Important

[Trixie03]

Drove past power company trucks drying around assessing damage. They are gonna be BUSY

 

[Jeepguy91]

This is some of the damage within 1/4 mile of our home.

 

[REWSTER]

 

[Smash Hole]

He is talking about the union linemen.

Eh my dad is already in Peoria, been up for 36 hours hand digging in a foot of mud in 50 mph sustained winds. Probably won't be going on vacation this Friday like he planned. Ya know, because they don't do any work..

 

[Trixie03]

 

[seanR]

Re: Re: Important

Eh my dad is already in Peoria, been up for 36 hours hand digging in a foot of mud in 50 mph sustained winds. Probably won't be going on vacation this Friday like he planned. Ya know, because they don't do any work..

I am not the one who saI'd they don't do any work.
I was telling him why he did not make what we make up here.
I worked for an electrical contractor and spent many a day digging in mud and up in a bucket in the rain. ..

 

[Smash Hole]

I am not the one who saI'd they don't do any work.
I was telling him why he did not make what we make up here.
I worked for an electrical contractor and spent many a day digging in mud and up in a bucket in the rain. ..

Gotcha. Thought this was going to turn into another union pissing contest..

I'm going to go work in the garage

 

[SAMSET]

couple quick pics that i got from the alley.

you can see 3 poles cracked and one tree laying on top of lines.


powers still not on

 

[Trixie03]

Damn!!

 

[BRIANHO13]

The way they do it here is hospitals first then they go to the biggest group of people they can get turned on at a time. I live at the end of the line (one house past mine), we ussually are near the last to get turned back on. The people accross the street ussually have power a day or two before us.

We have a generator and transfer switch.

 

[terrehautian]

Just watched a video of a tornado hitting a radio station that a friend owns and a friend works at in Washington, IN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu74LnznLfs

If I had a go pro and was near one, this is where I would find a sturdy mount and set it up if I had time.

 

[POLAR_JEEP_04]

The storm was pretty short and mild when it made it out here. No damage that I'm aware of. Power dimmed in the shop but never went out. Those pix are crazy!

 

[RAM-ROD]

Got to witness all of the aftermath driving home from Attica yesterday. Pretty intense.

 

[GoSlowGetStuck]

Some places just north of me got some damage and there are lots of uprooted trees, but I fared really well. The only upside is that I've been itching to use my generator and transfer switch for 3 years and I finally got the chance. I woke up around 5 this morning when it ran out of gas, fortunately the power was restored by then.

Has anyone converted a gas generator to run on natural gas, similar to how guys run propane on their trucks? Maybe it's a waste of time for a 7kW generator anyway? It would be nice to not have to go buy gas during an extended outage though, especially when none of the gas stations have power.

 

[altrocker1]

by the time it got all the way out here it was pretty dead...there were some people a little uptight that it would cause some damage, but they are still a little gun shy after last year (very rightfully so)...passed through here with a whisper, didn't even wake me up

 

[XJ&CHZ4ME]

get a diesel generator and run it on used motor oil......ask sean how.

Speaking of which, I have a 6500 diesel generator that is electric start for sale, $650.

Cheese "was not big enough to supply hog barns power" Man

 

[99SJ_Ex]

Buddy came up from La Crosse on Friday and we spent the weekend picking up the twofiddy 5.4 heads from the machine shop and began putting the motor back together. We worked on it an hour Friday night and two hours on Saturday. Got it back up to the heads on, timed (we hope) and front cover on... Timing on these things is ridiculous, but I spun it over by hand 3-4 times and it never felt bad or anything... Hopefully we won't bend too many valves... Also decided to replace the P.S. pump and the high pressure line since they were both covered in crap and appeared to be leaking...


99SJ 'Still made $40 in profit on the whole deal' Ex

 

[macgyvr]

We have a generator and transfer switch.

This!

I can be online with 70% of my house in less than 5 minutes. I have about $700 in my set up (and wiring the transfer switch was a good buy because my dad is an electrician...well depends if you count the free storage he's getting of the Willys in my garage).

The better, but more expensive option, is a natural gas genset that will auto come up when the power goes out. I think Rev has one, that would be awesome!

With battery back up on both garage doors and the house covered, I have about a day without power before I need to run extension cords to the garage to run the fridges with the alcohol

We lose power in the tiny storms that take out a small area, I'm the only one in my area that has a genset. The big storms, somehow we keep power.

mac 'one of my better investments' gyvr

 

[POLAR_JEEP_04]

 

[kmanxj5050]

Gotcha. Thought this was going to turn into another union pissing contest..

I'm going to go work in the garage

The union guys I know do work alot of hours and hard during storm work, the rest of the time is chilling in a truck and then 3 guys watching 1 guy do something. And they all make kick ass money!!