Baton Rouge is more than 50 miles inland. Betsy was a big storm, the first billion dollar damage hurricane.
Now I live in earthquake country. Our power outage after the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989) was pretty short, not even a day. Interestingly, the Hurricane Watch Net was started by amateur radio volunteers during Hurricane Betsy. http://www.hwn.org/ wunder K6WRU CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ On Jul 27, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > Well after hurricane Sandy I was out for well over a week. And I'm 50 miles > inland in the NW corner of NJ. A big issue was gas. Even gas stations that > had gas had no power to pump it. > > I had an old Dayton with a Briggs & Stratton engine.rated at 2.5kw. Ran fine > for duration but killer was 25 hour oil change interval and pull starting. > It like many small engines had a "splash" oiling system. Generac has > generators at many price points. I settled on an 8KW unit with electric > start but the more important feature was a full pressure oiling system with > filter and 100 hour change intervals. Just another consideration if looking > at generators especially smaller ones. > > Since purchase it has more testing than generating hours. I hope it stays > that way. > > 73, > Bob > K2TK ex KN2TKR & K2TKR > > > On 7/27/2014 1:04 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: >> One side topic was “how long could power be out?” >> >> At the Carleton Complex fire in Washington, power is being restored after >> seven days. >> >> I grew up in Baton Rouge. After Hurricane Betsy in 1965, our phones were out >> for seven days and power for ten days. We lived in a suburban area in the >> middle of town. >> >> wunder >> K6WRU >> CM87wj >> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
