Wayne and Harry got this in an Email

Just got my connection back POTS was down for a week and that is
shocking to me. It went down the morning after the storm. DAMIFINO ?
The whole neighborhood was out.
Surviving the aftermath is tougher than the hurricane for us but we
are actually doing fairly well. Other than hot water and central air
we are doing OK on 5.5KVA of generator power, connected to the house.
I have pretty much all of the house breakers on so all of the light
switches work, coffee maker, toaster etc and with a little discipline
we don't trip the breaker on the generator often. The killer is the
locked rotor of big motors. Sometimes I have to turn something off,
get the generator going and turn it back on. With a little planning we
have water (needs 2 pumps), 2 fridges, pool is blue and all of the
TVs, PCs and such will run. (even the tunes in the tiki bar). We cut
the boat out of the fallen trees on Wednesday and got out. We have
been picking up debris in the river for a couple days and have it
pretty much cleaned up. I have found 3 Ace boat lift motor covers so
far and returned one to a neighbor missing one already. Other than
that I have a fender (I find them often anyway) and a "Brute" trash
can with the lid.
We are cooking on the gas grille, side burner and another big propane
burner. We are not missing any meals but I have lost some weight, just
form working. We are going to end up with a lot more hort debris than
we had with Charley and we had 3 Mexicans helping is then. I am just
hooking a chain to it and hauling it to the lot next to our house. The
yard is taking a beating. The generator thing worked out great. I had
the transfer equipment installed with a cord out under the car port
looking deal on the far side of the garage. I hung 2 mover's blankets
on both sides of the generator and that really holds the noise down. I
did have to adjust the governor because it was putting out 57hz AC but
I still have marginally low voltage (~110).
I was OK with the 8 cans of gas I had in the shed plus one I bought
(actually bought 3 but 2 are still in the shed) for 5 days, running
most of the time. Since Friday when I put the propane kit on it I have
not turned it off. It does seem to eat a lot more propane than gas
tho.
Gas has returned to normal now, we were 1974 for a while here tho.
(Lines for gas, rationing, not many places with any gas or even open.)
I managed to miss that whole thing. The first tome I went to buy gas
the Russians up at the end of our street had one lane open that was
really only easy for the locals to find and I drove right up, bought
my gas and left. The 14 or 15 people in line were wondering how I did
that ;-)

The 2 things that are really saving us is the mini split AC in the
bedroom and the pool. If you have AC to sleep and a pool to jump in,
it is not really that bad. I am planning on rewiring the water heater
to put both elements in series (with a switch to put it back to
normal) It will take a long time to heat up but it will do it on
about 1100 watts instead of 4500.
I also have a relay already wired in to stage the startup of the well
pumps but the dirt daubbers got into the box and killed it so I could
not use it ... bummer.

Bottom line is it wasn't that bad I guess.
Still waiting for power tho.

I have some hurricane video of the eye wall coming over, other
pictures of the storm and I will get them up on my web site soon.
You folks up north, watch out for Jose.
This may be the first time 3 major hurricanes hit the US in direct
succession (H, I and J)
Old Joe will probably be down to Cat 1 by the time it gets there but
Harvey was cat 2 or 3 in Texas and Irma was Cat 3 over my house
according to NBC-2. I don't know but it was pretty ****ing windy ;-)

On 9/18/17 2:01 AM, wrote:
Wayne and Harry got this in an Email

Just got my connection back POTS was down for a week and that is
shocking to me. It went down the morning after the storm. DAMIFINO ?
The whole neighborhood was out.


Glad you and yours survived and your damage and inconvenience are
manageable.