it depends where, as you say… Here in South Florida, all gas stations are required to have backup power. Lessons have been learned from our previous encounters with hurricanes and himacanes.
73 Gil, W1RG From: Chuck Smallhouse Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:34 PM To: [email protected] FWIW. Replenishing gasoline that's been depleted by emergency motor generators may not be as easy as going down to the local Service Station. Most often if you have lost power, so have they, and not only will their pumps not work but neither will their cash registers or credit card charging systems. The same may be true at the local markets and hardware stores ! I spent a day waiting for a Baja Mexico gas station to be able to pump, when they'd lost power. I had to spend the night, in their parking lot, beside my off road motorcycle, that I was touring on . In the N. CA earthquake of, I believe '85, we were without power at home for 10 days. Fortunately the power company prioritized getting power again first to the hospitals and their other commercial customers, W7CS ex WA6MGZ ______________________________________________________________ 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]
