TEN Days of POWER OUTAGES!

A bunch of crazy power outages between 12/19/17 and 12/29/17. Watch to learn what we did to keep the lights on and stay warm in the snow.

Exit Sign & Emergency Lights featured in video:

Dual-Lite EVCURW Emergency Light
Dual-Lite EV4DI Exit Sign Combo
Best Lighting R2 Emergency Light
Utilitech CMG-103 Emergency Light

Grant (2nd Channel):

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12/29/2020 UPDATE

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[iranoutofusernames_]

Bro, you perfectly timed the on and off. When you said it, you did magic. Lights flickered inside the house! Of you said it even more, it would be satisfying.

Nobody is talking about that...

[notyoung]

If your lights are doing the "dance of death", so are your appliances. First turn off the main breaker to protect everything from those surges. Then watch outside lights (streetlight, neighbor's houses) for the power to become stable.

We've experienced enough brief and day-long power outages to now keep flashlights in every room and have UPS units on all the electronics.

For our most recent 12 hour outage (caused by 7"+ of snow), I used the solar generator I've been assembling over the past year. Still need a gas generator for central heat but the 540AH battery bank can keep fridge, a few lights, internet, etc going for about 24 hours. If it's not too cold, the gas logs in the fireplace can keep about half the main level of the house comfortable.

[Rare_thunder]

This is one of one of my favorite videos because it’s deal with weather and electrical outages.

[Undercoverelevator-sn]

It's a good thing you like emergency lights!

[fastcsx]

Wow the lights flickering on and off would have scared me a little and I’m glad you got the power back on and great video

[loganjoy-koer]

all of that flickering could be a sign of big problems at the generation side not being able to supply stable electricity, which could be caused by shorts from fallen trees due to snow.

[VOLTRONDEFENDER]

That light flickering is almost like power going out during a earthquake

[tonyeichensehr]

What I can guarantee was happening was either at your main/sub power station snow piled on lines causing shorts, or a tree was on the line causing it to ark

[axium]

i remember my power outage i didnt know how important it was till its gone

[andrewc]

Whenever I think that Florida has the worst weather, I just watch videos like this.

[stevendamavandi]

1:12 Honey, The House Is Having A Rave Again.

[OkenWS]

That arcing/brownout thing is awful. I once had it during a briefing in an apocalyptic lightning storm at an RAF station in Yorkshire. Lights went off, then every time the OIC tried to speak, the briefing room speaker system would start pouring out deafening 50Hz hum. Not good - it's quite intimidating when the systems we rely on and know for total stability go wrong. Respect for linemen and electricians.

[seanjuth]

I think your parents love the emergency lights

[Thunderbolt]

This has to be my favorite video you’ve made. It was also one of the first ones I watched.

[american]

1:19 if this were to happen to me, I would’ve just cut main power to prevent possible power surges.

[Starlight_Emergency_Light]

I at least watched this video 100 times! My power longest been out for me was the 2013 Ice Storm was out for 4 days! In December! Now I have Emergency lights that came handy in 2 power outages I got a video of!

[timothyurquidi]

Same thing happened in Massachusetts! A big storm came through and transformers exploded and caused a 7 day power outage! Happened on October 30th 2011 right around say 2 pm eastern time I believe! And it was a mess everywhere!

[r.a.]

Perfect music that relates to situation, begins when you show the stove.

[chronically.advocating]

That flickering and flashing, if someone hasn't already mentioned it, is phase to phase arcing on the primaries. More often than not phase to ground will trip a cutout or open a recloser due to the load which is when the power completely goes out. I'm surprised with that much arcing on the primaries that at some point you didn't have a voltage sag where you lose a phase. Now those are very interesting, and admittedly a little creepy. Don't believe me? Just try running your microwave during a voltage sag (known in the US lay terms as a brownout due to the lowered voltage causing incandescent lights to glow glow more of a brown being starved for voltage). Okay one other thing. You never want to use pine, pine needles or pine sap in a wood burning fireplace. The residues those put off are an excellent way to start a chimney fire, and the last thing you want is to have no power AND have your house burn down.

[Bendygamer]

I spent a week and a half home alone without power from Hurricane Laura and my brothers were at their friends house and my stepdad was at Texas and my mom was at work, leaving me in the dark.