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    Default I like electricity and....

    ... hate thunderstorms. A front rolled across the Dallas area last night and knocked my electricity out for half-a-day. Hell of a storm, BTW.

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    Wut?!?! The gadget dude don't have a generator? I thought for sure you'd have sum-ting hooked up to your Spyder and supply house wide power during electricial outages.
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    Quote Originally Posted by M2Wild View Post
    Wut?!?! The gadget dude don't have a generator? I thought for sure you'd have sum-ting hooked up to your Spyder and supply house wide power during electricial outages.
    After last night, I will have a generator setting in the garage from now on. I'm selling the Valk so I will then have room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ataDude View Post
    ... hate thunderstorms. A front rolled across the Dallas area last night and knocked my electricity out for half-a-day. Hell of a storm, BTW.

    I'm backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

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    Here ya go ..... easy fix for sparky. I have them in my main and secondary panels.

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    We have been watching that area for a few days. Hope that's all gone by the time we ryde through there the week of the 21st. Rain is OK, but thunderstorms call for a motel room. Lightening strikes on humans are pretty terminal. Have almost 11,000 on the Spyder and have not ridden in any rain yet.
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    We live in Florida too. So when we built this house we made sure we got it wired for a whole house generator as well as a cement pad poured for said generator. The generator goes through its test once a week, since we got it, no power outages. Figures, but with hubby working from home it was a necessity. We also put in all gas appliances too. So now if the power goes out, my parents already made reservations for the spare bedroom during the hurricanes. So my house is a hurricane shelter. Oh well.

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