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Originally Posted by Kami
My tolerance will have to be high...the generator would not fit in the vehicle anyhow. I can live by candle light  |
Kami, remember your plumbing in Mexico...it's electric! If where you live is like most places down here it will operate by an electric pump which either pushes water through the system or by pumping the water to a tinaco or storage tank on the roof which then releases the water by gravity when called for in the system.
We have a generator at the hotel. We found that people on vacation will live without lights or a/c, but want showers and flushable toilets. So if/when we lose power for an extended time after a storm, we fire up the generator to pump water.
At home we just make sure the storage tank (which is bolted to the roof of our house) is completely full just before the storm arrives. We then ration our water use until we get power back.
Some stuff on our huricanne check list:
Secure the hotel (anything that will "fly" when the winds pick up);
Cover the windows of the hotel with plywood...then do the same for our house and the houses of our staff;
Get plenty of drinking water for all of us in the LB "family";
Get gas for the tanks at the hotel and home:
Account for all the animals;
Make sure the ipods are charged.