White Death 2026 is coming!
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There are still a bunch of trees on my property that I can point to as damaged from the ‘94 storm. Never want to go through that again.
We are right on the freeze line. Right now, they're calling for freezing rain to start here on Friday night.
Me either. I was young and worked for a power company.
Weather Channel RIGHT NOW shows Starkville being above freezing every day in the 14 day forecast, Saturday says rain and 33' but......
94 was awful. Clarksdale looked like a nuclear bomb went off.
In Desoto Co. we'll gladly take the snow, but everyone else can have the ice. Last ice storm in 1994 made me leave my house for about 4 weeks since there was no power for weeks due to the massive damage and subzero temps that ensued. Ice storms make me real nervous. Parts of the Delta were without power for months.....all the way into the beginning of summer because of the horrific damage. Power companies felt what the definition of "overwhelmed" was during that time. It literally haunts me.
Friday's high is negative 5 degrees in Madison.
Well the one I reside in...
Well the one I reside in...
I have a class get together (this weekend in Eunice, LA. Been looking forward to it for months, now I’m wondering if I’m going to need to cancel.
when you mentioned sausages it reminded me to refill my viagra thanks
He actually said Vienna sausages
I keep telling my wife we are about one more power loss away from a whole house generator. Over the 20+ years I've been in the same location in Madison County, my power has gone from nearly never out to routinely losing minutes/hours of power at least monthly. Probably still a pretty crappy ROI on a whole house generator but it would be nice.
'94 in Starkville we had a blast with a ski rope, a Toyota 4WD the large field across from Spruill townhomes and a knee board, innertube, random piece of plywood tied to the tow hitch...
You going to spend $12,000 on something you might need 2 or 3 times before having to replace it in 20 years (or sooner)? I'll bundle up & suffer.
I was in Greenville during the 94 ice storm. We were without power for 3 weeks, had the national guard water buffalo stop by the house to fill every pot and pan with water we had, used melted ice to flush toilets. I’ll never forget it.
I'm getting soft in my old age and I admitted that there really isn't an ROI. I think I can do it for $9k, assuming I leave the upstairs to fend for itself. The real issue is that it might cause a divorce if it cuts into the wife's shoe budget and attorneys are expensive. Honestly, I have gas everything, and one part of my house is still served by an old school water heater so It's not terrible, just frustrating, particularly because I work from my home office, so I get pissed if I have to leave home in crappy weather just to find power and internet. Maybe I can write it off as a business expense...
I lived in Hollandale. We were on southern end of it. I lived between grocery stores on the south end and convince stores on north end. Since they were only stores that could be open in Washington county the first couple of days, they kept them in power for most part.
Fortunately, the limbs had been trimmed over powerlines on that street just a couple of weeks before.
Hearing transformers blow at about daylight the morning after it started, will always be remembered.
Power was out that first night, but wasn't too bad. We were getting a lot of it back on. Then the temp dropped, and I'll never forget the sounds of tree limbs snapping everywhere. Sounded like a war zone. We would pull one wire back up and then three more would go down. Pull those three, then six more. It was pissing in the wind for a good 24 to 48 hours. After that, at least for us and the out of state crews who helped, when the temp went up a bit it was just a matter of pretty much rebuilding everything. It just took a while. Someone fed us three meals a day for the next good while. I did make the most overtime I have ever made in my life.
your car
your hat
your school
you're an idiot
you're going to the store
you're wrong
How is that so hard for college graduates?
The latest Canadian is winter Armageddon for the 82 corridor. GFS is a significant winter storm north of I-20.
I have a Honda 2000 that I bought used years ago. I added an external 5 gallon fuel tank that will run it 2-3 days. I run two cords through a window and I can run any combination of two of the Refrigerator, fans, lamps, coffee makers, hair dryers, or whatever. Just as long as you have an alternative heat source. You can also link two Hondas together the produce 4000 watts and that will run pretty much every thing except an electric hot water heater and the central HVAC unit.
This is going to be one to remember. I had a blast in '94, but I was a young teenager. We were without power for 2 weeks out in the country. I don't want to deal with that as an adult though!
That would suck. You can certainly capitalize it and deduct the percentage of the depreciation your home office is to your whole house. Pretty sure the IRS wouldn't buy that it's strictly a business asset though.
I lived in Lincoln County during the 94 storm. We had some snow, sleet, ice for a day, day and a half, nothing major. How does the 94 storm for north Mississippi compare to Katrina for South Mississippi? It seems like similar circumstances, as the resulting infrastructure damage to utilities, widespread power outages, lack of potable water and lgeneral dread/foreboding and so forth. At the time of both events, I told someone that Mother Nature had done more to disable the southern U. S. than any terror attack ever could.
