Power outages.......

One thing is for certian.

If the system no matter what it is is not automatic, its worthless if
no one is there to plug it up an dturn it on in the case of a power
outage. With a UPS its possible to have certain key componnents
plkugged into it. It may not power everything, but if just the key
items are used, it shuld run for a few hours unsupervised and
automatically. All those portable battery operated pumps, and gen
sets are worthless if no one is home to use them when the time comes.
Whole house generators are still a decent buy and are quite
resonable......Lowes and Home Depot have some good prices on fully
automatic gen sets, nfor under 4 grand if you own a home. Of course a
setup as such leaves out a typical home renter or aprtment
dweller....But its sure nice to have a large tank of LP outback hooked
up to a propane powered gen set that is fully automatic.

Then again a whole hose gen set is kind of useless in lots of
scenerios if there is no house left anymore as in hurricanes and
tornados. Its a decision each home owner/ aprtment dweller etc has to
make for themselves, and then there is always those that really could
care less as hell its only a fish.

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:04:56 +0000, Gill Passman
wrote:

Tristan wrote:
It may have come accross as sounding like a person is irresponsible if
they lived in the miami or any storm prone reigon and did not not
have a gen set, but thats not the way it was intended....Its just as
cheap and common as they are anymore and just having one in such an
area that is prone to storms etc where power can be out for long hours
or days or weeks, they sure can make the difference in living ease,
from a couple of different points of voiew, be it just to keep food
cold and have a cold drink or a cup of hot coffee or ability to use a
hot plate or micro wave to cook an egg or two and of course power up
a aquarium can really help a person beat the blues, when there is
absolutely no way to keep cold drinks or hot items etc ...Been there
done that already......Just the ability to turn on a light makes a big
difference in power outage times.....Fuel is not usually a problem as
much as some would beieve either....During hurricane Fredrick, gen
sets were pretty well needed as power was out for over a month, and no
gas stations could pump gas, but it was easy as pie to acquire fuel.
Same thing with David and Ivan and a few other major storms.


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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!

Nicely said.....in fact I would view the human comforts in the end as
being the most important as they are often a matter of life and death
for those afflicted.....food and drink being the essentials of life let
alone the comfort and hope that they can give.....as this is a fish
group we can take as read that the welfare of our creatures is also of
big importance....and the joy of being able to do the best for our pets
also helps gets us through things......maybe a generator is the best
option for some but something as simple as a car battery (power
rationed) is cheap for those not able to afford the ideal....

My heart goes out to those of you that have to suffer in this way......I
am very lucky that it isn't an issue for me......

I hope that noone demeans themselves to troll this thread.....that would
make them the lowest of the low IMO.....

Gill



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I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know!