5:37am EST update:
Electricity has been off for just under 32 hours at this point. We spent the first 20+ without a generator, but I had to do something to keep the kids warm. This generator has a one gallon tank and supposedly runs for four hours on each tank depending on what you are running on it. I filled it up at the gas station prior to starting it, then went out and got two gallons in my can.
I have been trying to refill every three and a half hours so I never run it dry, but it seems to be lasting more than four hours. I topped it off at 9:15pm; 1am; and 5am. The 5am pour was just going to be whatever I could add so I could make a fuel run, but it topped off the generator as I had near drops coming out of the can. I drove to the gas station and got an additional two gallons, which should last me until tonight if it goes the same as the first 11 hours.
It is 16° outside and the ice is still everywhere. It is holding at 40° inside my house, but I am dripping water just in case, as well as running the kitchen sink full blast while I get my layers on to refill the generator. It is between 60° and 62° in our bedroom where we are running the electric heater and all five of us are bunkered. I am taking temps of areas with my infrared thermometer I use for cooking, and piling blankets, towels, or even canvas laundry baskets with clean laundry we had not put up to use as barriers were cold may be coming in. All that to get us above 60°.
We have a second cord from the generator to charge phones; work laptops; and battery pack USB chargers. At some point we want to move the generator to another location outdoors and plug in our tankless water heater for hot showers. When we do that, we will lose the heater. I’ll have to do some testing to see if I can get the generator in a location where extension cords can reach our second story bedroom and the water heater in the basement that is on the opposite end of the house to have one room heated and hot water at the same time. I feel like that is a waste of an outlet though as the water heater is tankless and the water will be hot instantaneously whenever it is plugged in.
I have had 1:45 minutes of sleep spread out over two sessions. I left my contact case in the 4Runner and I am not going back out to get it. I would rather just try and stay up at this point as I am not supposed to sleep in them.
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