Sandra, yeah that makes sense. At least here there's very little chance of
the weather being so cold or so hot that an electrical outage will cause
serious harm. It can be too cold for people sleeping on the streets but
then electricity doesn't matter anyway.
My ideal would be on the grid (assuming the grid is already hooked up to
the house) with a backup non-grid system. A backup for a few hours isn't
too expensive ($700US for a house I think) but a full backup would amount
to a paraelle system, no? I really don't know too much about this stuff
but I'm learning!
Winter of 97, same as your ice storm I think, we had some bad storms and
parts of Calif lost power for several days. I had to sleep at a friend's
house for a night because I have medical problems without winter heat and
where I was living it was electric. But I would have just been
uncomfortable and asthmatic and could have survived if neccessary.
Aside from a major earthquake (knock on wood), I'd guess the grid is
reasonably safe here. But who would have thought Canada's would have gone
down so badly?
Cyndi
who is itching to get out of hte city but that will be a couple years, if
ever
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