Emergency - black out -???

eza82

eza82

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We have just had a Black out right in the middle of light period, I have not moved so quick in a long time.............. went from a 2200w setup to 4 stage to a 1400w two stage running off a genarator...... I was lucky....... A quick few leads.......... bit of unleaded i was away again.... only to find the power back on again 1 hour later...... ANY WAY how would you deal with an emergency.............. Have you got a plan , and what is it??
Or have you ever lost a crop due to black out ?????
 
eza82

eza82

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.... Any natural disasters.... power out, no water >>>??/ someone in New Orlenes must of lost a big crop????
 
eza82

eza82

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Time to invest my dank brother or sister ?..... Ive just got a cheap genarator: 5.5hp 2400w 240v unleaded cost me about $500 aussie dollars did the job .....
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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Sister, I would be. I'm thinking more long term, I want to change over to wind power, but I need to move first. I'm sure there's some kind of retarded city ordinance against having wind power in town.
 
eza82

eza82

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worth havin anyway........ Not to many sisters on here.... great to see...... and by look of it I have something to learn from you ......
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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having a gas generator really lost it's appeal when gas hit over $4.00 per gallon last summer. The price is way down now from that, but it was a taste of what's to come. I'm trying to come up with ways to get off of petrochemicals.
 
DontKnowBeans

DontKnowBeans

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My plants would be history too. Fortunately, although we frequently have brief power outages, lasting a minute or less, it's extremely rare to have one that lasts an hour or more.
 
Nvr2Stond

Nvr2Stond

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they have these things that you plug into an outlet and it has a battery which charges constantly while being plugged in...it works as a power strip with a battery so if your power stops you have 30 or so mins of light too take care of your shit
 
eza82

eza82

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Its my worst nightmare........... All that hard work down the drain........... All that $$$ down the drain...... then my plants grow legs and do the bolt down the road never to be seen again....... and i cry. ...lol
 
In.The.Basement

In.The.Basement

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I actually did have a backup plan in case the elctricity went out....im on cfls though...my plan was to take one of those portable car jumpers, then take this Portawatt thing i have for the car which can convert 300 DC to AC and then just plug that into the jumper and plug a light into the portawatt. i tested it and it worked great...dont know for how long and luckily never had to use it. You certainly couldnt hook your system up to it but if its just a few hours 300 watts is better than none, right? Make sure your jumper is always charged up also.
 
misshestermoffitt

misshestermoffitt

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They had a really bad ice storm over a week ago, some of them won't have their power back on until the middle of this month. It got a lot colder there than usual and people were freezing to death / dying from having generators inside. The national guard was going door to door checking on people.

There were some intense I-reports on CNN with iced over trees cracking loudly and crashing to the ground.
 
Louis541

Louis541

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No need for an emergency plan. The year katrina hit new orleans one of the smaller ones hit my house. Power was out for 5 days, the plants just sat in the dark the whole time. They ended up harvesting just fine. Not a single hermie.
 
eza82

eza82

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Louis541 said:
No need for an emergency plan. The year katrina hit new orleans one of the smaller ones hit my house. Power was out for 5 days, the plants just sat in the dark the whole time. They ended up harvesting just fine. Not a single hermie.
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So you feed & watered but NO LIGHT for 5 days 5 nights... and they pulled through ??
 
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