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Okay I work 12 hour days 7 days a week. Yes I heard some vague information about a storm. If everyone wants to make fun of me fine--I hope you have a good laugh.
I'm just curious...during the last hurricane, there was a mad rush for generators with lines out the door at homedepot and other places. Well in the year since then, I see stacks of generators at Home Depot, Costco, lowes, etc. If these are so badly needed by people, why are people waiting till NOW to get them?
I'm just curious...during the last hurricane, there was a mad rush for generators with lines out the door at homedepot and other places. Well in the year since then, I see stacks of generators at Home Depot, Costco, lowes, etc. If these are so badly needed by people, why are people waiting till NOW to get them?
They are the same people who seem to throw away their shovels each year so they have to go and line up and fight for to buy a new one at the first sign of snow.
I'm just curious...during the last hurricane, there was a mad rush for generators with lines out the door at home depot and other places. Well in the year since then, I see stacks of generators at Home Depot, Costco, lowes, etc. If these are so badly needed by people, why are people waiting till NOW to get them?
I think several recent storms that caused widespread power outages are still fresh in there minds. This type of panic buying proceeds pretty much any big storm, but so many people were without power for as long as a week from a big storm during the summer, they don't want a repeat of that.
The same thing happens before big snow storms, people rush out to buy snow blowers and snow plows only to find they are long gone. You need to have the life jackets / life boats on hand in case the boat sinks, not during.
The time to buy a generator has passed. Lucky if you can even find a power inverter
Generator hell. I wanted a 100 foot extension cord so I can leave my generator in the shed and reach the house and when I went to Home Depot there where NO power cords left, not one. Fortunately I worked out an alternative, I picked up the plug ends to make a power cord and used some of my 12-2 wire on hand to make my own extension cord. I occasionally do electrical work for friends or family, so I have 500 foot spools of electrical wire on hand.
Okay I work 12 hour days 7 days a week. Yes I heard some vague information about a storm. If everyone wants to make fun of me fine--I hope you have a good laugh.
Apologies for making a bit of fun of you, the rest of us have been seeing pictures of 100+ person lines of people standing outside hardware stores for generators and grocery stores stripped to the bone for the past 2 days, you're pretty screwed.
Realistically speaking, call every place you know early tomorrow morning and maybe someone will get a shipment. Particularly smaller/less-obvious retailers, like a lawnmower store or that kind of thing.
They are the same people who seem to throw away their shovels each year so they have to go and line up and fight for to buy a new one at the first sign of snow.
Haha...that's the truth. The running gag between my wife and I is to go to Home Depot before each snowstorm and ask if they have any disposable shovels. I don't know what people do with shovels each year.
My guess is people returned them after the storm. I can see a lot of people returning generators after Sandy. The generators are at least several hundred dollars each, some are in the thousands so I can see many people not keeping them.
I just ordered one from california. it will be here tomorrow. but i had to pay extra for the over night shipping.
Sure.
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