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Storm Prep?

erics210

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What precautions, tips, or tricks does everyone have to help in times of potential power outages and extreme cold.
 

MadReefer

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During the move I totally forgot to pick up generator so hoping for the best.
Found a used on and waiting for a reply.
 

kevin

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I have a coralvue hydros setup hooked up to a big battery. It'll run my return pumps and my dosers/ato ect. It wont run my heaters or lights and a few other things. I also have a cyberpower ups backup, but its mostly for surge protection.
Thunderstorm fried part of my hydros a few months back so I got the UPS
 

MadReefer

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I am not snowed n but iced in. Plow pushed all snow / in front of driveway and impossible to shovel. I hope the HOA sends the backhoe over tomorrow.
 

erics210

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Although there was lots of snow, it really didn't stick to trees, which really helped reduce the risk of downed trees.
I did spend all evening Friday and Saturday cleaning carburetors on a snowblower and a couple generators.
Sadly I broke one of the fuel valves removing the nub due to the extreme cold. Think it was 7 at the time it broke. So have replacements on the way, but hopefully wont need them.
 

ericrodriguez

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I am not snowed n but iced in. Plow pushed all snow / in front of driveway and impossible to shovel. I hope the HOA sends the backhoe over tomorrow.
They did the same here, I had to shovel around 3 feet yesterday and 3 feet today but today was a little more difficult. It took me like 40 minutes.
 

DEL

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I learned that my generators battery is dead. Hopefully that's all that's wrong with it.
 
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