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If you are on a well and septic, as I am, when you are without power, it's sorta a big deal. This is why I have a 14kw standby generator. When Sandy hit, my basement would have flooded without the generator. Some neighbors went 7+ days over a number of storms in the past 10 years. Just throwing a bag of ice in your fridge doesn't cut it. Putting it in a cooler with some, you can keep some stuff but after about day 5, it's a soggy mess. You end up losing most of your frozen stuff and some of your refrigerated stuff. In the winter, you can usually put food outside, but hurricanes and ice storms come in the fall and early winter(where it doesn't get freezer cold) tend to be what takes out the power You can't flush the toilet. I've collected water outside for a flush, but unless you have a direct source, it's an issue You can't take a shower, even a cold shower. Eventually even your LED lantern's or coleman lanterns run out. I have moved temporarily to a hotel for a few days, fortunately the one time I did this I found one near work that had a generator(everywhere else was out). That virtually guarantees you lose the entire fridge/freezer. Yes, I will survive. No I don't want to shit in the woods and not shower. This is why I have a home.

I think I want one...

Recipe calls for crushed pineapple. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Whatever the two ships at the end of the dock are made of, we should make our ships out of.

Russians? Ah Ha! Trump did it!

I've been watching and waiting for this return so long that it's painful. I'm definitely interested, but will wait until they've been out a year or so. Gotta have the bugs worked out and I refuse to pay a premium for a vehicle.

They probably look the same coming out the back end.

A battery bank is the way to go if you have a generator. There's no need to run the genny just to keep a few lights on. I have two battery banks and inverters. I fire up the genny for a hour or two, to get the fridges cold, and I charge the batteries at the same time. Then, when the genny is off, we run off the batteries for lights, charging devices, running a stereo or TV, etc. Then, like every 4 - 5 hours, I'll fire up the genny again, and go through the cycle. During Sandy, we also did a load of laundry during that time and ran the furnace. Running the genny on this cycle, I can go almost 3 days on one tank of fuel. And, I don't have to listen to the genny racket all day long.

I'm going to remove comments & lock this, sorry @45Doll. It's getting (predictably and understandably) political. There's another thread on this in the 1A Lounge started even earlier (if folks want to comment further). Meanwhile, your original post will remain here so that more readers are aware of the issue.

Pretty much the above. I have a generator for well water and heat... anything else is an extra like a warm shower. We can use the stove top and keep some lights on. I shut the gen off at night and if we're not home. I still want to build a battery bank for my wood stove blower with an inverter. I found that on a 29 degree day. If i left my house for work at 7 and returned at 5ish, the house dropped down to 59 degrees with everything off. imagine what the temps would be after 4 days? You can have unlimited Nat gas to your house, but no power no heat. Most people can sweat it out in the summer, a winter outage can be brutal on not just you but your home as well.

Seriously though....Libby canned pineapple?? I can’t believe that company is still around. Next time I see you, I’ll bring you a damn fresh pineapple.

Somehow, this has to be some kind of animal abuse. I'm reporting you to Escoffier

Actually, Pizza Bob's PD has a rubber stamp with all the necessary info on it so they can just bang the permits out. Here's how the background check goes: "Has he done anything since last week?" "No." "OK."

That much I’ll concede....but very reluctantly.

Rotated and switched positions at about the halfway through (30 minutes). Looling good!

I'm making TWO Polynesian Meatloafs!!! The family gobbles them up so quickly I have to make double.

A RETIREE'S LAST TRIP TO KROGER'S Yesterday I was at my local Kroger's grocery buying a large bag of Purina Dog Chow for my loyal pet, Jake, the Wonder Dog, and was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think,I had an elephant? So because I'm retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is, to load your pants pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stopped to pee on a fire hydrant and a car hit me. I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was laughing so hard. Kroger's won't let me shop there anymore. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the world to think of crazy things to say.

Russian hackers?

Fuck Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Iran. Nothing to see here but a lot of dead terrorists that blew themselves up. You will never find out the truth of what happened.