Generator Bad Weather
All. . . . . Can portable generators be used during rain/snow storms? Do they have to be protected from the elements? thanks . . . ken
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Reiteration, yeah yeah yeah
"The gen shed is concrete with a K-monel door."
Bury 1000X20" concrete filled tires until only a bit of the top arc shows. Painted white for walking safety.
Chains with hooks -chain binders- four of them. Attached directly to the 3/8" steel frame which is fish plated. Quicksilver is bulletproof.I have a month's worth of drinking water and a quarter ton of food in the freezers and refrigerators. It might be expensive but I have AC (after the storm). The new Lifeline is going to allow me to live normally during the storm, lights, fans, etc. When the gen shed was built, I bought a lot of 1/2" rebar and slipped bundles the three down the cement blocks. Then six-sack concrete was poured, bucket by bucket down the holes. I used ground marmol, onyx instead of sand and a finer grade crush of gravel. Basalt, not granite. Jesus made the blocks in his former. They are not the crumbly krappola normally found. They are six sack cement with marmol filler. Take a cold chisel and a drilling hammer and smack a block. It will notch a Proto cold chisel. Drilling it takes a high amp SAS drill, water cooling and a lot of patience. it took Jesus four hours to drill 8 1-1/8" holes to make a 4" knockout for a drain pipehe forgot. The deck is not that same level of strength but is 10" depth poured over rebar. it took 1/4 big rig load of rebar to build this stuff. The steel mill is 40 km away in Lazaro. I helped a resident wire his elaborate vacation home. I got an outstanding deal on the rebar. He is or was the superintendent of Las Truchas steel mill. When you drive across a salt water bridge in the USA the light piers, sidewalks, whatever is exactly the formula I used. The Mexicans screamed but I sprinkled marmol on top of the slabs and had them trowel it in for wet slip resistance. They prefer a leg breaking mirror teflon finish. They also screamed at my hot tar and pea gravel house roof. The one that heals leaks every single hot afternoon. And the two inches of firm foam insulating the walls and ceiling. Americans plan, Mexicans improvise.
After a category four, I frequently have to move into Quicksilver for a few days and let the casa dry out. 101% relative humidity is the only way I can explain it.
Where ya gonna run when a storm the size of Texas is bearing down? Somewhere where instead of lots of rain they have flash floods? RVs do not move quickly in Mexico. The family moves out of their place and into mine if the going gets tough. Thankfully almost all big ones bypass this section of the coast. But Jesus still drags his "lancha" to 70' above sea level. My p;ace is 300' above sea level.
"The gen shed is concrete with a K-monel door."
Bury 1000X20" concrete filled tires until only a bit of the top arc shows. Painted white for walking safety.
Chains with hooks -chain binders- four of them. Attached directly to the 3/8" steel frame which is fish plated. Quicksilver is bulletproof.I have a month's worth of drinking water and a quarter ton of food in the freezers and refrigerators. It might be expensive but I have AC (after the storm). The new Lifeline is going to allow me to live normally during the storm, lights, fans, etc. When the gen shed was built, I bought a lot of 1/2" rebar and slipped bundles the three down the cement blocks. Then six-sack concrete was poured, bucket by bucket down the holes. I used ground marmol, onyx instead of sand and a finer grade crush of gravel. Basalt, not granite. Jesus made the blocks in his former. They are not the crumbly krappola normally found. They are six sack cement with marmol filler. Take a cold chisel and a drilling hammer and smack a block. It will notch a Proto cold chisel. Drilling it takes a high amp SAS drill, water cooling and a lot of patience. it took Jesus four hours to drill 8 1-1/8" holes to make a 4" knockout for a drain pipehe forgot. The deck is not that same level of strength but is 10" depth poured over rebar. it took 1/4 big rig load of rebar to build this stuff. The steel mill is 40 km away in Lazaro. I helped a resident wire his elaborate vacation home. I got an outstanding deal on the rebar. He is or was the superintendent of Las Truchas steel mill. When you drive across a salt water bridge in the USA the light piers, sidewalks, whatever is exactly the formula I used. The Mexicans screamed but I sprinkled marmol on top of the slabs and had them trowel it in for wet slip resistance. They prefer a leg breaking mirror teflon finish. They also screamed at my hot tar and pea gravel house roof. The one that heals leaks every single hot afternoon. And the two inches of firm foam insulating the walls and ceiling. Americans plan, Mexicans improvise.
After a category four, I frequently have to move into Quicksilver for a few days and let the casa dry out. 101% relative humidity is the only way I can explain it.
Where ya gonna run when a storm the size of Texas is bearing down? Somewhere where instead of lots of rain they have flash floods? RVs do not move quickly in Mexico. The family moves out of their place and into mine if the going gets tough. Thankfully almost all big ones bypass this section of the coast. But Jesus still drags his "lancha" to 70' above sea level. My p;ace is 300' above sea level.