We were without power for 11 days. Our house was all electric with the exception of a gas fireplace in the den. We put our mattress in the den floor and hung a blanket over the hall entrance to keep the heat in the den and kitchen and one bathroom. Cooked outside on the grill. Warmed water on the grill for a ***** bath. My brother got power restored around day 5-6, best hot shower I’ve ever had.
You forgot "Your and dubmass q u e e r."
We were out about 6 or 7 that I remember. We were at the end of a line and another ended at a nearby home down the road. The power was restored to the line that fed the power line that came to our house. But they didn't turn ours on.
We all figured that they thought the lines were connected all the way down the road and there was still damage on the other one. One group of guys up the road went up and down the line we were on that ended near our house and they didn't see any further damage.
So they rigged up a wooden and fiberglass pole, went out to the other line, and shoved the Fused Cutout back into place. Bam. Power restored.
My in-laws have one of these. They first got one when they were living in Tampa for hurricane power outages. They recently moved to Graniteville, SC and had a new one installed there not too long ago. It wasn't in time for Hurricane Helene, but their adult son with autism still lives with them. So, I understand their need for one is greater than many of the rest of us.
Now, the reason their other grown son still lives at home is horse of a different color, and a topic for another day.
Beer, whisky and wine.
My house has gas heaters and water heaters so when we bought it I had a plumber put a gas wall outlets at each end and I have a couple of large unvented space heaters i can hook up for winter problems........in the summer I'm just 17ed. The problem this weekend is if it ices up enough to loose power it is suppose to be around 15 Sunday night and that takes some serious "bundling" if you have no heat at all.
Good practice, if you live long enough there’ll come a time when power and fuel are rationed. Hopefully it won’t be in the next 20 years.
I used to work storm restoration as a Logistics Manager for 22 plus years (traveled all over the country setting staging sites for utility companies such as Entergy, Ms Power, Georgia Power and many more). I have had a whole house generator since Katrina. I was gone for 67 days, and my wife was home for almost two weeks without power. When I got back home, we bought a 17 Kw generator ( 225 gallon propane tank) , it lasted about 17 years and now we have a 20 kw Kohler that is awesome. Best investment I made for my home.
The things I saw from ice storms, hurricanes and tornados would make many folks head spin, Saw way too much destruction! Always be prepared my friend.
So basically what you are saying is for those of us that live on that Hwy 82 corridor.... Is get 17'd?
For the record, I don't think the Canadian will verify to what it is showing now. That said, I do most certainly think that anyone in the red shaded area and north needs to be prepared for likely power outages and an extended period of very difficult to impossible driving conditions. Temps are expected to remain at, or below, freezing well into next week so there will not be a lot of melting and what does melt will refreeze at night. Personally, I can see this rivalling the 2021 winter storm. Expect winter conditions to enter the western part of the state mid-afternoon Friday and possibly last into Sunday morning.
Mine is a Honda EB5000i also 2nd hand. I did something similar, I have a male plug receptacle on the outside of the house that I plug a 10ga 30 amp short cord into that's running from the generator. On the inside in my laundry room I have a 2x 4 gang receptacles (see pics below)
This is outside the house where I plug in a cord from the generator:
On the inside I have these wired in the laundry room from that 30 amp outside box.
I run whatever cords I need to those outlets.
As for heat I have gas furnace and replaced the single light switch on the side of it with a combination light switch and male cord. If the power goes out I can run the male cord from that switch/receptacle all the way to the generator OR I also have a 750 watt Bluetti power station that I can sit right beside the furnace and plug that cord into it, that will run the thermostat and fan for the heater. I don't have a ton of money in it but it works good
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The neatest system I’ve seen was in an Alabama Power magazine and was offered by several power companies in Alabama. It was basically a transfer switch that fit between your electric meter and the base. It had a plug to attach to an external generator allowing it to power your entire house depending on the size of the generator. For smaller generators all you had to do was flip breakers off to isolate stuff you couldn’t or didn’t want to power.
I looked into "the switch" so the generator could run the whole house w/out backfeeding but this was much simpler and took an electrician friend maybe 90 minutes to do, drilling through the brick wall and through the sheetrock taking up a good bit of that. I was more concerned about not wanting to have to leave a window up, that's why I did it this way. I have also seen someone just cut a slit or two in a pool noodle to run the cords through and then close the window down on the noodle to keep the cold/hot air from moving in and out.
This is a simpler photo of what I did: Here's the pool noodles:
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Book a hotel room that has generators, that what we do during hurricanes. A lot cheaper.