No Power=No Gas

[tt11758]

Well Path to tell you the truth I'd take your 12 over this 4-5 (at my house). Here our cities are not equipped at all to handle this kind of weather. Yesterday so basically 48hrs later they put down a minimal amount of sand on one of our busiest roads by my house.

And on top of all that we dont get the kind of snow you get. We get snow, then it melts, then freezes, then snows again. So there is a layer of Ice below the top layer of wet snow. And 9-10 the roads already are wet from a previous days rain. So literally out side my house we have 2-1/2 inches of ice on the road. It pretty crazy.

I have a brother-in-law who moved from northern Iowa to southern Missouri.  The first winter there, after the first 2 inch snowfall, which paralyzed his city, he was out clearing his driveway with his big, track-drive John Deere snow-blower when his neighbor came across the street, introduced himself, and said, "Y'all ain't from around here, are ya?"

[tombogan03884]

Us Yankee's used to laugh when I was at Camp Lejuene NC, first flurry and the Southern boys were in the ditches.
I forget if it was 78 or 79 but they got 3 feet in one storm, They closed the Base for 3 days. The Southern boys were huddled in the barracks, We were jumping off the third floor catwalk into the drifts  

[TAB]

storeing modern gas is very hard to do in the long term.  you are better off rotating your stock.   now diesel on the other hands can be store for long periods of time.

[mortdooley]

 I keep all my plastic 5 gallon gas cans full during hurricane season after that I don't replace what I use in yard equipment until the next spring. Anything left from last year is still good and gets used first. When everything is full I have about 32 gallons that is stored in an insulated barn.

[fightingquaker13]

I keep all my plastic 5 gallon gas cans full during hurricane season after that I don't replace what I use in yard equipment until the next spring. Anything left from last year is still good and gets used first. When everything is full I have about 32 gallons that is stored in an insulated barn.

Just don't tell your insurance company or fire marshall. Honestly, I really think propane is the way to go with generators. As for gas? Well a seperate building for storage is a huge plus. I wouldn't fell comfortable keeping much in the garage.
FQ13

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[cookie62]

Just don't tell your insurance company or fire marshall. Honestly, I really think propane is the way to go with generators. As for gas? Well a seperate building for storage is a huge plus. I wouldn't fell comfortable keeping much in the garage.
FQ13

As a fireman, full gas cans don't explode, propane bottles do.

[TAB]

actually no the don't, they rupture.   A propane tank can not explode as there is no oxygen in it.  It can how ever be heated to the point that the tank ruptures and lets go its flamable contents.   Its actually exactly what happens to a gas can in a fire.  Just a we bit more dramatic.

 

[fightingquaker13]

The main difference (as I understand it and I'll defer to the experts) is that gas cans will give off a flammable vapor. Plus plastic cans won't sustain the heat a metal tank will before leaking gas. Neither will explode. Propane tanks blow off a saftey valve and release gas, gas cans ignite (though gasoline vapor will go boom). Bad news in both cases. Still, I feel better with 11 propane tanks than I would with 55 gallons of gas. Am I wrong? Because enquiring quakers would like to know.
FQ13

[TAB]

Its just a diffrence in presure between a vapor and a liquid, that cuases the rupture.

The propane tanks are more likly to throw shrapel as they rupture at a much higher presure.

 

[billt]

Just an experience I had with Sta-Bil. Back in the 80's when I was living in Illinois I purchased a new Honda lawn mower. The old Toro I had was still in good shape so I spent the afternoon cleaning it all up, changed the oil and spark plug, then filled the tank with fresh gas and a healthy dose of Sta-Bil. I ran it long enough until I could smell the Sta-Bil in the exhaust. I then put it in the basement where it sat for over 6 years. When we were moving to Arizona I brought it out to sell it at a yard sale we were having, and it started on the very first pull! From that point on I've been a firm believer in Sta-Bil.  Bill T.