good morning!

Local weather guy said 114mph is the highest gust so far…..

Pellet grill blew over & gas grill was blowing across the deck, almost blew my dumb ass over struggling to straighten it up & brace them against each other

Never had that happen before

Lots of power outages & downed trees from what I gather, at least we have power so I’m happy

I’m naive to think- maybe you ‘need’ a generator more than another stove? (You probably have a generator. Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t have one yet. My summer project is to take care of that.)

This winter, on a coldest day, my power flickered for- probably less than a second- and I said to myself, “Self, you’re a fool not to have a generator. Get one.”

My Dad converted the fireplace to a gas log. It never worked well with wood- hard to get the flue to draw without smoking up the house, sucking a bunch of warm air out while the fire was dying… so he converted it. It doesn’t work, so I’m having the furnace people look at it this summer to see if it can be corrected. (I suspect that it ‘worked’ but Dad had a couple other concerns- long story- and I wonder if I simply replace the thermostat he removed, turn on the gas, and light a pilot, it will be fine. I think if I had gas but no electricity, it would be a backup, once checked over and working?