Yeah, we have one, right now its out at the conservation club, where my fil used it for somethin'. When we lived in town and lost power it was for the fridge, since I too have boxes of candles and oil lamps and oil out the wazoo.
Now that we live out in the country the big issue with loss of power isn't so much lighting or cooling, but WATER. We have a well, the well pump is run on electricity, so when we lose power, we lose water. Before storms I routinely stockpile some drinking water, and we always keep the 300 gallon water tanks for the horses full anyway, but, if we lost power for several days, we are in big trouble.
I have been trying to talk hubby into an old fashioned hand pump, I assume that means we would have to have another point drilled, but our well perked quite high, and so it's reasonable to assume we have a lot of water under us. It shouldn't be too hard to hit some again.
Hubby's take on the whole thing is to find a way to use the genny to power the well. Which would work, in theory, for however long we have fuel. If we just turn on the genny to use the well pump and then shut it off when we are done getting water, it would probably last quite a while. But it still gives me the hereby-jeebys to rely on a genny for our water. I would just feel 100x better knowing that we have as much water as we can pump out of the ground ourselves!
BTW, those old cast iron hand pumps? Not so cheap!
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