer, and add about 100 each for the lights.
I have a 4,000, and it can power my 26 foot camping trailer, including the A/C, with little trouble (30 amp, 120V service=3600 watts max.)
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4,000-6,000 watts should do it. The heater will be the biggest consumer, probably around 1,500-2,500 watts.
The fridge about 700, probably 500 for the freezer, and add about 100 each for the lights.
I have a 4,000, and it can power my 26 foot camping trailer, including the A/C, with little trouble (30 amp, 120V service=3600 watts max.)
Thanks! I really need to get 1 of these for the winter.
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My sister-in-law lives in Van Wert, OH and they were hit pretty hard with this storm on Friday with no power. She has a backup generator and she said it worked great!
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My sister-in-law lives in Van Wert, OH and they were hit pretty hard with this storm on Friday with no power. She has a backup generator and she said it worked great!
We borrowed 1 1 year and it was awesome, even to just have a little light on in the house, but I really need a higher wattage 1 just so I can plug the portable heater into it, even if it means sleeping in 1 room, that's so much better then being cold in the house or having to bunk with someone.
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We borrowed 1 1 year and it was awesome, even to just have a little light on in the house, but I really need a higher wattage 1 just so I can plug the portable heater into it, even if it means sleeping in 1 room, that's so much better then being cold in the house or having to bunk with someone.
A friend of mine has one of these, or one like it, and says it is pretty good. He likes the 8 120 outlets. Says it is pretty loud though.
Generator (http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200419024_200419024)
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A friend of mine has one of these, or one like it, and says it is pretty good. He likes the 8 120 outlets. Says it is pretty loud though.
Generator (http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200419024_200419024)
The 1 we borrowed was a lower wattage and it was loud as heck.
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A friend of mine has one of these, or one like it, and says it is pretty good. He likes the 8 120 outlets. Says it is pretty loud though.
Generator (http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200419024_200419024)
My grandparent's have one that looks like that. It's very loud. But hey, if it gets the job done, let it be loud. :)
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As our power grid crumbles and lefties continue their war on reasonable power sources like coal and nukes, those that plan for their incompetence are putting in whole house generators. I won't provide links as to not look like a shill, but even HVAC manufacturers like Carrier are peddling them. They can run off a few different fuel sources like natural gas, gasoline, or diesel. Ah hell, check em out-
http://www.xpedio.carrier.com/idc/groups/public/documents/marketing/01-08as-pa8-25.pdf
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My grandparent's have one that looks like that. It's very loud. But hey, if it gets the job done, let it be loud. :)
Yep EC! When it's 100 or 0 degrees inside the house, I can daggone sure put up with a little noise. Hades fire... I can put up with a lot of noise for that matter!!! :cheersmate:
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As our power grid crumbles and lefties continue their war on reasonable power sources like coal and nukes, those that plan for their incompetence are putting in whole house generators. I won't provide links as to not look like a shill, but even HVAC manufacturers like Carrier are peddling them. They can run off a few different fuel sources like natural gas, gasoline, or diesel. Ah hell, check em out-
http://www.xpedio.carrier.com/idc/groups/public/documents/marketing/01-08as-pa8-25.pdf
Chris provided one last year, and it looks pretty good (even without Vera Wang accents).
http://www.cumminsonan.com/
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Okay, I was in burning Kansas when this was happening almost three weeks ago.
Does anybody know how long it was, before the sparkling old dude got his power back? Did he ever mention it?
I'm not going to allege the sparkling old dude is a wimp, unable to tolerate something most of us consider a mere minor irritant, not a life-ruiner. The Italianate race didn't produce wimps--although he's obviously a shame and an embarrassment to his parents of sacred memory, who endured far more than this without whining.
What I am going to allege is that the sparkling old dude's trophy wife, raised in the ease and comfort of affluent ivy-covered academia didn't like it, and was raising Hell about it.
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I don't think he made a post about when his power was restored Frank, but I may be wrong. I tend to ignore his posts unless I see them here.
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His initial complaint gives all the appearance of a husband being yelled at by a wife.
One can almost see the sparkling old dude, desperate to appease her, frantically making "fans" out of typewriter paper, and personally fanning her so as to calm her down.
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Well, I can't find any clue as to when the sparkling old dude's power got turned back on.
