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Subject A question? Preppers in the Sandy area. What worked and what didn't?

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I was out of power/cable/internet for 3 days. Food was not a problem. One thing i noticed is we had no water(water pump wasn't working or so we thought). On the third day of having no power/water "we" decided to buy a new water well pump(one that goes about 100' deep). New pump and control box cost us about $850. After all the working pulling the old pump out and replacing it with a new one, the rest of the day was spent messing around with the relay/control box. After a full day spent messing around with it all it was figure out that the control box was not gettinenough power from the generator(meaning $850 down the toilet). Ended up running a 220v line, hardwired from the generator to the control box and bam it worked! Then... pretty much 2 hours afterwards i went to shut the generator off for the night and went to go switch the main breaker(grid-switch) on. As soon as i laid in bed the power/cable/etc.. came back on.

3 days in the darkness wasnt too bad, even tho i didnt prepare beforehand... we were very well prepared. Had enough gas for the generator to run it 2+ days. It was a definite wake-up call because we heard it could take up to 2 weeks to get power back but that was all just an estimate. On the other hand... If the power went off and never came back... completely a different story. I know of a local family that lost their house due to a fire because of their generator(don't mess with a generator if you don't know what you are doing... you will burn your fucking house down).

Overall no damage done to the house/property but as for my town, it's a different story.
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i know ....
for some odd reason my block in brooklyn did not lose power...we did not have 1 tree fall....heck we did not even loose anything more then big twigs????
1 block in any direction had large branches falling on houses and cars...even whole trees ripping up sidewalks and streets!
why spare us, my block?
just be thankful!
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Sometimes you get lucky. My area was not "too" bad but i guess it was bad heading towards the sub-station. They had to make sure they hadd all the connections up before turning the power back on. The very night of the storm i had my generator as soon as the power went out and checked my local power-supply website(www.nyseg.com). At that time... there were about 80% of the county without power. Typing this right now there is still 44.6% of the county without power.

I just wonder what most of the people did in my town/county without a generator because i know there is a hell of alot higher percentage of those that dont have one than those that do. All the food in their fridges must have slowly started to rot. I'm glad i have my "Honda EG 3500x"(20 year old generator that starts everytime on just 1 pull).
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We had 5 1/2 day outage for Irene, then another 5 1/2 day outage for the snowstorm last Halloween.  That was the last straw and we got our generator.  But we went thru both those outages without power.

It was OK.  Most of the food even survived Irene, of course we were careful opening the fridge and used stuff with attention to what would go bad first, but remember it was summer, and we had to throw out very little food.

Meanwhile the idiots on CNN.com are saying you have to throw out food after 4 hours or something like that.  Their advice is worse than useless.
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Sadly many people will hang on every word CNN says.
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Original Message A question of Preppers In the sandy area what worked and what didn't ?

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