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hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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Stokely said:
I can tell you it sucks to have no power for several days in the fall in Florida (which is about like the summer). We are installing solar + battery partly for that reason...for better or worse, the wife's idea mainly and she's been killing it this year with realty, so...

Climate change means storms will probably continue to get worse and more frequent in the years ahead (and not just in the south).
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Where I live, the power goes out somewhere between November and January when the big lows show up, sometimes with hurricane winds. Really sucks if it comes around from the north, as most weather normally comes from the southwest and the trees are used to it. So instead of dying in the heat, you get to freeze.
 
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Roger Wilco

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Models are starting to warm up to cat 4.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431333044619726853

New Orleans is now issuing mandatory evacuations for anyone outside of the levee protection system built after Katrina, which is not designed to withstand much more than some of Ida's peak storm surge predictions.

In addition, this will all be happening while New Orleans' hospitals are filled to the brim with unvaxxed covid patients.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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Roger Wilco said:
Models are starting to warm up to cat 4.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1431333044619726853

New Orleans is now issuing mandatory evacuations for anyone outside of the levee protection system built after Katrina, which is not designed to withstand much more than some of Ida's peak storm surge predictions.

In addition, this will all be happening while New Orleans' hospitals are filled to the brim with unvaxxed covid patients.
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Be easier if they just listened to me, wouldn't have to do all that work.
 
MrSquished

MrSquished

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And I'm sure whoever gets hit will have their hands held out for the federal coffers. Which I don't mind, or didn't used to mind, because this was how we made America better. We helped each other out.

But now the majority of the voters down there think they are self-sufficient and don't need no gubm't and they vote in fascists like Trump and like him to prove their point, so they can go fuck themselves now. Self-sustain yourselves now you GQP trash.
 
hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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MrSquished said:
And I'm sure whoever gets hit will have their hands held out for the federal coffers. Which I don't mind, or didn't used to mind, because this was how we made America better. We helped each other out.

But now the majority of the voters down there think they are self-sufficient and don't need no gubm't and they vote in fascists like Trump and like him to prove their point, so they can go fuck themselves now. Self-sustain yourselves now you GQP trash.
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A lot of those people wouldn't live where they live, if the flood insurance wasn't federally subsidized. I blame developers first, then the feds.
 
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imported_tajmahal

imported_tajmahal

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For more info I bought a duel fuel generator which runs on both propane and gasoline and has adapters that can tie into the natural gas meter. While not as large as Paratus, it will still run a window air conditioner, a refrigerator and some peripherals.
 
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Well shit...buckle down and stay safe down there. Fucking yikes.
 
MrSquished

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imported_tajmahal said:
Isn't this what most you fascists do? Label their opponents as subhuman? Nice to see you living down to your standards.
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When you post you sound exactly like this guy:

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An evil piece of soul-less shit just like his father. Welcome to reality - the world is filled with soul-less pieces of shit that think and do evil stuff. You are one of them. Don't be so hippy dippy to assume filth humans don't exist. That's so naive and you sound stupid protesting that we can't call out evil. Evil exists. Deal with it. You are evil.
 
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Roger Wilco

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hal2kilo said:
You practically have to watch the useless (most of the time anymore) weather channel to get any decent coverage as far as TV. War gets way more eyeballs.
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It’s remarkable how little coverage there is. This is going to kill far more Americans than the Afghanistan withdrawal. And then of course covid is killing 1,000 a day, but that’s old news too I guess.
 
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hal2kilo

hal2kilo

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Roger Wilco said:
It’s remarkable how little coverage there is. This is going to kill far more Americans than the Afghanistan withdrawal. And then of course covid is killing 1,000 a day, but that’s old news too I guess.
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I just switched over to the WC and holy crap, CAT1, 80 mph There's literally nothing else but Afghanistan crap on regular media. Cat 4 on early Monday landfall. The big dirty is going be a lot dirtier.
 
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imported_tajmahal said:
For more info I bought a duel fuel generator which runs on both propane and gasoline and has adapters that can tie into the natural gas meter. While not as large as Paratus, it will still run a window air conditioner, a refrigerator and some peripherals.
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If it has a 220/240V out you can look into getting an external RV hookup to your breaker box. Then you can back feed portions of your house from your portable generator. The benefit there is if you have natural gas you can power your furnace and you don’t have to run extension cords everywhere.

Professional installation is recommended because they’ll install an interlock to prevent your portable generator from powering upstream of your house. Folks who jury rig it themselves run the risk of frying some poor lineman who’s trying to repair the system if they forget to open their main breaker.

Other than that besides fuel I recommend having at least enough oil on hand to do 1-2 oil changes since portables normally require them after ~24hours of continuous operations.

It also doesn’t hurt to have a spare carburetor air filter and spark plug. I ended up using all of those after the carburetor gummed and flooded the cylinder of my portable during the winter storm this year.

Also get some beefy extension cables. Guess which one of these was the lower gauge cord:
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Jaskalas

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Roger Wilco said:
NHC is saying cat 4. Katrina was cat 3.
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Katrina was far beyond a Cat 3 one to two days before landfall. It weakened significantly, but most the damage was from the storm surge. Those waters largely maintained the energy of a 175 MPH beast. Ida would need to reach that scale to have a similar impact. A typical Cat4 will be scary, but still do less damage than Katrina.
 
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Roger Wilco

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Jaskalas said:
Katrina was far beyond a Cat 3 one to two days before landfall. It weakened significantly, but most the damage was from the storm surge. Those waters largely maintained the energy of a 175 MPH beast. Ida would need to reach that scale to have a similar impact. A typical Cat4 will be scary, but still do less damage than Katrina.
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That's true. Katrina was also a much larger storm.
 
IronWing

IronWing

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I have some hope for rain from Nora reaching southern Arizona. We could use it.
 
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