***Official 2024 Weather Thread***
- Thread starter wxman1
- Start date
As for the whole hot vs cold debate, there was one week in January a few years ago where I lost internet for an entire week. That's when I realized I'd rather lose power in July than January.
Yes, you can always bundle up and add another layer to stay warm. Can’t do the opposite when super hot!
It did in Twin Cities. Second one at 530 am knocked out my power. Crossing fingers it gets retored today. Don't need to be tossing out another bunch of food...sort of an annual thing these days.
In-Laws live up in NW Wisconsin (about an hour north of the cities, half hour into Wisco), said they got 2" of rain and some nasty winds. One of the golf courses I play regularly when up there is closed for the day for clean-up and I saw the MN State Fair had to delay their opening today.
My brother said there was a little bit of hail in St Paul. None for me in NE Minneapolis.Torrential downpour and lot-o-thunder but well short of "You're All Going to Die" wind.
And no hail
Super heavy rain...there was a river running down my street and also very windy. My 10 ft tall sunflowers are no longer standing up straight
the rest of the garden looks fine though. I was worried everything would get shredded.Well, ****, gonna be tossing food. No power till late tomorrow per Xcel Energy. I am so ******* sick of throwing out hundreds of dollars of food time and time again. ******* weather.
mini gen dedicated to the fridge/freezer.
Nothing worse than that sweaty, itchy, slimy "need a second wipe" feeling...
And when its sweaty back there lord help you if you are using some cheap one ply stuff.....
mini gen dedicated to the fridge/freezer.
This would be my first option. Another possibility would be to buy a small chest freezer, use it as intended, and fill it the Night rest of the way up with ice cream buckets of water to make large cubes. When the power goes out, ice can go in the fridge or fridge items into the chest freezer to get by short term. Running cost is relatively low if the freezer is kept full
This would be my first option. Another possibility would be to buy a small chest freezer, use it as intended, and fill it the Night rest of the way up with ice cream buckets of water to make large cubes. When the power goes out, ice can go in the fridge or fridge items into the chest freezer to get by short term. Running cost is relatively low if the freezer is kept full
So hot I saw a fire hydrant following a dog
After the derecho I don't think I will ever go without some sort of generator
