Sorry about your loss, Kelly. Hope the rest of your fish and livestock will be OK.
Usually we get a power outage here in Langley whenever there is a windstorm. But this time we escaped.
In the fall I always bring back our battery inverters and large RV battery from our cabin, so am ready. They are good for at least a day with keeping the water circulating and heating the water in my tanks (230g). Used them a couple times in the past few years, although never had to go more than 12 hours. I also have a large diesel generator that I could fire up if I had to, but it has never come to that.
That all works fine as long as I am home, as nothing is automatic and requires manual intervention. However, we usually go away to warm climes in the fall or winter, and that always has me worried. We are off to Maui for 2 weeks in Nov, and that is often a bad time here for windstorms.
But I can tell remotely from my Apex if we had/have a power outage, and worst case, would have to get my son over and walk him through on the phone with what to do with the battery back-ups.
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