New Generator

[granz]

Well, I now have a generator. We have wanted one for many years, but now were forced to get one. Yesterday, we got a horrible thunderstorm - lots of very heavy rain, vicious wind and many hours of continuous lightning. It was some of the worst storming I have seen - including living through several hurricane outskirts going past.

Many trees came down, taking out power to about a quarter million SW PA customers. Our power went out about 6 something, last night (Thursday,) and was not supposed to come back until 6:00 tomorrow evening. Our son, Ken, had a new-in-the-box generator that he wanted to sell, so we went over to pick it up. As we were leaving, I got a call from our power company - power is now supposed to return by 11:00PM *SUNDAY*!

We got home about 9:00 tonight, and got the genny running the freezer, and one 'fridge. Anything more puts the genny in "overload" so we can't even run a fan! Another long, sleepless night - fun!

[Chris Savage]

We had 5 tornados (at least 5) touch down in our area. Many trees not just down, but shredded! I have tons of photos from work. The wife and I went shopping today and saw crews out everywhere trying to clear all the debris. Some branches were down on homes and cars. Four cars in the parking lot at work got smashed by a series of trees that hit all four vehicles at once. What a mess. As for power, ours glitched a few times, but didn't go out. Several coworkers said theirs had. I have battery backups for the computers, modem / router, NAS, etc.