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| Paducah, Kentucky which is just across the Ohio River from Illinois. Predictions of Peak heat indexes between 103 and 106 Fahrenheit EVERY DAY for the next ten days. |
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The grid is going to be heavily loaded. Have a plan to beat the heat; curtains pulled, ceiling fans, damp tee-shirts, hydration, hanging out in the basement, floating in a pool or running through the sprinkler. A strategy we use at Casa ERJ is to have a hot-plate/crock-pot/rice cooker outside for cooking. I also have an LP hot-plate as a back-up in case the grid falters.
It might also be worth your while to double-check your power-outage plans. If you are going to run a generator, make sure you will not be breathing carbon-monoxide.
We will be fine in southern Michigan. It isn't going to get nearly as hot here as it is predicted to get in the corn-belt and through the south.
Hydration and Siestas my friend. If you're not pissing clear a several times a day you're NOT hydrated enough.
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Might be too late this time to secure a solar generator AND solar panels and thus have an emergency fan and lights if the grid Crapps out for a while.
But this isn't going to be the last grid challenging heat dome friend. Just a thought.
Also useful to have that dab or power for when a winter storm knocks down the grid a bit like my neighbor. He has an oil furnace but requires a little bit of electricity to run it and the blower. I loaned him one of my solar generators last Nor'easter and it kept a few lights on and his heat on.
At least I didn't have to worry that carbon monoxide was going to kill him as snow drifts were nasty that week.
We were driving in the local countryside on your Independence Day. Many fields of wheat had already been harvested. That's early for England, even the dry East.
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