Shot of the ice encrusted tree in front of my house after a earlier ice storm. They're calling for more overnight. You can also see one of the 100w HPS OV-15s across.
This pic was taken a few minutes before the power went out O_o.
wow! Stay warm! here it's supposed to rain tomorrow into monday but it's gonna be in the 60s here tomorrow so it won't freeze. on christmas its only supposed to be like 30 degrees though
The ice could get pretty bad in some places and cause lots of damage to trees and powerlines,hope your power is restored fairly quickly Joe, stay safe.
We are lucky to still have power right now. Theres a R37 nearby me on the ground that a tree branch took out in a path. The trees here are falling and breaking like crazy! I thought I saw lightning earlier but its transformers exploding. Its going to be extremely icy outside for a while. our power keeps flickering. Heres what its like around here
Yeah the trees here are all flattened except for any tree with needles. Our power is on, nobody around us has power. All the streetlights are out and traffic lights. but our line is flickering a lot, and 2 OVX's just dont come on anymore. About half our city or more is without power. All day I have been hearing crashing tree limbs and branches.
Good that your power is back on . This storm has left a scar on the trees around here they all look cut from the middle of them and up. Yeah saw someones car get hit with ice that fell off a power line earlier YIKES
Im pretty sure the tree on the left of my user pic is down too.
Do you have to have power to have heat, Joseph? Or do you also have a woodburning stove or a furnace that has a manual operation mode that doesn't require electricity?
Feel free to fix that...
But yeah it might not hurt to fix that fireplace...it could come in handy in situations like this! I guess for short-term just put on another layer indoors but if it gets REALLY cold...
ahh here i have forced hot air. no heat when the power goes out. we have an electric stove too so no cooking. i was born for the cold though so it doesn't bother me. we typically loose power in the summer though and then i'm not happy since i hate the heat lol.
Yeah, my main heat source is gas forced air so power is needed to run the fan. Fireplace should work but I need to install a safety door for it (previous owner took it off for some reason and I can't find it) and get the chimney cleaned before using it. I guess a retrofit to a gas fireplace would also work.
My stove is electric but I guess I could always use the propane grill in the back. Still had hot water during the power out though as my hot water heater is gas.
yeah my hot water heater is connected to the gas lines but for some reason my parents think we need electricity for it. It's not visibly hooked up to any electrical... The forced hot air has a gas furnace but like you, it won't run without electricity.i think the igniter inside is electrical so it can run and the fan is electrical too. we could use the grill to cook but in the winter we barricade it with the deck furniture (table and chairs) so the tarp grill cover doesn't blow off.
I luckily didn't lose power once, it flickered quite a few times and just a few minutes away nine poles fell down. My Grandmother meanwhile lost power for more than 24 hours. I've got some pictures I'm going to post.
Lucky, I lost power from around 22 hours. The tree in the pic lost a few branches on top but it was nothing compared to how badly damaged the other trees on my street were. There's some with only the trunk left standing.
In my current house I have a woodstove as my main heat source so if my power goes out if my batteries die I still have heat, maybe a little less since I have an electric fan to circulate the air around though. My water heater is a regular 50 gallon electric one but instead of being hooked up to electricity I have a small diesel stove that heats the water (It has coils in it) that also contributes to heating the house and in the summer just that is enough but in the winter I have to run the wood stove. My range is propane although the ignition is electric. Without power I could light the burners manually with a match or lighter though. I'm not sure about the oven, though. It has electric ignition (I can hear "Tick Tick Tick" when I turn it on) but I think after that it has a little pilot light so as long as that was lit it would maintain temperature since the big burner would fire back up. The thermostat could be electric but I don't think so since my stove is an older one we got secondhand from a friend. It doesn't even have a clock or an oven light.
The previous house I lived in didn't have constant power. We just ran a generator and didn't have power the rest of the time (At night after going to bed, during midday, etc.) (Well we had a 12 volt car battery powering a few 12v items and a 400w inverter for an answering machine on the phone and other small things). We had a propane/LP on-demand (tankless) water heater that didn't require electricity but had a pilot light going all the time. That was a double-edged sword; it helped keep that room (Which was originally intended to be a darkroom for photo developing so it had no windows and had the plumbing for a sink in there, etc.) warm (Again, lots of plumbing in there) but if we were running low on propane (Switched over to the last tank, etc.) we would shut it off. Newer ones have a hydrostat thing run by the water flow to ignite or an electric thingy but the latter requires electricity to work at all, though. Heat came from a woodstove and the range was propane and didn't have electric ignition; you had to manually light the burners with a match and the oven always had a pilot light going; if you ran out of propane and switched tanks you had to stick your head in the broiler and relight it.
Another house was on the grid and was all-electric: electric range, water heater, electric baseboard heat, etc. We only really ever used a wood-burning stove and/or a Toyotomi oil-fired heater (#1 diesel) but the latter required electricity. I remember the electric meter on that house was a Westinghouse that displayed kilowatt-hours with the flip numbers like in those 70s clock-radios and I remember it's disc spinning quite fast with all that going on.
And my mother's house in CA is on the grid, but has a gas range, furnace, and water heater. She does have a woodburning fireplace though. I believe the water heater works without electricity and the stove has a clock, oven light, electric ignition, etc. but you can light the burners with a match.
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And yeah, the ice can get pretty bad it was so slippery outside too. One of the trees on my street had a branch fall down too.
Stay safe Joe!
You guys are lucky to still have power.
Im pretty sure the tree on the left of my user pic is down too.
BTW, I fixed my name's spelling on your post.
But yeah it might not hurt to fix that fireplace...it could come in handy in situations like this! I guess for short-term just put on another layer indoors but if it gets REALLY cold...
My stove is electric but I guess I could always use the propane grill in the back. Still had hot water during the power out though as my hot water heater is gas.
The previous house I lived in didn't have constant power. We just ran a generator and didn't have power the rest of the time (At night after going to bed, during midday, etc.) (Well we had a 12 volt car battery powering a few 12v items and a 400w inverter for an answering machine on the phone and other small things). We had a propane/LP on-demand (tankless) water heater that didn't require electricity but had a pilot light going all the time. That was a double-edged sword; it helped keep that room (Which was originally intended to be a darkroom for photo developing so it had no windows and had the plumbing for a sink in there, etc.) warm (Again, lots of plumbing in there) but if we were running low on propane (Switched over to the last tank, etc.) we would shut it off. Newer ones have a hydrostat thing run by the water flow to ignite or an electric thingy but the latter requires electricity to work at all, though. Heat came from a woodstove and the range was propane and didn't have electric ignition; you had to manually light the burners with a match and the oven always had a pilot light going; if you ran out of propane and switched tanks you had to stick your head in the broiler and relight it.
Another house was on the grid and was all-electric: electric range, water heater, electric baseboard heat, etc. We only really ever used a wood-burning stove and/or a Toyotomi oil-fired heater (#1 diesel) but the latter required electricity. I remember the electric meter on that house was a Westinghouse that displayed kilowatt-hours with the flip numbers like in those 70s clock-radios and I remember it's disc spinning quite fast with all that going on.
And my mother's house in CA is on the grid, but has a gas range, furnace, and water heater. She does have a woodburning fireplace though. I believe the water heater works without electricity and the stove has a clock, oven light, electric ignition, etc. but you can light the burners with a match.