Fantasticly beautiful ice storm in Springfield, MO. took out my power 2 weeks ago and I am still not hooked up yet.
No generator; but we have natural gas stove and hot water. Turn the burners on so the pipes and my family don't freeze.
City has no idea when we'll be hooked up; they are kinda overwhelmed.

Some people in out in the country have nothing; no heat, no water...Man I really feel for them.
Anyone else been in this prediciment? And what did you do?

(I have internet at the Library.)

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Yes something like it.......only in the Summer
We had water, electric was out for almost 3 weeks. Ran small inverter and generators for essentials. At least the house didn't blow down

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Never without power or water for more than 24 hours; I can't imagine for 2 weeks without an end in sight.
Good luck
Mark

What's FEMA doing?

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Dear Mr. Kenny: I have a friend who works for FEMA and I just e-mailed about your situation, I will pm you when he gets back to me o.k.? We used to be without power for two weeks in FLA. when the hurricanes hit we did have water but had electric stoves so we had to use sterno....ughhh.

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The rain here's over for now; I have a tarp I can loan ya.

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By the time you could hook up one of those Briggs & Straton $1,000.00 natural gas electric back up power units they would probably have you back on the grid... Sorry to hear about your mess down there.

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Reading your M103 duty cycle:
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http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

Cheap Mercedes.

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Buy a generator. I good investment for now and in the future.

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Yeah, get a generator for "next" time. I finally did after the big storm here. I found there was a wide range of generator options. I decided to get the most efficient and quietest one, the Yamaha EF1000IS. Very similar to the Honda EU1000I. (they also both have 2000 watt versions). Mine will run quietly (relatively) at 250W for 16 hours on 1 gallon which is pretty good. The main thing is to figure out what you really want to power and what the load is for each thing. And you also need to consider startup surge current for things like the refrigerator. My refrigerator runs at about 250W but the surge at startup is about 2000W. My 1000W generator BARELY handles this. A lot of people go for bigger and louder ones but I like this one. I have a gas fireplace insert and the fan uses about 85W. That heats my house enough to survive. I use compact flourescent bulbs that are 11 watts and the TV is 65W so I don't need much juice to get by!

Mike

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If you can find it, see the thread I started when our power was out for a week. Don't assume that you can compact florescent lamps based on the wattage, as they run at an extremely low power factor. With a 1KW generator, you're probably fine though. Note that the current requirements for a 11W compact florescent bulb is about the same as for a 100W incandescent bulb, but the power requirements (and thus gasoline requirements) are much lower.

We got a 5.6K unit from Sears, which runs all night on a few gallons of fuel, running the refrigerator, computers and furnace fan. It had enough power that we did have to ration by not running the electric resistance room heaters, but we had enough to use the television sets and whatever lamps we wanted.

There is no such thing as a cheap Mercedes...

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Mr. Kenny: My friend who works for FEMA e-mailed me back and said that the state has not been declared eligible for individual reimbursement as of yet. However, they will reimburse you for the cost of a generator if it is needed to care for an elderly person or children (keeping meds cold etc.) He will keep me posted if something changes. I know its not much but at least someone is aware....

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My point exactly.

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I guess if you are still posting, you aren't dead, but i don't think heating the house with the stove is a good idea as there is a lot of CO put out as it isn't meant to run continuously as a heater. Just a thought especially if you have kids. I feel for you btw: 10 days w/o for me during Katrina. It was in the summer though. Generator, yeah, but where you live, I would focus on heat and get some non-vented gas logs or some other gas-heater.