Storms in California and outages
Lars
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Comments (1)Hey, Douglas. The easiest way to do this is to slice one inch wide strips from the exposed sides of the holes. Move the strips over to fill the hole. The edges will grow together just like a skin graft. Sandy...See MoreCalifornia Paints Exterior Storm Stain..
Comments (0)I posted a thread under 'conflicting info from 2 painters' and thanks for all those who posted followups. I found another painter who looked at our cedar wood sidings and said that the west side of the house is really dried up and in bad shape. So he would only prime that area with oil primer and two coats of California Paints latex Storm stain solid. The rest of the house does not need primer, except if after wash ,bare wood is shown, Just 2 coats of solid latex stain. Have any of you worked with California Paints stain? Will it have good coverage in 2 coats since we are having a drastic color change.? I am tending towards taking this route... two coats of solid stain vs 3 coats(1 oil primer,2 coats of paint) Any input much appreciated. Thanks...See MorePower outage Hvac restarts rough hums Anyway to stop?
Comments (8)There's this story about a nuclear plant facing imminent catastrophe. The plant a week or two earlier thought it wise to get rid of the high cost nuclear engineers that run the plant as they said 'what do these guys really do?' All we ever see them do is sit around chat and drink coffee all day. Now however, the nuclear plant is about to blow it's top, which will spew nuclear debris for miles. They get on the phone and call the 'so called' nuclear guy that sat around drinking coffee all day chatting with other workers in the plant. You know a cost cutting move. The guy tells them he will bill them for his services as he 'no longer works there'. They say yes, 'whatever you want'... please HURRY! The nuclear guy is there in 5 minutes studies the panels and instrumentation walks over to a series of switches and knobs and flips a single switch. The nuclear melt down doesn't occur everything goes back into normal operational mode. The next week the plant gets the bill for $250,001.00 They are astounded at the bill and they ask the nuclear scientist to break down the bill as they are having trouble determining what the 'FAIR' cost is for flipping a 'single switch'. The nuclear scientist says sure I can break down the bill for you. To flip the single switch cost $1. To know 'WHICH' switch to flip cost $250,000.00 ----------- There's a lesson in there somewhere....See MoreOT - intentional power outage
Comments (15)So informative, thank you, Jackie! We lose our water in any power outage. The utility delivers it halfway up the hill, and we must pump it the rest of the way. We get a slow trickle of whatever is currently in the tank which allows us to flush once a day for a couple of days. We go to the YMCA for showers and either eat canned food or eat out. A more widespread power outage would make this impossible, but we live on a hill and have unplanned power losses from time to time. We have one of those electric/gas combination ranges. I had been thinking that it would be better to have all-gas, but since the thermostat would be electric, that is probably not an improvement. And oh yes, neither heater or air conditioner. Again, the thermostat doesn't work. I am quite interested in reducing our energy usage and we have had solar panels for about a dozen years now, but even I thought that the no-gas regulation was seriously shortsighted. My husband Tom does have a generator, but it is a pain in the neck to hook up, so we only do it if the power is out for a while. The freezer gets priority. I sometimes lament the loss of a true landline (not the digital kind), but the assaults of telephone spammers have made them unendurable. I have set my cell phone up so that only people I know can reach me. Strangers can leave messages, but my phone won't ring, and spammers almost always hang up without leaving messages. It has returned sanity to my life. Tom is an amateur radio operator (which is why we have the generator) so we could be in contact that way. I have a hand crank radio somewhere, but honestly I don't know where it is. I certainly would require daylight and a calm mood to find it....See MoreLars
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