[Leica] Birds week 6

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Good to see that everything is generally fine.

We face these power problems pretty much on a yearly basis because of
hurricanes. All of us have inverters/generators that can see us through a
minimum of 48 hours of a power cut. No air conditioning, but pretty much
everything else, including cable/DTH TV and the Internet would work. Our
cooking is on LPG cylinders, so that is not an issue. The electricity
actually gets shut off by the operators during the peak of the hurricanes
for 12-18 hours so that no untoward deaths take place because stuff like
trees falling on power lines and causing them to snap is certain! Of
course, our houses are made of concrete, so they withstand nature's fury
reasonably well.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:45 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> We're just fine.  Only lost electricity for 26 hours.  Not our first rodeo
> so had a fireplace, gas burners and solar panels to charge devices.  I will
> be adding batteries to our solar array so that we can disconnect from the
> grid and use our solar for power.  Safety reason for utilities the solar
> shuts off when the grid goes down.  With batteries you add a circuit that
> disconnects from the grid so you can have electricity; just like Sonny's
> generator.
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:48 AM RicCarter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
>
> > You doing okay?
> >
> > ric
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Feb 18, 2021, at 10:47 AM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Good to see something that wasn't a block of ice.
> >
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