My 8000 runs enough for the family and I. Gas furnace, fridge, two lamps, and tv. I bought my generac 8000 watt two years ago and did the natural gas conversion this year. It's not the fancy standby but it is on a transfer switch. The natural gas conversion is nice cause I can still unhook and take it on the road and burn gasoline.
Hobbes what part of Moore were you in? I was east of I35 and about 1/4 mile from the path and my power was only off for about 24 hours and it may have not been that long. I was stunned, I actually left to go get another small inverter generator so I could plug in my flat screen and when I got home everything was back on. Next door neighbor said we never even lost Uverse, her phone worked the entire time. I was thinking like you in that it would be about a week. Poles were down everywhere.
18th and City Ave
I heard it coming.
Loud roar that just kept getting louder.
At the last minute, the pitch lowered and I knew it had veered North of me.
I walked out a couple blocks.
Kelly elementary school was rubble.
Gas meters gone and gas lines spewing in the air.
2 blocks from my house there was roof damage to homes.
3 blocks there was major damage.
4 blocks and all that was left was clean concrete slabs, trees with no lmbs or bark even.
Crazy thing, a few years later another one came in 2 blocks South of me that time.
I was in the car headed home on the I35 service road.
Couldnt see anything for heavy driving rain and all of a sudden it popped out of the rain right in front of me.
Generator came in handy again.
Then 2013 and the house in Newalla took a direct hit.
Generator was useless that time.
Looking at those monsters coming at you had to be terrifying.
I was living in an apartment on the west side of Stillwater a while back when the tornado that hit the west and then east sides of town came through. I happened to look out the window just as the tornado passed a couple hundred yards south of my apartment. I watched, fascinated, as it approached, but when I put my hand on the window and felt it bowing out, I realized I better take cover. Fortunately for me, no damage but the hotel just southeast of my complex took a major hit.
Kay county where I live, has one of the highest tornado's per acre stats. Living here all my life, I've seen two, both at a long distance that caused no damage.
Most develop, move along a ways, and dissipate.
Nobody see's them as there is a very low population density in Kay county, but NOAA has a huge antenna array around Billings that records all of the activity.
Most develop, move along a ways, and dissipate.
Nobody see's them as there is a very low population density in Kay county, but NOAA has a huge antenna array around Billings that records all of the activity.
All the years I've lived in OK, I've never seen one, even the times we went out tornado chasin'. On the eastern half of the state most of the bad storm lines seem to come through later afternoon or evening, so it's often dark. Seems like the western half of the state gets 'em more during daylight, as storms fire up and move through earlier int eh afternoon.
Holy schnikes! That's too damn close! Ever thought about moving?
I moved out in 2009.
Moved to Newalla, East of lake Tbird and was hit by a tornado in 2013.
I'm beginning to think that little patch of Moore that I lived in must be the luckiest parcel of land in all of Oklahoma.
