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What kind of generator? I'm sure we've gone over this before but I forget.
Hahahahahaha!!!!
I knew I probably did all this before cause my Aunt and Uncle have never been in a situation to test it yet......But I was about to ask you this exact same question:
Also I didn't mention it at the time and you know we all dig your place, but after seeing that wide shot it reminded me that I should say this more often.....Dude, all your hard work your whole life (and still now) paid off. You made it man, you got to the goal.
I strive to have a sexy pantry window like you some day. You deserve to be proud of it.
I knew I probably did all this before cause my Aunt and Uncle have never been in a situation to test it yet......But I was about to ask you this exact same question:
Also I didn't mention it at the time and you know we all dig your place, but after seeing that wide shot it reminded me that I should say this more often.....Dude, all your hard work your whole life (and still now) paid off. You made it man, you got to the goal.
I strive to have a sexy pantry window like you some day. You deserve to be proud of it.
Here is a heartwarming story for all you generator fans. The tiny California Hamlet of Gorda – yes, it means "fat" in Spanish – has no electricity. All the homes and businesses use diesel- or gasoline-powered generators. At the hamlet's only gas station, gas is now $9.99 a gallon.
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Gas hits almost $10 a gallon in this coastal California community
Gas prices have been soaring, leading to a lot of pain at the pump, but a station in a scenic community along California’s coast just might take the cake, with premium gas going for $9.99 a gallon.
Just to add to the wifi discussion, there are other factors. If you have the older coax cable, it requires repeaters on the poles. So with a widespread power outage, the repeaters are dead. Therefore, no cable internet.
But with fiber optic cable, there are no repeaters. So even without power, it works as long as the internet provider is up and running. That's what we have now.
But with fiber optic cable, there are no repeaters. So even without power, it works as long as the internet provider is up and running. That's what we have now.
And in just 20 short years, we'll have the mortgage paid off.
My mortgage was originally gonna be paid off last year, but we re-financed a while ago to an even better rate and took out some of the money we saved to fix up the house.
Ok so without looking any of this stuff up if I start talking about it I will get myself into another situation where I am arguing that a HARD drive has a floppy disk inside.
All I really want to know is, in you're experience, if you get a blizzard and most of the town has lost power.....but you have all your internet shit connected to your generator so there is no interruption to its power in your home.....does it still work like normal?
Cause that would be really cool.
Before I answer, I just have to express a little sadness that Jon isn't posting here anymore. Because he'd ride us hard for being off-topic.
But anyway, we got the generator in 2023. Prior to that, when we lost power, everything was dead - including the modem and router. So even with a charged phone and laptop, it was a no-go.
Once we got the generator, we had a lot of outages. On a couple of occasions, we lost power for as much as 3 days. But the cable internet was out for over 2 days. I had to go to the Starbucks to be able to do my timecard for work. But I was actually still able to WFH, because I had stuff on my local computer. But we had no TV or internet.
But a couple of years ago, we got Fidium fiber-optic internet. And that doesn't need any repeaters to transmit, because it's light beaming through a fiber-optic cable. The generator is connected to the house through a secondary electric panel in the basement, right next to the main one. When we lose power, and the main panel goes down, the generator kicks-in, and powers the secondary panel.
Most of the circuits in the house are included in there, but not all. Obviously, things like the circuits powering the TV, computer, modem and router are no-brainers to include, as they hardly use any power. Same with the lights, fireplace igniter, and ceiling fan. The refrigerator, microwave, furnace, water heater, well pump, and garage door openers use more power, but they're included too. Things that are not included mostly need ganged (multiple) breakers, and/or 220 volts. So the double oven, clothes dryer, and mini-split AC heads are not available. Also, because of the limit on the number of breakers, a few other minor things, like the foyer and kitchen island wall outlets, are not backed-up.
So the fiber optic internet really improves life at home during an outage.
I should also mention that when we got the fiber internet, I got smart and put the modem on a UPS (uninterruptable power supply). Between the brown-outs - where the power would go off and on - and the actual outages - where there'd be like a 10 second gap of no power - the modem kept restarting. And that farking thing takes a good 3 minutes to boot-up and connect.
The Songkran festival is a celebration of the Thai New Year. The Sanskrit word means "astrological passage" or "moving into," marking the sun's transition into Aries. One hundred ninety-one dum-dums will be moving into a cemetery.
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191 People Killed in World's Largest Water Fight
The festival of Songkran, a Thai holiday known for "the world's largest water fight," resulted in 191 deaths this year.
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a little context...
The leading causes of accidents were speeding and drunk driving. Motorcycles remained the vehicle most frequently involved in crashes.
The leading causes of accidents were speeding and drunk driving. Motorcycles remained the vehicle most frequently involved in crashes.