Power out again. My husband and I work from home and requi

buffaloglenn :
Thanks for the coins my friend.

Joke of the century!!! LOL

NeverPayRetail :
Thank you. I am looking into that. I was looking at a smaller generator since this will not be my "forever home" any suggestions?

buckeyetotexan : This wasn't supposed to be my "forever home" either and we're going on 35 years!!!! There are some good portable generators out there. Often see those on sale. Now, they're not going to run your AC or your entire household, but you should be able to keep the fridge going, a couple of fans, and your wifi/computers on HOWEVER, it is recommended that you only CHARGE your computer battery while on generator, and not actually use it. Something about SINE waves. THEN there's always having to have enough gasoline stored at your house to run the generator. PLUS you'll have to run your generator away from the house due to carbon monoxide.

I use an uninterruptible power supply for my computer, monitor, router, and Tachus modem. It filters out the the short quick power blips and will run all of those for about an hour. The cost was about $150 from Amazon ($190 now). For days of outage from storms I have a portable generator that plugs into my electrical panel. Fortunately since I bought the generator I haven't needed to use it.
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buckeyetotexan: two options. A) get a generator and Satellite dish. Or B) move to another state. I'm going with B myself. We've been here 3 years between the power outages, cable outages, & the poor cell reception. I've had it.

We got a battery backup because of that reason. If the power goes out, we will still have internet for at least 90 minutes or so. My husband used to work from home some days. That would allow him enough time to notify the office what was going on and work on any thing that he could during that time. If he was in the middle of a big project, he could find a good stopping point so he wouldn't lose progress.

I will say, however, I'm in Greentree and my lights keep blinking like they want to go off. It's like someone is standing nearby messing with a dimmer switch. I'm just waiting for the power to go out.

StanKato buckeyetotexan :
Yep that's about it. Or move out of Kingwood DS did have the power problem when he lived close to the Med Center but then it wasn't a great part of town . We've been in AZ 8 months and have not lost power once- not even a blip. Of course that's more expensive than a generator 🤣
Where in Ohio did you come from. We lived in Cincinnati. There are quite a few Buckeyes on this board

Labslady: my wife is from Parma, Ohio. I'm from North Jersey.

Labslady :
I also came from Cincinnati. I totally agree I have met many people from Ohio and Michigan too.

teatime :
Power has been out in Pinehurst since around 11:00 last night!