But this was at the tail end of the campfire:
Number23 (12,285 posts)
41. Good Lord...
I think the looting point is a few days away right now. But it will come. It always does in third world countries.
Wow. I can't even... wow.
Edit: Reviewing my post, it sounds as though I am agreeing with the OP or can maybe even understand his point of view. In actuality, the privileged cluelessness of the excerpt above and the OP overall is what rendered me almost speechless. In a world where entire villages live without clean water, civil war prevents people from even being able to leave their homes, and children die from treatable diseases like diarrhea, that anyone in America could consider going a couple of days without power the same as being a third world country leaves me utterly astounded.
Stinky The Clown (46,752 posts)
44. What a shitty reply
I wish you ......
Never mind. You clearly missed the whole ****ing point.
Bless your heart, though.
Edit to add: here's a homework assignment. Research the word metaphor.
And again, bless your heart.
Edit again: I figured out what I wish you. I wish you a whole lifetime of literal interpretations of every word you read.
Have a swell rest of the weekend.
Number23 (12,285 posts)
45. More thought went into this post than your OP
There were several people in this thread that made a similar point to mine but I guess you didn't see them. If my "shitty reply" gets you to see how absurd your "metaphor" is, then I'm damn glad I posted it.
Stinky The Clown (46,752 posts)
46. Yes, but you're the Literalist
I shall think of you as nothing more.
L0oniX (13,862 posts)
48. Let me guess ...uhm ...you are stinking right now?
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What I want as an environmentally conscious consumer is a hybrid car that doubles as a generator for power outages, and is flex fuel capable of compost.
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What I want as an environmentally conscious consumer is a hybrid car that doubles as a generator for power outages, and is flex fuel capable of compost.
Well, in my car, if the electrical power goes out in the house, one can sit in it and listen to the radio (if one can hear the radio), or if the air conditioning in the bedroom won't work because of an outage, one can sit in the car and get cool that way.
I suppose there's all sorts of things one can do with the cigarette-lighter in the car, if one has the right attachments--like boil water or make coffee or recharge a cellular telephone if one has one of those.
The problem with the sparkling old dude is his abysmal lack of imagination to "make do."
Actually, I don't believe the sparkling old dude was as discomfitted by a lack of electricity as he made out.
His original comment bears all the trademarks of his being discomfitted by a spoiled brat wife who can't live without electricity, and he's trying to placate her, calm her down.
Remember, for the sparkling old dude's wife, "roughing it" means flying coach rather than first class to Davos, which she's never done before, and ain't ever going to do.
It's an interesting marriage over there, in that affluent lily-white suburb of Baltimore--although alas the phenomenon's not as rare as one wishes it were, when it comes to connubial life.
One partner--either the female or the male--is all upset and bent out of shape because there's a temporary irritant going on, such as a power outage. The other partner--either the male or the female--is a little bit out of sorts too, but is much more worried about soothing the "feelings" of the first partner, and is compelled to take desperate measures to shut up the first partner.
And thus life in the sparkling household.
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Well, in my car, if the electrical power goes out in the house, one can sit in it and listen to the radio (if one can hear the radio), or if the air conditioning in the bedroom won't work because of an outage, one can sit in the car and get cool that way.
I suppose there's all sorts of things one can do with the cigarette-lighter in the car, if one has the right attachments--like boil water or make coffee or recharge a cellular telephone if one has one of those.
The problem with the sparkling old dude is his abysmal lack of imagination to "make do."
Actually, I don't believe the sparkling old dude was as discomfitted by a lack of electricity as he made out.
His original comment bears all the trademarks of his being discomfitted by a spoiled brat wife who can't live without electricity, and he's trying to placate her, calm her down.
Remember, for the sparkling old dude's wife, "roughing it" means flying coach rather than first class to Davos, which she's never done before, and ain't ever going to do.
It's an interesting marriage over there, in that affluent lily-white suburb of Baltimore--although alas the phenomenon's not as rare as one wishes it were, when it comes to connubial life.
One partner--either the female or the male--is all upset and bent out of shape because there's a temporary irritant going on, such as a power outage. The other partner--either the male or the female--is a little bit out of sorts too, but is much more worried about soothing the "feelings" of the first partner, and is compelled to take desperate measures to shut up the first partner.
