[Info-vax] We regret to inform (VMS uptime)

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<f9a8381b-6ffa-49a4-92c7-b1db37e0bdbb at p19g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
 Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> wrote:

> On Aug 25, 1:19 pm, Rob Brown <mylastn... at gmcl.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 at 08:47 -0700, Rich Jordan wrote:
> > > We're in the market for a generator at home.  Since we're in a
> > > townhouse with attached garage we cannot store gasoline (more than 1
> > > gallon), but I can have a propane BBQ and keep an extra 20 pound
> > > full bottle.  A diesel genset would be great since I could store
> > > fuel for it, but they're too heavy for my wife to handle and very
> > > expensive for properly built ones (not no-name chinese).
> >
> > No natural gas service available?  Generac, for example, makes
> > automatic, prepackaged, natural gas powered backup power for
> > residential use.  And natural gas won't go out the same time as your
> > electricity does.
> >
> NG won't go out right away, but around here thanks to EPA it will go
> down within a few days if the outage is widespread enough.  Not likely
> but possible.
> 
> Townhome.  HOA.  No external user-usable NG connection and no option
> to put a permanent genset in place with a fixed NG connection.  The
> tri-fuel unit is actually capable of running off NG, but that option
> is not possible where we're at.

I don't know if you have space for it, but my father had a large propane 
tank fitted in the garden to supply the house heating system.  It was 
something like 20 feet from the house (and he planted bushes around it 
to conceal it).  Access for refilling was up the side of the house, and 
the tankers had suitably long pipes.

-- 
Paul Sture