Power outage - Why always at the worst time - and nice to be prepared

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Last night we lost power for about 4 hours - tree limb dropped on a power line.

Saturday we stopped turning on a dozen Black Copper Marans eggs, both incubators are going, chicks and turkey poults in the brooder under heat lamps and 10 pheasant chicks about 3 days old we bought on Saturday. How did that limb know the worst time to fall and knock out power??????

On a good note since we live about an hour from the beach in North Carolina where about a third of the hurricaines end up.

We have a back up generator and keep it ready to go so our lights were out about 2 minutes.

Steve in NC

 

[Marion]

We live on the coast of NC too Steve and I know how important a generator is to have during hurricane season... but did you know that a generator is "hurricane repellant"? Yep, we bought one after a particularly rough season and have not had to use it except for 2 hours one summer!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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They do work pretty good for that. lol We still use ours often. In Beaufort County we have Progess Energy AKA "no" progress energy. The lights flicker if the sun shines to bright, it's windy, it's not windy, full moon and on and on.

Steve