Electric Frypan Technical Advice
Hurricane season is coming And I need an alternative to a weather exposed stove The huge stove has it's own custom vinyl cover But the tropical kitchen has a palm frond roof and stick walls so ...
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I'll attempt to answer some questions
- Quicksilver may weight 18,000 lbs with water but a category 5 hurricane on the beam would roll it over
- It is attached to buried 20" truck tires by 6" x 1/2" overcenter big rig clamps and nylon straps
- RV parks are non existent in this area and it's not unusual to pay $600 month
- Mexico has grown since I parked the old girl. My income however has groan
- A 3-day trip to Patzcuaro in the rig would cost $500 versus $150 in the car
- Some of you have wrong perceptions of a hurricane
- Hurricanes down here push a bubble of hot air in front making life miserable
- Jesus was really surprised that the arrival of a bubble of air meant a hurricane is on the way
- Misery is no electricity, no A/C no lights, and only a heat and water producing propane burner in a locked tight small space my family in 7 and with Jesus' sister Andrea it's eight
- Hurricane Patricia whizzed by last year doing TWO HUNDRED + MILES PER HOUR. It was a small storm and hit the coast 200 miles north of here. It cracked the roof of the kid's house and flooded the interior
- The place I was staying in has solid foot thick walls and roof and only one window which was boarded up
- Steel door
- The gen shed is built the same way
- My new casita has 16" walls but no ceiling yet. It is a tiny 19 x 16 structure. I have fans but pushing 95 degree 85% R/H humidity around does little good
- As good as it is built the lower 12" of the genshed gets soaked. The Kubota and Kato get tarped. Remember the air is pushed out of the room past the radiator
- The battery bank has to support everything for a minimum of two days
- Sometimes the power goes off and stays off nine days
- We almost never have a day with no outages most lasting five minutes
- 4 hungry children are a handful and I am the last surviving grandparent
- After a hurricane passes it is not over, without power comes the cleanup and repair
- I have 5.54 hectarias of mangos to take care of
- The Jesus and Brenda have the restaurant
- Until something happens and the price of fuel and tolls is reduced Quicksilver stays anchored
- I attempt to survive on Social Insecurity
- lastly I have a Foreman grill great for cheese sandwiches somewhat of a pain for spaghetti.
