11-02-2012, 03:01 AM
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How I made out,I finally got power back yesterday at around noon, house didn't take any damage had no flooding the pond behind my house filled more with previous storms. Just had power outage and I think it was a preventative thing, I think they didn't want the sub station energized when the flood waters would come in and destroy the equipment so it all got shut down early in the storm. My business didn't have any physical damage to the outside just alot of food waste I am calculating about 9k in food spoilage, then there is potential revenue loses which I haven't even begun to calculate but usually that never gets recouped by insurance.
For looting, I know some people were looting houses by the shore, only makes sense though in the eyes of a thief, if people are worth millions and own a beach house their has to be good undamaged stuff on the second and sometimes third floor of some of these beach houses.
As far as generators, I used mine sparingly for the most part, except from late last night into the morning.I had to use it all day today before power came back because of how cold it was, my fish in my fish tank were beginning to die because their water got too cold and not enough oxygen in water. I mainly cared about them living because I spent tons of money to get them to where they are and was not going to let cold water kill 5 years of raising them.
My neighbor next door about 80 feet away ran their generator for two days straight till they had to start rationing their fuel, two houses down on the other side that guy had his generator going 24/7 since the power outage. He only turned his off once the real power came back, didnt really bother me since I know some of these people are older and really need it and I would want the same consideration if I needed to run mine all the time. The generators actually helped me sleep because I hate total silence, I didnt run mine at night just because I didnt need it.
As far as gas I found a little gem of a shell station in allen town that only had a 6 car wait it was amazing and worth the drive.All the gas here is rationed in the sense you cant get your tank filled they were doing gas cans only and the police monitored it kinda sad and crazy. I heard alot of stations aren't getting fuel shipments for a while after they run out. If that happens shits gonna get real, people will probably get shot over fuel, I saw a guy get jumped for cutting a line of people waiting for gas. After the people beat the guy up for cutting the line cops took him away it was kinda awesome the level of justice delivered but sucked how stupid people have to get over fuel.
For looting, I know some people were looting houses by the shore, only makes sense though in the eyes of a thief, if people are worth millions and own a beach house their has to be good undamaged stuff on the second and sometimes third floor of some of these beach houses.
As far as generators, I used mine sparingly for the most part, except from late last night into the morning.I had to use it all day today before power came back because of how cold it was, my fish in my fish tank were beginning to die because their water got too cold and not enough oxygen in water. I mainly cared about them living because I spent tons of money to get them to where they are and was not going to let cold water kill 5 years of raising them.
My neighbor next door about 80 feet away ran their generator for two days straight till they had to start rationing their fuel, two houses down on the other side that guy had his generator going 24/7 since the power outage. He only turned his off once the real power came back, didnt really bother me since I know some of these people are older and really need it and I would want the same consideration if I needed to run mine all the time. The generators actually helped me sleep because I hate total silence, I didnt run mine at night just because I didnt need it.
As far as gas I found a little gem of a shell station in allen town that only had a 6 car wait it was amazing and worth the drive.All the gas here is rationed in the sense you cant get your tank filled they were doing gas cans only and the police monitored it kinda sad and crazy. I heard alot of stations aren't getting fuel shipments for a while after they run out. If that happens shits gonna get real, people will probably get shot over fuel, I saw a guy get jumped for cutting a line of people waiting for gas. After the people beat the guy up for cutting the line cops took him away it was kinda awesome the level of justice delivered but sucked how stupid people have to get over fuel.