In the last 25 years I'm pretty sure I've lost power 3-4 times in total.

Never an issue. I don't live in a 3rd world country. I have had issues in some places I've traveled. Haiti, Cuba and Rio de Janiero had problems.

What the ****? You do know power grid go out in the US too right?


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Living rural we deal with outages from time to time, some go long. I have deep repect for our Rural Electric Coop and the work they do. But about 10 years ago, I made the decision to instal a whole house backup generator and its been a blessing since day one

If I had a basement, I wouldn't be too worried about it.

In a summer power outage, a basement won't get hot.

In 110+ heat, my house heats up quickly.

When Sacramento hit the all time high record of 116 a few years ago, my power got turned off. Not because of a rolling black out due to insufficient power supply, but because local equipment over heated.

The equipment hadn't been designed for that high of Temps (and the previous days highs) and the continuous max load. Because the area had never seen Temps/heat wave like that, duh.

The ~$400 I spent was worth it for that one event for me.

I don't do well in heat and it was a very small investment for me.

The chance of losing power obviously varies by location as does the inconvenience to different households as does the experience of being prepared for various contingencies.

I keep two weeks of drinking water on hand. I'm connected to a city water supply, so I really doubt I'll ever use it. But I have space and it's really cheap and easy to do, so why not.

My solar system has a controller that allows it to run independent of the grid. If I lose power, it trips and diverts power to preferred breakers on the main panel.

Doesn't do much good after dark, though.

I think I read the top three causes of power outages were:

1. Traffic accidents
2. Construction workers cutting a power line or needing to turn it off temporarily to move a line.
3. Weather related.

Transformers blowing were 4th I think.

OP: You sure you paid your electric bill?

I’m in Palmer. I’ve been to Juneau many, many times. In fact, I’ll be there January 3.

How did you make your way to Alaska or are you a native?

I'm always curious of how people move there.

Military?
Oil industry?
Other job?
Nature?

I greatly miss the gravity heater the house I grew up in had. Fond memories of sitting on the steel grate after running around in the snow for hours.

That thing had to be super efficient

I have a stash of Hustlers in case I can’t watch pornog online

Pot belly stove and a cord of firewood.

I own one of these. Won't run the house but minor shit can run. Solar generators can be run in the house without issue

https://inergytek.com/products/inerg...-power-station


Also have two coleman cooking stoves and about 50 of those little green propane bottles

This site tells you where current power outages are ocurring, I keep it in my "favorites" for some reason. Not sure why.

https://poweroutage.us/

How long does it take to charge up the inergytek by solar power when it is low generally speaking Hog?