No Power??!! Post Here for others
- Thread starter jhale
- Start date
- Location
- NY
Damn, I'm so far away. I'd be more than happy to help with some temporary housing of livestock. Sorry to hear about this disaster.
For future reference to ALL members, when the power goes out, if we have a tank
duh, then the first thing we should do is find internet access and hit MR with a distress signal and help wil be on its way immediately. Don't wait till things start dieing.
Those of us in particularly 'electric loss prone areas' know when these things might be prolonged. Quick reactions (short of our own backup plans!) can be the difference between life and death.
swimmer
For future reference to ALL members, when the power goes out, if we have a tank
duh, then the first thing we should do is find internet access and hit MR with a distress signal and help wil be on its way immediately. Don't wait till things start dieing. Those of us in particularly 'electric loss prone areas' know when these things might be prolonged. Quick reactions (short of our own backup plans!) can be the difference between life and death.
swimmer
- Location
- Columbia, SC
I just saw this thread (didn't have time to read all of it) but I hope everone is back up very soon! I will keep you guys in my thoughts. We had to buy a generator several years ago. Power went down for 3 days and I ran out about 14 hrs into it. It was great to have. Saved the reef and the fridg and 2 neighbors refig with a couple hundered feet of ext cord. I know its not practical or possible for some due to location and such but it's nice to have just in case...
I can't beleive how lucky I am. I had no idea that almost my entire area is without power for three days untill I saw it on the news this morning. When i got home from work tonight, I went out to do some shopping, and there are cops everywhere directing traffic, and setting up portable lights. There was even a Red Cross station set up at Steinway Street and Ditmars, handing out ice and water.
- Location
- Philippines
i cant beliEve some people in astoria have been out oF power for 6 days now...
Asotria has been out of power because of a fire, due to the storm on at the beggining of the week, on one of the main lines servicing the area. The grocery owner up the block told me that con ed told him, that it might be untill monday.
What really sucks, is that we have a power plant right down the road in northern astoria
What really sucks, is that we have a power plant right down the road in northern astoria
I got a 1300VA ups from staples for $100. Ive done some testing and it will run a 2.5watt airpump for about 3 days. This should be enough for most people. It switches to battery power automatically and charges back up when the power comes back on. I also use one on an aquaclear 110 which is the biggest one they got (14watts) and get about 10hrs out of it. The unit has a digital readout so you wont be guessing how much is left, made by cyberpower. I've contacted cyberpower and APC to try and get a UPS that only powers an outlet (automatically) when the power goes out (airstone in reeftank only when power out) but nobody seems to make one. This would be ideal for us.
I just got back online, power was out for about 8 hours today:grumpy: I left work early when I got the word and was able to set up my inverter/battery until my father brought over his generator around 5pm. I was running the inverter for on my Tunze 6000 until I got the generator and then I powered the whole tank for the remainder of the time.
What a pain but I guess I can't complain because there are people on my block that have been out since Monday :banghead:
What a pain but I guess I can't complain because there are people on my block that have been out since Monday :banghead:
- Location
- New Rochelle
We've been lucky at New Rochelle. When I got home today when the thunderstorm hit, the power went out and came right back on. I will have to show my wife how to hook up the inverter and hopefully if the power does go out, she is home to save my tank.
griMReefer
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- Location
- hillside @ 188 st, qnz-nas border
i'm sorry for all the people in areas like corona, astoria, woodside, sunnyside, south j hts, north elmhurst, etc whose power went out.
are gas operated generators legal?
my brother who works for ConEd (just reads meters) was telling me how they are saying they are fixing the problems so they don't happen again, and blaming it on fires and the storms, but that its only partially true, that the real problem is that coned cant keep up with all the illegal apartments, something about dozens of illegal apartments on each block in those dense areas, that will always pull more power than even the biggest capacitators installed underground and in the poles will ever be able to handle. he said even in 1 family zones there are still typically 1 family houses with up to 10 apartments each with each unit having its own fridge, AC, television, electric stoves, mwwaves and other appliances - and that coned doesnt want to do an exposee on that if it doesnt have to, because it would diminish the billions of dollaz in revenue from all the illegal dwelling units households usage. i lived in corona and yeah wondered why electricity would go out even in winter months. and back then during the 50hr long summer blackout i did lose alot.
anyways you guys if you can install a generator outdoors and its legal maybe its worth it for all your expensive livestock, cause you can't count on the outtages problem being resolved in the coming years because of the above issue only getting bigger. and also have to face whenever it goes down it can take up to a week to get back power.
i am in the process of taking down my tanks because of humidity problems in my basement, otherwise i'd offer board.
please post what sort of stuff died on you?
are gas operated generators legal?
my brother who works for ConEd (just reads meters) was telling me how they are saying they are fixing the problems so they don't happen again, and blaming it on fires and the storms, but that its only partially true, that the real problem is that coned cant keep up with all the illegal apartments, something about dozens of illegal apartments on each block in those dense areas, that will always pull more power than even the biggest capacitators installed underground and in the poles will ever be able to handle. he said even in 1 family zones there are still typically 1 family houses with up to 10 apartments each with each unit having its own fridge, AC, television, electric stoves, mwwaves and other appliances - and that coned doesnt want to do an exposee on that if it doesnt have to, because it would diminish the billions of dollaz in revenue from all the illegal dwelling units households usage. i lived in corona and yeah wondered why electricity would go out even in winter months. and back then during the 50hr long summer blackout i did lose alot.
anyways you guys if you can install a generator outdoors and its legal maybe its worth it for all your expensive livestock, cause you can't count on the outtages problem being resolved in the coming years because of the above issue only getting bigger. and also have to face whenever it goes down it can take up to a week to get back power.
i am in the process of taking down my tanks because of humidity problems in my basement, otherwise i'd offer board.
please post what sort of stuff died on you?
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Ther should not be illegal apartments anywhere and if con ed knows about these apartments they should report them! I don`t know if you remember what happend in the Bronx when an illegal room was set up in an apartment and five fireman had to jump from a five story window and two of them died just because someone wanted to make a few bucks!!! Just remind your brother of this little bit of info.......
griMReefer
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- Location
- hillside @ 188 st, qnz-nas border
Tim said:
well he just reads meters, people always have excuses like they say its their family lives there, did anyone see there was such a case on tv where they were actually COMPLAINING about the system of reporting anonymously via 311 -- and i think it was channel 4 that was saying people abuse the 311 system to report everyone annonymsouly, the funniest thing they showed on that very apartment the owners were complaining they are doing nothing wrong, was a GAS STOVE in the basement along with a bed in a room without escapable windows, it was so funny the guy with that house was making himself out to be a victim under the xcuse that family just live there, not renters. anyway yeah my brother just says coned doesn't install separate meters anymore without verification of the C of O but hes had people try to bribe him all the time to get it done and stuff like that. yeah the problem is theres millions of illegal apts in NYC but yeah there's not supposed to be any anywhere.
the reality is nowadays you see like 50 obreros come out of 1 basement every morning, what to do .... :irked: i hate to continue to sound so grim and grumpy so i'll stop there.
just i just got back from open houses in florida and ready to move but its such a catch 22 -- in all the gloominess and the crowdedness and filth of NYC a parta me still loves ma crib yah :splitspin
so they say power is gonna be out for 2 weeks for so many people in qns. sorry yos peace out
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