smokeball is the power in your area not very reliable?
In the last few years the power has become pretty reliable. The sub-division in which I reside has underground cables but the cables that feed my sub-division are strung on poles. This is not really a problem until we get hit by a hurricane. Then we can lose electricity for a couple of weeks. This is usually in the hottest part of the summer. Food spoils quickly, the bugs are awful, and life is pretty miserable.
I have seen many hurricanes during my life, the first one was called locally ?The 1947 Hurricane?, this was before they started giving them names. Approximately every 10 years we tend to get hit with a hard one. The worst was
Hurricane Camille.
In 1969, Hurricane Camille, a Saffir/Simpson Category 5 hurricane, made landfall as the most powerful tropical cyclone to directly strike the United States in the 20th Century. Since Camille, no other Category 5 storm has hit the U.S., and only two Category 4 storms have made landfall since Camille: Hugo in 1989 and Andrew in 1992. (This was written in 1999.)
If you visit the linked site above and go to the
Image Gallery you will see some of the devastation we endured. In that gallery there is a picture of
Downtown Biloxi. That is U. S. Highway 90 in the lower part of the picture which runs along the beachfront and in the top left corner of that picture (just out of the photo) is where I survived the night in a clapboard, metal tin-roofed, shotgun styled house. How the roof didn?t come off during the height of the storm (200+ mph winds) I?ll never know. The following morning I climbed onto that roof and hammered down every nail which had pulled almost completely free.
So I guess the old saying, ?Burned once, twice shy!?, is my primary motivation for taking such extreme precautions. BTW, I mentioned that the generator is run on natural gas. You see, all of the gas lines ?are? underground and have never failed. So I have a very reliable source of energy always at the ready.
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