On 1/18/07, pippa258 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you do if you're out for several days? Our neighbors said the > ice storm here last year caused an outage for 6 days. Our well is > electric too so we're thinking of a generator.
At our house we're on city water and all gas, so we survived well in the last ice storm. We do have 2 generators, though. One is a small, I think 1000Watt we got for me to camp with (it's enough to blow up the air matress and make coffee, I'm pretty low maintenance with everying else!) the other is large enough to run even the AC unit, the power saws, and other power equipment. Thankfully, it sits in storage and we've never used it. My trainers 2 years ago had a complete solar backup with generator and battery bank. After the ice storm several years ago that hit the area so hard (was it 2 or 3 years ago Karen?) he decided that he'd never go through something like that without power. At the time he was boarding 12 horses and had to take muck tubs to the fire department in town and fill them up to water the horses. He said his system cost about $12,000, but it ran the entire house, barn, arena lights, etc.. Steph -- "Brutality begins where skill ends." "Correctly understood, work at the lunge line is indispensable for rider and horse from the very beginning through the highest levels." Von Niendorff
