Emergency Power/Storms/Prepping etc
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Will probably be closer to $25K installed with the ATS etc
So are we! Freezers are stocked, water stacked, and pantry loaded.
Eight hundred gallons of propane for our Generator.
Eight hundred gallons of propane for our Generator.
Its funny, half the people here in Houston are losing their mind, and the other half are saying it will not get anywhere near here
Its way to soon to say either way, to me, it seems like a good time to get prepared. But, I'm the crazy one of course
Its way to soon to say either way, to me, it seems like a good time to get prepared. But, I'm the crazy one of course
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Here is the latest GFS run with Aug 6 forecast. It’s widely inaccurate this far out. But damn if Texas isn’t in the calculations again!
A forecast out to Aug 6th?? The NWS cannot even forecast the next day, based on my 60 years of watching the weather. The standard forecast is today's weather is tomorrow's forecast.
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Looks like the 00 shows it hitting almost Florida, and the 06 shows it somewhere even further
This SHOULD be a wake up call to everyone that something could hit in a few weeks, so prepare (But, it won't)
This SHOULD be a wake up call to everyone that something could hit in a few weeks, so prepare (But, it won't)
If someone lives in a hurricane zone and is not always prepared, they never will be. It helps clear the gene pool.
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We Floridians like to wait until about 3 hours from landfall and then panic and stand in long lines for those 3 hours at Costco 
We Floridians like to wait until about 3 hours from landfall and then panic and stand in long lines for those 3 hours at Costco
Is that before or after the same wait at the gas station? I'm trying to establish the correct order of operations...We Floridians like to wait until about 3 hours from landfall and then panic and stand in long lines for those 3 hours at Costco
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I'm ready too. Finally got my dashboard setup for the gen. Got oil, spark plugs, oil filter, etc. I'm ready. Just need the beer...
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Genmon fetches everything and sends it to the MQTT broker. Then Node Red -> InfluxDB -> Grafana. It has taken me longer to setup the dashboard than anything else!
I had to run ethernet out to the generator for the Raspberry Pi to host genmon out there. Wifi just wasn't cutting it with the RPi buried inside the generator cabinet. Took me a couple iterations of trying various RPi cases. Had to find one that could enclose the RPi with the pintsize.me HAT, was somewhat water resistant, and that could also fit a fan inside. I don't need it water proof (since it's located inside the battery cabinet where it stays dry at the top) but I needed air flow for the fan and I needed something where indirect rain/moisture couldn't land on the RPi/HAT and short anything out.
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Nice!
Yeah, I hate wifi so I ran multimode fiber to the generator in the trenched conduit
FEMA just asked for proof of address, proof of outage and the sales receipt for my generator, I kind have a feeling I'm going to get my Ecoflow Delta 2 for free
Yeah, I hate wifi so I ran multimode fiber to the generator in the trenched conduit
FEMA just asked for proof of address, proof of outage and the sales receipt for my generator, I kind have a feeling I'm going to get my Ecoflow Delta 2 for free
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I guess my question is, what is it for? People that don't have insurance? Deducible payout?
I guess I need to read up on that. I should have checked into this during Hurricane Michael back in 2018. I've gotten SBA loans before via FEMA decades ago but have never used them for anything else.