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[kinzel]

Well, not quite yet --

We've had about 5 short term power loss episodes so far; those of you in the Northeast may understand when I say... we're on the verge of an ice storm. Temps in the low 30a, rain/sleet/snow ... and the birch and pine trees trees are drooping and bending under the weight of the ice. That means we've got a real good shot of losing power for real when one of the birch trees breaks onto a powerline. We *do* have about 5 UPS around here, mostly charged, so we could carry on computer wise with laptops if need be...

But, I'm ought here for the moment.

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The fellow across the street saved our basement from flooding by hooking up our pump to his RV generator, one year. Our priorities for the generator are pump, furnace, 2-meter radio, and then refrigerator. Don't know why it is that when we lose power for a couple days, it's when we have a just-filled refrigerator.

We've got lots of batteries we haven't done anything with, yet.