Anybody living in a flood zone getting ready???

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by cprowler

That's what I picked up last summer, I've only had to use it once (knock on wood) for about a hour or so.

There is some minor assembly required including adding the oil to it.

Bill,

I was wondering about this generator. What does "up to 4000 surge/peak watts" mean? I see it says "peak" on the box but it says "surge" on the costco website.

[cprowler]

Originally Posted by christyf5

Bill,

I was wondering about this generator. What does "up to 4000 surge/peak watts" mean? I see it says "peak" on the box but it says "surge" on the costco website.

From what I understand some if not all of the large electrical motors like on the larger pumps and fans during start up will use 125% of the normal load for a few seconds to get started and then go back down to the normal wattage.

At least that’s my limited understanding of it.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by cprowler

From what I understand some if not all of the large electrical motors like on the larger pumps and fans during start up will use 125% of the normal load for a few seconds to get started and then go back down to the normal wattage.

At least that’s my limited understanding of it.

Oh, ok thanks

[danny zubot]

Just tagging along.

No danger of flooding where I'm at but I have noticed that the mountains still contain a abnormally large amount of snow in them. Some look completely white, which is strange for this time of year. This could mean a repeat of 2005 if the snow melts too quickly. Any one living along the rivers in Calgary should be looking at getting prepared.

[CLINT]

This year is going to be crazy.Everything about this year is shaping up to make for a big mess.I run a tugboat on the fraser river and so far we have seen very little spring runoff.Nights are still staying cold in some places and this isn't helping at all.Now we are going to get a big spell of hot weather thats going to jump water levels quite fast.A couple guys I work with that live on the river have taken a lot of stuff to storage because they figure this is the year they lose there house.Kinda scary when you don't know if your house is going to be floating down the fraser and it not a floating home.In the past they have had water in there yard and the snowpack hasn't been as big and tempatures have come up a lot slower but thats not the case this year.I hope it doesn't get to bad or I'll be sitting at home which doesnt pay the bills and makes puting more stuff in the tank even harder.

[Skimmerking]

Ya we have a bunch of army guy on Base that are on 24 hours to move up to B.C if something happens. I'm not going to be going due to training for Afghanistan.... I know that working on flood water is very hard on the body. When I work with our unit in the Winnipeg flood they ended up forgetting about us and not gettign us food. SOme guy with a boat ended up bringing in Pizza and Dounuts to us along with water. That was a big morale boost........ considering that we didnt have any food for 2 days due to a certain part of the rive rwas getting very dangerous. But hey send in the Army guys

I hope everyone in the flood area will be safe and take care... good luck

[fishmaster]

Originally Posted by CLINT

This year is going to be crazy.Everything about this year is shaping up to make for a big mess.I run a tugboat on the fraser river and so far we have seen very little spring runoff.Nights are still staying cold in some places and this isn't helping at all.Now we are going to get a big spell of hot weather thats going to jump water levels quite fast.A couple guys I work with that live on the river have taken a lot of stuff to storage because they figure this is the year they lose there house.Kinda scary when you don't know if your house is going to be floating down the fraser and it not a floating home.In the past they have had water in there yard and the snowpack hasn't been as big and tempatures have come up a lot slower but thats not the case this year.I hope it doesn't get to bad or I'll be sitting at home which doesnt pay the bills and makes puting more stuff in the tank even harder.

Don't worry about a short term loss of work, you will be busy for the next year trying to recover all of the lost booms, barges, houses, boats,ect....that go floating into Georgia Straight. Oh, and did I mention the major construction boom that will take place when the whole valley rebuilds after the flood. It's sad that their struggling to build up the dyke systems now when the possibility of flooding has been very high for several months now, even under normal melting conditions. Now that the melt has been delayed, flooding is almost certain in allot of areas. They waited to the last minute to work on the dyke systems that have needed upgrading for years. I've only heard of a few cities doing anything, New West being one of them. What else is being done?
Oh well, I wish everyone the best, it will effect everyone in some ways, road closures ect...And it won't just be the Fraser, look for floods & land slides ect... anywhere there's a river. Over here on the Rock, we were still getting snow on the mountains last week. If it were me (living in a flood plain), I would be taking this very seriously and moving my valuables to higher ground. I'd be sand bagging my house in and buying a couple of trash pumps to move water out. I'd also buy a generator and stock pile lots of fuel, food and water.
Hopefully things don't get to crazy, I guess we'll see........
Shaun.

[CLINT]

well I have to say that doesn't help me sleep.The fact that place are still getting even cold weather is very bad for us let alone snow still falling.Oh well I'm payed by the hour so guess I'll hope they keep us there every hour they can.Clint

[fishmaster]

Originally Posted by CLINT

well I have to say that doesn't help me sleep.The fact that place are still getting even cold weather is very bad for us let alone snow still falling.Oh well I'm payed by the hour so guess I'll hope they keep us there every hour they can.Clint

Think on the bright side, at least you live on high ground!