And thus life in the sparkling household.
Sounds like they deserve each other. :lmao:
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What I want as an environmentally conscious consumer is a hybrid car that doubles as a generator for power outages, and is flex fuel capable of compost.
Join the MARINES and steal yourself a 2/3's size diesel/electric HUMMER.
http://beta.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=354319
The RST-V's hybrid electric drive can provide on-board power generation as a battlefield power source. This system could complement or replace trailer and packaged power generators in many applications, thus improving deployability and reducing the footprint of USMC expeditionary and Joint Forces operations.
General Dynamics Land Systems Advanced Programs Manager Tom Trzaska said, "The Marine Corps has asked us to make reliability and functional changes to the vehicle, including a 30 kilowatt export power capability, to power battlefield loads such as the Unit Operations Center and radars.
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Stinky is well off. He's the one percent.
WHY is he still at home? Take the wife and stay at a hotel where the power works.
I was in Iowa when a summer outage hit. way too hot to sleep, so I stayed at a hotel. I'm not rich but I have money set aside. If I can do this, why can't Stinky?
The inability of liberals to think their way out of a problem is probably why they want a nanny state. The govt will think for them.
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Okay, I was in burning Kansas when this was happening almost three weeks ago.
frank,
Next time you come down, send me a note. I'll meet you for a cup of coffee.
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Join the MARINES and steal yourself a 2/3's size diesel/electric HUMMER.
http://beta.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=354319
The RST-V's hybrid electric drive can provide on-board power generation as a battlefield power source. This system could complement or replace trailer and packaged power generators in many applications, thus improving deployability and reducing the footprint of USMC expeditionary and Joint Forces operations.
General Dynamics Land Systems Advanced Programs Manager Tom Trzaska said, "The Marine Corps has asked us to make reliability and functional changes to the vehicle, including a 30 kilowatt export power capability, to power battlefield loads such as the Unit Operations Center and radars.
Sweet mother of god....................I gotta have one of these :hyper:
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Well, in my car, if the electrical power goes out in the house, one can sit in it and listen to the radio (if one can hear the radio)
People need to have battery operated radios in the house, we have 3 of them, they're not expensive at all, about $10, and they need to have a supply of batteries, I always stock up on batteries when there's a sale.
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frank,
Next time you come down, send me a note. I'll meet you for a cup of coffee.
I thought about it, but given that the ultimate destination was (gulp) Liberal, Kansas, I suspect I was way over on the other side of the state from you. Kansas isn't one of these little itty-bitty states like Maryland, that would barely make a county out here; it's pretty big (as I know you know).
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Sounds like they deserve each other. :lmao:
Well, you know, I can understand the dynamics of that marriage.
The sparkling old dude is much older than his wife (eleven years); in fact, if the sparkling old dude were like the pie-and-jam grasswire primitive, who spawned (in her own words) five generations in sixty years, the sparkling old dude'd be old enough to be his wife's father.
The sparkling old dude comes from an honest workingman's background, while his wife springs from professorial academia, the ivy-covered Ivory Tower and all that.
The sparkling old dude had a rough, tumultuous growing up, on the mob-infested streets and alleys of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and his knuckles probably still have scars on them. Her hands, on the other hand, wouldn't know a callous from a polar bear.
The sparkling old dude is a klutz when it comes to the fine arts; his wife is a dilettante.
So I'm suspecting there's an, uh, element of insecurity here, on the part of the sparkling old dude; that there's a suspicion in his mind that he isn't good enough for her.
He's desperate to keep her, and will do anything to keep her, including folding up sheets of typing-paper into multiple folds to make hand-operated "fans" (such as what we did when toddlers) to wave across her face, to make it cooler for her when it's hot and the power's out.
Or to use the bathroom in the basement so the odor won't offend her genteel nostrils.
I dunno what it is that makes some men slavishly cater to women (or some women to men). There's an old saying, emanating from out in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, "don't expect someone in love to listen to reason." (Although it was said about tumescent mules, not people, working the silver mines there during the 1890s.)
I don't think one-sided catering to one's partner is "love," though. Love is give-and-take, not one partner doing all the giving, and the other doing all the getting.
I think the sparkling old dude could've done better, if he paid attention to his brains rather than something lower down, near the bottom of his torso.
