[NJARC] How is everyone???? - South Old Bridge

[TrainBee at aol.com]

Here in the historic Washington Crossing / Titusville area, we are still  
without power.  Fortunately, our 5KW generator is keeping us  comfortable.  
The only comfort we don't have is hot water.  Many of  our neighbors have 
nothing.  JCP&L sent a damage assessment person on  Sunday to look over the 
area.  It only took 6 days to have them drive  by.  My next home will certainly 
have gas for heat, etc...  For all of  the PR, JCP&L has not changed.  The 
entire city of Lambertville is  still without power.  This time, this outage 
is costing me more than my  monthly electric bill will all of gasoline I'm 
using.
 
That's the update for now.
Regards,
Joe Devonshire
 
 
In a message dated 11/4/2012 7:52:02 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
salb203 at aol.com writes:

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Hi  Tom,
One word....generator! If it wasn't for my generator only 2500 watts  
continuous, 20 amps, my wife would have never survived. I backfed my generator  
to the outlet on the side of my boiler which in turn powered 1/2 the breaker  
box so my heat worked, refrigerator, dining room, down stairs bathroom,  
kitchen lights, foyer, 2 bedrooms and my porch lights all worked.  I do  use a 
lot of CFL lamps. We also did laundry but I turned off the fridge not to  
overload my generator. Best $200 investment I made last year from Home  Depot.

I have a electric stove so no way my generator would power it so  I shut 
off that circuit breaker, my air compressor circuit breaker and my  central 
air circuit breaker.

Of course, if you back feed a outlet or  circuit breaker panel  with your 
generator, you have to turn off your  main circuit  breaker.

Regards,
Sal







-----Original  Message-----
From: Thomas Lee <thomas_v_lee at hotmail.com>
To: NJARC  <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 6:02 pm
Subject:  Re: [NJARC] How is everyone????  - South Old Bridge


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Hi,
Lost  power on Monday night around 9pm, power came back on yesterday around 
 
1:30pm. Spent 4 nights heating up canned soups over steno, and freezing in  
bed. 
Got so cold my dogs teeth started chattering.  And my dogs took  great 
offense 
when I commandeered their doggie blankets.   Lost  a few shingles, and roof 
antenna got bent up but still picking up TV  stations fine now that powers 
back 
on.  Damage in my area was mostly  limited to some downed trees, and power. 
 

Many gas stations are  open next to me in East Brunswick on route 18.  I 
went 
yesterday  around 11:00am and only waited 10 minutes.  After 12pm lines 
stretched  
on forever.  But in my area if you go super early or very late, you  can 
get gas 
in under 20 minutes for the most part.

Be  safe.

Tom

P.S.  Wife now tolerates my Radio hobby a little  bit more since I had a 
few 50's 
battery transistor radios that were put to  use for a few nights :)





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