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not a bad idear. Actually I might suggest to the strata council to include an instruction sheet with the next meeting minutes.

I will have to look again, the gates we have are aluminium tube stuff, chain driven opener, toothed pulleys.

Checked the parkade garage doors, they have a handle in the chain that looks like it would be for manual raising and lowering, might be a tad heavy though.

our parkade garage doors are the only way to get a vehicle out, there are people doors out but in an outage I guess ramming your way out is about the only way.I havent noticed a disconnect gizmo on them.

did some digging cuz I wasnt sure how inverters worked etc. This info ONE and TWO might help anyone else who arent up to speed. :)

I think the low wattage genny's are suspect on continuous, no brown out power for tight electric gear like computers and such, the higher the power rating the less likely to bugger up the tech gear.

a hurricane party... cool, havent heard tale of such a beast here. are you eating up big in expectation of the storm? one would think (if one was me) that eatingt all the stores would be counter-productive to long term disaster survival.

it might. its fun to start disaster recovery mode though, makes life exciting and adventure like. :)

once my little deep freeze dies it aint gonna last a few days, thats for sure. throw a sleeping bag over it and start cooking the chicken! or lose a couple hundred bucks worth (between the fridge, freezer and the little deep freezer) of meat and the like.

the only serious major disaster we would face around here is earthquake. Hurricanes like what you get dont happen up here. My fear is earthquake and the lack of access to my provisions due to structure failure.

I would be limited to old school here. my BBQ for cooking, a windup flashlight, a windup radio, a few battery operated flashlights and a hand pump water filter for a real emerg. enough canned food and beverages to last at least a week or more. An inverter really wouldnt help me I dont think as...

two batteries? can you wire them in series or parallel to keep the cycle stronger or the power duration longer? I know a buddy had two batteries in his old ford diesel that I constantly had to pull with my geo tracker to bump start it.... (it was a standard and didnt seem to charge either...

and a hint o wind... we dont lose power here in the city, at least not in the last 6 years. My parents lose it usually a few times a year, for a few hours to a few days. Pops has considered getting a generator but nothing serious, they just fire up a few candles and the coleman stove or bbq. if...