For the record, franksolich has nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for the sparkling old dude, and one of my life's ambitions is to actually sit outside--in that gazebo or shed or whatever it is, in his backyard--with the sparkling old dude, spending an afternoon cordially shooting the breeze about the restaurant business.
I don't know anything about the restaurant business, but the sparkling old dude probably has a whole encyclopedia of stories, anecdotes, and characters he's met in it, and I'd like to hear about them.
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Join the MARINES and steal yourself a 2/3's size diesel/electric HUMMER.
http://beta.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=354319
The RST-V's hybrid electric drive can provide on-board power generation as a battlefield power source. This system could complement or replace trailer and packaged power generators in many applications, thus improving deployability and reducing the footprint of USMC expeditionary and Joint Forces operations.
General Dynamics Land Systems Advanced Programs Manager Tom Trzaska said, "The Marine Corps has asked us to make reliability and functional changes to the vehicle, including a 30 kilowatt export power capability, to power battlefield loads such as the Unit Operations Center and radars.
30 KW??? Wow. The trailered 30 KW generator set does have an engine about the size and power of the Hummer's, but getting that kind of electrical output involves a whole lot of generator attached to the engine for the Hummer to drag around when it isn't being used as a stationary power unit.
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30 KW??? Wow. The trailered 30 KW generator set does have an engine about the size and power of the Hummer's, but getting that kind of electrical output involves a whole lot of generator attached to the engine for the Hummer to drag around when it isn't being used as a stationary power unit.
As best I can remember reading about this 2 years ago.......
It has electric motors in each wheel. Having no axles to speak of gives it higher ground clearance, better traction, used about 2/3's of the diesel fuel of a conventional Hummer and the generator/alternator(?) can be used as a generator when stationary.
ETA: A motor, transmission, axles, rearends and transfer case would probably weigh about the same as a motor and generator plus wheel motors.
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People need to have battery operated radios in the house, we have 3 of them, they're not expensive at all, about $10, and they need to have a supply of batteries, I always stock up on batteries when there's a sale.
But madam, you forget.
A battery-operated radio, or any sort of radio at all, would be about as useful for me as a woman's brassiere.
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But madam, you forget.
A battery-operated radio, or any sort of radio at all, would be about as useful for me as a woman's brassiere.
I've got two, Coach, with flashlights in them. O-) And they're hand-crank operated, so they don't need batteries.
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I've got two, Coach, with flashlights in them. O-) And they're hand-crank operated, so they don't need batteries.
But you need ears to hear the radio.
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I've got two, Coach, with flashlights in them. O-) And they're hand-crank operated, so they don't need batteries.
There you go Frank. It flashes Morse code for the hearing impaired.
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There you go Frank. It flashes Morse code for the hearing impaired.
Thank you, JR--and you've got 6 more H5s to go to get 1000. :-)
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Join the MARINES and steal yourself a 2/3's size diesel/electric HUMMER.
http://beta.ar15.com/archive/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=354319
The RST-V's hybrid electric drive can provide on-board power generation as a battlefield power source. This system could complement or replace trailer and packaged power generators in many applications, thus improving deployability and reducing the footprint of USMC expeditionary and Joint Forces operations.
General Dynamics Land Systems Advanced Programs Manager Tom Trzaska said, "The Marine Corps has asked us to make reliability and functional changes to the vehicle, including a 30 kilowatt export power capability, to power battlefield loads such as the Unit Operations Center and radars.
That's about what we had on the farm for standby power. It was a 70KW peak, 35KW continuous, PTO driven unit we hooked one of our farm tractors to. It powered our 120 head dairy farm, including feeding, milking, and milk cooling equipment, AND our house.
Salesman said we needed a 110+ horsepower tractor to run it, but our smallest tractor would pull it, no problem. (Our smallest tractor was only 92 HP at the PTO.)
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Thank you, JR--and you've got 6 more H5s to go to get 1000. :-)
Make that THREE more.
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Make that THREE more.
Two now! :-)
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Two now! :-)
One left!
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So, Stinky--you get your power back yet? I mean, three weeks and all...I've gone without for longer, but granted that was 20 years ago during Typhoon Omar.
As of late, I've only gone without for a week at a time, or a few days during Hurricane Irene last year.
Guess you should have been prepared, huh?