[TheForge] OT -- East Coast correspondents -- how goes H. Irene?

[Andrew Vida]

You can get cheaper ones.  I don't like that route, but if it's what I 
can swing... well.

We don't need no steekeeng electricians!  Actually, hooking them into 
your panel is pretty simple.

On 9/3/2011 6:44 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
> I realize that. We had a generator, but it took Rob until Thursday to
> get it running- and money's just a wee bit tight atm. Did, however,
> look ay generators, and the ones I saw in the 8 KW range were about
> $2000- plus the electrician's fees for setting them up.
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Vida<osan at netlabs.net>  wrote:
>> A decent 8KW generator would have paid for itself right off.  You might
>> want to run out and get one as I hear the next storm, it is feared, may
>> take a similar track.
>>
>> On 9/3/2011 5:59 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>>> We just got electric back. There was no reason for us to be out so
>>> long, other than the greed and incompetence of our local electric
>>> company. They think they want 75 million for clean up? Bull. We pay
>>> the second highest electric rates in the entire US. They cheaped out
>>> on the infrastructure that was the excuse for those rates. Be very
>>> glad guys, that none of you are my congesspersons or electric company
>>> executives.
>>>
>>> But thanks, guys, for being concerned. We were basically just fine-
>>> the difficulty is the $1000 worth of food we lost in the freezers.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Vida<osan at netlabs.net>    wrote:
>>>> Season's just getting started. =8^o
>>>>
>>>> On 9/2/2011 8:44 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>>>>> Glad to hear so many are coping with the storm as I expect a bunch of
>>>>> blacksmiths to cope with . . . Stuff. I'm darned relieved Irene wasn't as
>>>>> bad as she could've been. Still, bad enough.
>>>>>
>>>>> Way to go.
>>>>> Jer
>>>
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