Originally Posted by Diseasel300

Black ice is the big issue we had here. We dipped below freezing on Wednesday. Started freezing rain on Thursday and lasted through Saturday. We got a solid 1/2" of ice on every surface, including roadways. Sunday night we got 5-6" of snow which of course stuck to everything. Having lived here for 25+ years, the roads have NEVER frozen over and collected snow like this. We've had ice, but it usually lasts less than 24 hours. The snow isn't the problem, it's the ice layer under it that's shut EVERYTHING down in our area.



A lot of folks don't realize that you need a preheater/vaporizer on LP-fed generator sets. In cold weather, the temperature of the tank will drop to the point that you're pulling gel instead of vapor from the tank. A LOT of people around here found that out when their generators started for 5 minutes or so then died due to the cold.