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We're in for It!- - Now Updated

December 15th, 2006 at 02:13 am

We're about to get hit by another storm tomorrow. They're talking 100 mile per hour winds. It's already dumping huge amounts of very cold rain, the back half of our driveway is a little lake. We need to regravel next summer so it doesn't get so bad.

DH and I spent the day looking at generators and finally decided on one. He's gone back to town to pick it up while I do Mom duty with Rose at basketball practice. He took Tobias with him.

The generator we decided on costs $779, is water and rust proof, and will run for 10 hours on one tank of gas. I belive it is a 2 gallon tank. They had the sign up that says if you apply for the Home Depot card you get 10% off, so DH decided to do that. We won't use it though except for this and will pay it off immediately. It should cover a little more than the sales tax. Our sales tax is 8.4%. WA state has the highest sales tax in the nation, I think, and our county has one of the highest in the state.

This is a really big purchase and I was planning on making it, just not this soon. With the extra paycheck we have the money to do it, and I do not want to lose another $500 worth of food because I can't run my fridge and freezer. On the drive home I started having a really bad feeling that we needed to go back and buy it today and not wait until tomorrow. I've learned to go with those feelings and so has DH. DH called a bit ago and he got the last one there, so I'm glad I sent him back.

I'm not sure on the grand total yet but I'll edit this to add it in when he gets home.

Edited to add:

DH made it home safely! The rain is getting torrential. He decided not to apply for the Home Depot credit card as he thought it would be too easy for him to use it! So no 10% discount but no future temptation to use a credit card either, so maybe we still save in the end. The total cost of the generator with tax came to $844.

7 Responses to “We're in for It!- - Now Updated”

  1. baselle Says:
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    Wishing you all the luck. Sounds like your luck's holding out for the generator. We've only heard about 90 mph gusts for Seattle. Right now all the roads are flooded.

  2. janH Says:
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    I'm sure you know this, but don't run the generator even on an open carport or garage where fumes can get into the house through open windows or something. We lost several people when they ran one indoors, but I never thought of the carport, etc. We almost lost several people in this area after the hurricane when fumes blew into their house from a carport type of area. Fortunately, their dad came home and was an emt or something and rescued them. I don't blame you for getting one, losing food gets so frustrating!

  3. boomeyers Says:
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    Way to go with your intuition! Fill that baby up and don't forget to have a gas can handy to fill it up again!
    Glad DH is home for you! Sounds like he got back in a knick of time.
    I agree with Jan, to be very careful about where you situate it. It is hard to keep it close to be conveinient, yet far enough to be safe. We lost 9 people in various carbon monoxide deaths from our last storm and power outage. Make sure your CM dector is plugged in too or its batteries are up to date!

  4. Thrifty Ray Says:
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    Im not sure if this one is passing us now...or if we're in for it after you...but we are also having high winds and lots of rain tonight. Fortuately, its warm out...like 50 right now...and im hoping it stays above freezing tonight so the roads are safe in the morning.

    Let us know how it goes. We have a generator..primarily used for our trailer...but it is here incase of emergencies...It is a nice security net...and something I feel is a good purchase.

    I hope you're enjoying hubby being home!! At least you have someone to snuggle with during these storms! (not to mention shovel snow if need be!)

  5. LuckyRobin Says:
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    Not to worry. Our house is wired to plug in a generator under the back porch (and is not near any windows or vents), which is open on all sides except the steps side. We don't have to run extension cords from it to the inside. All we have to do is turn it on, plug it into a special outlet, go inside and flip the switch that disables the power should it come back on, and then choose any of six switches we want to turn on, each neatly labelled Fridge, Freezer, Microwave, Computer, Lights, and TV. And no I'm not ashamed of that last one, when we had the house wired the kids were little and watching TV was the only thing that calmed them down during a storm. We also have two carbon monoxide detectors at each end of the house as we use propane.

  6. jersey jen Says:
    1166207333

    everything will be okay!

  7. boomeyers Says:
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    Glad to see you came through this one okay. I was thinking of you as they kept showing it on TV!

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