Anyone Sleep Through Power Outage

We have solar panels with backup batteries now, but before that I remember waking up with the power off a few times. Slept for at least a couple of hours with the power out, and while it was a little more work to breathe, it was fine. No problem.

SleepGeek wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:27 pm

But I have to wonder just how one could manage to put any generator away packed so that it would start a fire? Maybe blankets on top of the muffler? idk

Janknitz wrote: ↑

Mon May 30, 2022 7:58 pm

Down the street last year a neighbor dutifully ran his generator for maintenance, and then put it away in a shed. It was still hot. It caught the shed on fire, burned down half of his house and his neighbor's garage.

I don't think it was that. It was a wooden type of lean to shed on their side yard, up against the house. If the generator was too hot in a small wooden structure, I can see how it would happen. Possibly there was some combustible material there, too. Maybe the gas can.

We are almost the only ones in our neighborhood without a generator. The noise and fumes when we have planned outages is significant. Everyone has them running in their backyards which is the bedroom side of our house, and these outages happen in the hottest weather, so we sleep with windows open. It really bothers my asthma, and sometimes we have smoke in the air, too. We try to get by with an ice chest, solar powered lanterns, and my little battery powered generator. It's misery.