Started shopping late, power outage you know, items on the list:
1. Gas for the generator. 2. Lamp oil for the lamp. 3. White gas [camp fuel] for the Coleman stove and the Coleman easy light lamp. 4. Boxes of emergency candles. 5. Matches, to start items 2 to 4.
Sounds like a list for someone going off camping or to their cabin, but no, these are essentials for the average home here in Nain in these Hydro uncertain days.
Next on the list I think I will Google how to “cook a roast turkey and all the vegetables on a Coleman stove”.
Also while doing the rounds I got the impression that more and more people are thinking [very seriously] of investing in a back up generator.
For someone with a store I would think it essential, for homes as well, but I do understand monetary considerations come into play.
For people with one or two or more household incomes then there is not excuse {unless you have a wood stove]. For people on fixed incomes or EI or social assistance, then cost would be a major concern.
I know I gave it some serious thought before buying ours, to date I have no regrets, and it’s only November and three months since the fire at the Hydro plant.
Maybe there should be a push to speed up the delivery of alternatives to diesel plants?
4 comments:
Thank goodness for the generator. Now you have to hope that there won't be a fuel shortage so you can't run the darn thing.
Hydro did the same in the town where I live, cut corners and consequently we have unexplained power cuts, not quite as bad as yours though.
Still in Florida, sunny/cloudy today.
We are heading to Cape Canaveral to see the shuttle launch tomorrow.
Going to a rocket launch eh? Is the space cadet off to the moon or what?
Enjoy the rest of your stay in lotus land.
Hi,Brian just wondering if your power corp is part of a good ol'boys or are they just unorganized? One would think that when the back up generator becomes the primary generator, where's the back up generator? Have to forgive my hostilities against Municipalities, but where were from Integrity and transparency are out the window.
Blbenef: Municipality and hydro are two separate entities here, Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro is a provincial government owned entity. I would guess that Hydro and the municipality are at loggerheads more than not. Small population base, remote communities leads to the mess we are in now.
Also, if you want to know what goes on at council meetings here you have to attend them as an observer, no on line information, just a newsletter and notices posted around town.
Generally people have ample opportunity to agree or object to any new proposals.
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