I am writing this on Saturday night @ 6PM (EST)
UPDATE Sunday 6:50 PM (EST): Our outside cameras around our house, it looks like it just started raining and the ambient temp is 26F. Educated guess is that it is FREEZING RAIN. To point, we still have electricity from Duke Energy.
They are forecasting a major weather event for our area. Because of the Ohio river near us, that is a “huge heat sink” and since Barb & I have lived in the area all our life, it can help shift a weather front a mile or so to 10s of miles.
The weather is now scheduled to encroach our area around 7 AM tomorrow ( Sunday) and continue on until late on Monday.
They tell us that we are on the edge of snow/ice line. South of us may get up to 0.75″ of ICE and we may get up to 0.5″ of ice. We are suppose to get some snow first, then the freezing rain, and then some more snow – up to 6″, and somewhere along the way we may get some sleet. North of us – up towards Indianapolis may get up to 12″ of snow.
Regardless of what happens, we will be fine. We have a 20Kw whole house generator and abt 300 gal of propane in a buried tank in our yard to feed our generator and our central furnace.
Our generator is a auto-start, if Duke Energy’s system fails because of the ice, it will start automatically after abt 15 second. It automatically “exercises” itself every week – on Wednesday – and runs for 12 minutes. I checked the “log” on the generator a couple of days ago and it ran for its scheduled 12 minutes on Wednesday.
If/when the electricity fails, I am not sure if we will have cable/internet and/or cell service. So I am writing this now and when/if it all starts tomorrow, I will be able to just hit SEND.
Filed under: General Problems
I’m in central New York State. We got over a foot of heavy lake effect snow over the weekend. Luckily, the power stayed on. I sincerely hope that you don’t experience any problems.
Good luck to you and your family!
I live in the north east…like you I have a generator…last year the power went out but the generator failed to come on..the reason…the generator preventative maintenence contractor failed to put it in the on switch after his routine semi annual checkup.
The only time that I had someone work on mine was when it was new 10 yrs ago, the electronic circuit board was BAD and they replaced it under warranty. I check the electronic run log on the first of every month to see that it had exercised itself for 12 minutes every week. I have replaced the battery and changed the oil on the system when required. Once I did the same thing and left the auto-off-on switch in the off position, but I caught it when I did the monthly check on the unit.