Chainbreaker
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Weather forecast was for 1-6" of snow last night in the Southern Willamette Valley (Eugene, OR area). Woke up this morning to over a foot of snow and power was off. Went out and started the MEP-002 and had the house powered up and coffee made before the wife was up. She didn't even know the power was out...lol. Nice to be prepared! Then I had to go down to the barn and start up the other generator for the horse barn, shop and 2nd well pump for horses.
Right now both generators purring along and life is good...well except that I got my 4x4 JD Gator stuck several times and had to shovel it out due to being on an incline with snow on top of wet slick clay and it was high centered. Got er done though and Gator is back up at house ready to roll!
Last I heard several thousand, including us, are still without power due to lines/poles down. In our County, no matter how much they trim the trees in the power line right of way a branch or tree seems to manage to make a direct hit on pwr lines during snow, ice or wind storms.
MEP POWER Yea!!!
Right now both generators purring along and life is good...well except that I got my 4x4 JD Gator stuck several times and had to shovel it out due to being on an incline with snow on top of wet slick clay and it was high centered. Got er done though and Gator is back up at house ready to roll!
Last I heard several thousand, including us, are still without power due to lines/poles down. In our County, no matter how much they trim the trees in the power line right of way a branch or tree seems to manage to make a direct hit on pwr lines during snow, ice or wind storms.
MEP POWER Yea!!!