That's just to fuel the justifcation for Muskrat Falls (like the climate change tv ads) likely than any real problem? Although the power outage last winter in the middle of a snowstorm when Holyrood went tits up was a bit of an inconvenience to be sure.

We probably should have a generator, given that we are on well water & that the hot water radiation only needs power to the furnace and pump to heat the house. But in 8 years we've never had an outage longer than 12 hrs so it's not felt like an investment we needed to make. I'm sure that if the power does go out for an extended period in the winter, we'll be reconsidering!

Oh, I didn't take it that way. I'd be interested to know if the dryer socket method works and if there's any catch. MikeUK would likely know.

Seems it works going by a couple of youtube videos I just watched but some of the comments at the bottom of the videos makes it seem that it may be dangerous as well as nullifying your house insurance if it goes wrong . From what I can see your way with the switch over panel looks like the way to go

Pity as my dryer hook-up is on the garage wall so it would have been an inexpensive way to do it for me

One of the guys I was speaking to used to work with NL power and the fact that he is tighter than tight with cash but just forked out $1000 for a generator got me thinking about it

I find that quite amusing seeing as how Orly has been here for only a couple of years and lives nowhere near Ottineau - yet you berate another poster for being a 'newb' and therefore obviously (in your opinion) can't have any idea what is the 'norm' when they have lived there for 9 years, because they disagree with you.

Yawn.

Had a read on this. The crux of the difference between using the main breaker and a transfer switch seems to be that the breaker doesn't disconnect the neutral wire while the transfer switch does. This means that the dryer socket method sends power out of the house down the neutral wire. This is hazardous for anyone working on the line, they may check for it, trace it and take some sort of action against the householder. They may not check and be electrified. Of course, it's a slight chance that any of this may happen but I'm reassured that there's good reason to do this the right way.

More amusingly, I just checked the data back to 1990, which was as far as I could be bothered to go. No November day since then has seen the amount of snow we just had. Precious few Novembers have in total seen what we just had.

Captain Canada's special clearance will provide him with access to data you can't dream of understanding. No doubt the dawn of time had a dump of snow immeasurable by man that he recalls clearing by hand while chewing 6" nails to ensure his iron intake was adequate.

Note: Captain Canada is a fictional character and bears no resemblance to any individual living or deceased.

Souvy....you actually went to that length? Come on now bruv'er

Oh...I didn't berate you, you and I have our ding dongs every now and then, I have no hidden agenda to go on a manhunt with you

Lengths? It took about five minutes.

Sorry to interject, but I just wanted to reiterate Oakvillian's comment below. You might not be aware, but's it's an unspoken rule on BE that one doesn't bring a member's family into a conversation on BE. The ins and outs of someones family live isn't forum fodder. Thanks

Ok sorry to interrupt .... as you were.

And in case you are interested we don't have any snow where I am. I did however have to pop a cardigan on this morning when I walked the dog.

Sue...

PM sent...I hear what you are saying, and like I told the member, he has a choice to ignore me (I highly encourage him to), unless of course there is more to it than meets the eye?

Thanks

He shouldn't have to.

I would remind you of site rule 15:
Thank you.

Our 4th winter and the first time we have that much snow that early and just spoke to the neighbours who are Canadian and have been living out here for 30 odd years and she said she can only remember a hand full of times where they had that much snow before December.

Took us 2h this morning to do the bare minimum with the snow blower and shovel. On the fun side, kids and I built an snow/ice slide in the back garden and we have our own Winterlude now

We have to get the generator and the gen link next year. It's bloody expensive. We were thinking of just running a cable to hook the appliances up but realised that the furnace wouldn't be working. So we'll have to fork out the $1300 to get it fixed next year. Still better than a generator that switches on automatically $6000+