OT: Battery backup

[C Day]

I did not give thought to earthquakes.

If the electric power is off, where do you buy gasoline?
If nat. gas pipe is ruptured, where do you get nat. gas?
Propane? What if truck can not get in to refill?

We just had 3 days, off power because of ice and huge, fallen, oak 
and maple limbs.  A friend has suggested I get a nat. gas system 
like he has @ $3,000, plus installation.  Problem is, if I already 
had the system, it would have been located where a large limb would 
have smashed into the top of the cabinet Sunday night.  I have no 
idea if the generator would have survived that limb ...



On 2/25/2011 5:38 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, C Day wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone use natural gas powered, automatic start-up, stand-by
>> generator rather than gasoline powered?
>
> My brother does, having it installed when his house was built.
>
> I priced out an automatic system like this, around 12KVA, sufficient to run
> everything.  The cost was somewhat north of 12K installed.  The 3KVA Honda
> cost $2,000.
>
> Some argue that natural gas might be shut off in the event of an
> earthquake.  This is certainly a consideration around here, and other areas
> prone to earthquakes.  Our natural gas was OK during the last significant
> earthquake we had here, although there may have been outages in Seattle
> were some buildings suffered serious damage.
>
> Bill
-------------- next part --------------

No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com 
Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3467 - Release Date: 02/25/11 02:34:00