KarenG a few nosey Generac questions as our neighbor is looking into one.
Does your house have a natural gas line running to it?
If it does, why did they hook the generator up to a propane tank?
Ie: Pips brother has an underground natural gas line running to his house from the street for his furnace/Stove & 'they ?' ran an underground line right to his Generac in the backyard.
How long will your generator run on (your size) 1 tank of propane ??
~ When looking at these power outage maps remember the numbers provided by the power companies are Customers Tracked & Customers Out.
~A "Customer" is
ONE electric meter .. meaning 1 to many people can live at one meter.
US avg is 2.6 people per household. I'm not sure which households have 6/10 tenths of a person. LOL.
So the true actual number of people without power is much higher.
https://poweroutage.us/area/state/georgiaImage below is Karen's county in GA. Lowndes.
So that's 32,259 electric meters serviced by Georgia Power Company.
31,738 of which have no power or 98.4 percent of the county. As of 09.28.24 9 AM EDT.
So if you use an average of lets say 2-3 people per meter that's a lot of humans in the dark, no AC .. etc .. etc that's a total bummer for extended power outage periods.
2nd image is the latest 3 day rainfall totals from Helene.
Two 1/2 FEET of rain in Busic, NC.