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A number of people in Buffalo, NY, recently lost power for several days due to a blizzard. The city had to clear snow with front-end loaders and dump trucks, wh
by SAI_Peregrinus 4y ago
A number of people in Buffalo, NY, recently lost power for several days due to a blizzard. The city had to clear snow with front-end loaders and dump trucks, which took about 4 days. Without power, many apartments had no heat (no way to run a blower motor for air heat, electronic control of the boiler, heat pump, or other electric-dependent heating). A number of people were able to survive by heating pots of water on gas stoves and letting it sit to get a bit of heat. Not the use of gas you want to have, but invaluable if it's all you've got!
- diordiderot 4y agoYeab unfortunately liquid hydrocarbons are the only way to store large volumes of energy in the 21st century. I bet there would be a lot of money in inventing some other means.
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoLess about storage, and more a convenient coincidence that transferring gas via underground pipeline is substantially safer than above-ground pipeline, and thus gas companies pay the extra to bury the lines. Electric can be run underground, but the danger of above-ground lines isn't nearly as high as gas would be so electric companies (at least in this area) run overhead lines which are vulnerable to storm damage.
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoHaving some camping sized cooking gear in your emergency bag seems like a good precaution if you have cold winters. Does seem like the apartment communities could be doing more to take care of their residents during storms though.