The cars going north, the slow ones in the video, are traveling at a normal speed for that area and that time of day. I don't know where they are going because downtown is behind them, to the south.

But I was in D/FW a while back and, being a super smart guy, thought I would leave early to beat the traffic. Then I ran into this slow moving traffic at about 6 am. I just didn't know 'rush hour' started there so early. It took me about 2.5 hours to go from Arlington to Denton. This is normally a one hour drive.

The cars going south, the ones in the accident, are going south in the express lane. This is a toll lane built into the existing interstate where speeds usually are around 75 mph night or day.

Yes, back feed the panel, break main breaker and all others but the furnace. That is if it is a natural gas furnace, if electric heat, forget about a 1600 watt generator doing the job, that won't do for most hair driers.. Or if your furnace draws more than 15 amps forget that also.

Someone I know was talking at work and mentioned that the freeway is state/federal owned and was treated with sand/salt so conditions were better. The express lane is privately owned and the owners did not seen the need to treat the roads. If that is true I see several law suits in their future and I hope they get sued out of existence. I hate the idea of private ownership of public roads. The roads are for the public good and should be under public ownership. If the state wants to charge tolls and put the funds into new roads and upkeep, fine. To allow private businesses to make a profit off us and then pull crap like this. F'em.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article249184995.html

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You have a choice, stay off the express lane. Indiana toll road was know for a while as the Australian toll road.

The city of Chicago leased their parking meters to an outside source. Not a single republican alderman okayed the deal, all dems, (there are no R aldermen). They got five years or so of revenue for a seventy five year lease. They blew through that money faster than shoot goes through a goose buying votes. That is the Dem way to do things.

Unfortunately I have a lot of experience with outages. I have a 4400W gas/gen that has seen plenty of use. I made a hookup using 100 feet of romex and two extension cord repair ends (male). One end plugs into the gen, the other into the outlet nearest my furnace (same circuit). Presto! I have heat.

For summer outages I use the same home made cord to power the fridge...

As posted previously, the main breaker should be OFF to avoid back-feeding the line. Also, turn off every switch in the house that's not on the circuit you're powering. You'll end up back-feeding through the neutral and find other lights in the house dimly lit or flickering.....

Not sure if breakers work in the reverse direction from an outlet to the panel, feeding an outlet instead of the bottom of the house panel. They may!

If you have never experienced what I call black ice. Or total white outs.I think it is impossible to give them the respect they both should deserve.

There can be ice on the road and there can be black ice. A white out where you cannot see the front of your hood is also dangerous. Either one can kill you.

The problem is you can get into both before you are aware they are even there. .A definition of true black ice to me is you cannot stand up on it without support. Unless the surface is close to perfectly flat. Plus no breeze exists.

The pattern here is we lose power 6-7 times per year varying from hours to over a week.

We now worship at the holy temple of Saint Generac.

We included a 20 kw whole house propane generator with a 500 gal tank in our house plans. We moved in the second week of January. Huge relief hearing that sucker start itself and do a self-check and battery charge once per week.

If that's correct I agree.

- Peter.

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Just curious, did you purchase a Generac brand generator?

That or St Generac is a new saint.

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.

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I've been wondering about a diesel generator. I would think that anti-gel and algacide would need to be added to the diesel fuel. What is the shelf life of diesel fuel? Could it sit in a tank for five years awaiting use?

Diesel fuel does not go bad like RUG. Algaecide, if you never use it. Exercise the generator once a month will help.