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Hate to play the "you should see it up north" card, but we lost power in the winter for a week+ on multiple occasions. One memorable time we stayed in the house for the entire period because we were stubborn and didn't want to bother our parents with us and our dog and cat. It was in the 40's in the house and we had about 5200 candles lit. We wore jackets to bed it was crazy. Good times.
Yeah you shouldn't play that "you should see it up north card" because that can happen here in the winter too. It ain't pretty here either.
I much prefer a hurricane power outage. At least it's warm then. Suck for the food in the fridge, though.
I've endured extended power outages after/during a hurricane (Fran) and an ice storm (2002?). Both times, we were without power for over a week. I can't say which is worst; freezing or hot. Both are terrible.
Now we have a whole house standby generator waiting to go to work if necessary. For the sake of others, I hope it doesn't need to crank up. But if there is an outage, we will be perfectly fine even if the rest of our part of the town is without power.
People scoffed (in another thread) about how expensive they are and why the need for one. Now is the time. I feel secure.
Sure it *could* happen, but you're not seeing temps under freezing for many days in a row here.
Not at the moment, but it can and does happen and somewhere I have the photos of frozen soap bubbles to prove it! But no, of course we don't have the sustained cold temps that more northern places do. It can get downright uncomfortable here if the power goes out in the winter, though.
I've endured extended power outages after/during a hurricane (Fran) and an ice storm (2002?). Both times, we were without power for over a week. I can't say which is worst; freezing or hot. Both are terrible.
Oh Fran was bad bad bad, but I much preferred that time of year to have a power outage. I think our road was impassable for 10 days and no power for the duration of that, but you could walk places that did have power and the weather really didn't bother me. Cold weather sucks.
People scoffed (in another thread) about how expensive they are and why the need for one. Now is the time. I feel secure.
Have been thinking about getting one. Have started to grow tired of Apex power blips that aren't even storm related. Wish they would bury more lines, especially in the older neighborhoods.
When we have an extended power outage, I just find the nearest hotel with power and a vacancy. It happens so rarely, and is much cheaper than a whole house generator for something that occurs once a dcecade.
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