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loli phabay

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7. advantage of living in a rural area, we often get cut off for days a t a time and lose power

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Mon Oct 29, 2012, 05:09 AM

Oct 2012

so we are always prepared with lots of food, other supplies and most importantly generators, we can go for up to a month on ours if the kids limit their tv etc though we are not expecting to bad a time out in the mountians of VA.

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Hurricane Sandy-electric co. says possible outages 4-7 or 10 days for some [View all] graham4anything Oct 2012 OP

I'm sorry, Graham. Lefta Dissenter Oct 2012 #1

Take it all seriously and hang in there. Good luck. nolabear Oct 2012 #2

Sometimes cable modems or cordless phones have batteries for backup power. gkhouston Oct 2012 #3

When I had phone service through the cable company, I had one. Ruby the Liberal Oct 2012 #4

you are lucky dhol82 Oct 2012 #5

trees are a problem here too and a week's blackout will put it into election day graham4anything Oct 2012 #6

advantage of living in a rural area, we often get cut off for days a t a time and lose power loli phabay Oct 2012 #7

re:generators graham4anything Oct 2012 #8

i got a propane fueled one that automatically comes on loli phabay Oct 2012 #10

what electric company is this? TorchTheWitch Oct 2012 #9

NJ graham4anything Oct 2012 #11