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Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett
I lucked out. A supply of portable generators arrived at Walmart as I was going in. Home Depot was sold out. People need to understand that ice a lot of build-up will cause more power outages than any storm might. I'll at least have a couple space heaters and some lights.
I remember Dec. 1989 well...it dropped to 6 degrees.
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Ive been my house in north Houston for going on 6 years now.
The first 3.5-4 years my power went out every 2-3 months. Mostly for less than 12 hours. Of course Harvey was an exception. Out for 2-3 days then out again for a day.
2 years ago my Mother in law and brother in law who live about a half hour from me, called up and we went to the local Generac dealer in north Houston and cut a deal for 3 whole house generators (22 watt?) instead of 11k a piece we paid about $8500 each and got 3 yrs of Maint. And 10 yr warranty included.
Pretty good deal. My power has been out 20 minutes in the last 2 years.........the damn thing has run a total of 12 hours and 99% of that is on the weekly automated test cycle. The electronics on this thing can email you a Maint. Report............so much for needing a generator.
I do feel a little more comfortable watching this weather come in
