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Coast is clear, but boy did it come down hard for a little better than a half hour.
.16" in that burst of well needed heavy rain.
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Pull the flag pole down, brought the flash and garbage can in. Sirens a few different times, some small hail, nothing major. Neighbor up the street lost a small tree in his back yard. Trash on the street and yards bc tomorrow is trash morning.
right now, but about bust loose again.
Got another nice soaking from the second round last evening. Another .30" in the rain 🌧 gauge. A little over a half inch for the total for the day.
Hope everyone made it through unscathed yesterday with those storms!
I slept like royalty. Never heard a thing. Walked out the front door and thought someone stole the cars. Went back in and asked the wife. She said it got nasty and she put them all in the barn
Nothing big though. Mostly sticks and leaf debris. During the light show around 9 last night the wind gusts were very bad to where I thought trees might go down considering how saturated the ground was. Luckily nothing severe happened.
Nice light show and rain on the way home. Fields looked to of had enough for the day. For sure one of those days you could clearly see what fields had tile compared to those without.
Big_Holla
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We have lost power 3X in the last 3 weeks due to storms. The first time we lost power it lasted about 8 hours. Second time was for about 6 hours and this last time (Thursday late afternoon) it lasted almost 30 hours, came back on around 8pm last night.
I'm posting this as a great reminder to remember to take care of your generator and don't lose track of time on how long it sits with gas in it, OH and to not be a Pro-Crastinator. The first time it went out I pulled out the generator and couldn't get it started. Bought carb cleaner and sprayed away to no avail. I gave up as it got dark and figured I'd tear apart the carb in the morning. Power came back on so I put it on the back burner, added it to my to-do list. Two weeks later I still had not pulled the carb (Pro-Crastinator at best) and bam, the power went out again. I'll get to it I said again. We had been planning to come down to the farm on Friday (Jenna Allen and I) and planned to sneak in to the summer outing at Dave's Saturday afternoon. Well payback for my procrastination came full throttle on Thursday afternoon and the power was knocked out. I came home from work and instead of packing to leave in the AM I tore apart the carb on the generator. Replaced one o-ring and once I pulled the bell housing where the float was I found the dirty culprit(s). What a fucking mess, all gummed up. Cleaned and scrubbed and once back together one pull later we were up and running. Not wanting to leave Terry at home alone without electric going we decided early yesterday that we would scrub the trip, they were forecasting electric to be back on by Sunday. 8 pm last evening it came back on.
Thinking back we are pretty sure we did not run it last spring/summer and I did not drain it after the last time we used it. That would put it sitting in the garage for at least 1 1/2 years with gas in it. All because I didn't run it out of gas and drain the tank. Oh I was going to, one of those days. Think someone upstairs sent me a message this weekend, get your house in order. So don't be a Chuck, get those generators checked out and prepped BEFORE you need it and that goes with all the other shit we (I) put on the back-burner to get to some day.
I'm posting this as a great reminder to remember to take care of your generator and don't lose track of time on how long it sits with gas in it, OH and to not be a Pro-Crastinator. The first time it went out I pulled out the generator and couldn't get it started. Bought carb cleaner and sprayed away to no avail. I gave up as it got dark and figured I'd tear apart the carb in the morning. Power came back on so I put it on the back burner, added it to my to-do list. Two weeks later I still had not pulled the carb (Pro-Crastinator at best) and bam, the power went out again. I'll get to it I said again. We had been planning to come down to the farm on Friday (Jenna Allen and I) and planned to sneak in to the summer outing at Dave's Saturday afternoon. Well payback for my procrastination came full throttle on Thursday afternoon and the power was knocked out. I came home from work and instead of packing to leave in the AM I tore apart the carb on the generator. Replaced one o-ring and once I pulled the bell housing where the float was I found the dirty culprit(s). What a fucking mess, all gummed up. Cleaned and scrubbed and once back together one pull later we were up and running. Not wanting to leave Terry at home alone without electric going we decided early yesterday that we would scrub the trip, they were forecasting electric to be back on by Sunday. 8 pm last evening it came back on.
Thinking back we are pretty sure we did not run it last spring/summer and I did not drain it after the last time we used it. That would put it sitting in the garage for at least 1 1/2 years with gas in it. All because I didn't run it out of gas and drain the tank. Oh I was going to, one of those days. Think someone upstairs sent me a message this weekend, get your house in order. So don't be a Chuck, get those generators checked out and prepped BEFORE you need it and that goes with all the other shit we (I) put on the back-burner to get to some day.
Same here, run it 5 minutes and then turn the gas valve off and let it run out. Calendar reminder on your phones are a great tool…..
Sea foam/Stabil and topped off tanks are your 2 best friends. No room for moisture and fuel doesn't break down. Fill her up, giver a dosage and let her run for a few minutes. Then shutoff the fuel and let her run the carb dry. If done correctly, she will start up no problem even after 6-12months of sitting.
I do the above and run anything with an engine for a few minutes every month.
I do the above and run anything with an engine for a few minutes every month.
Big_Holla
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Are you putting anything in the gas that sits in the tank? I put some Sea Foam in to run through to help clean it more but wondered long term.