All Things Coronavirus (Part 2)

[laylalex 7,285]

No shortages that I've seen anywhere, and in the past three days I have been to both my regular supermarket and a larger one that I'm not crazy about but they do stock stuff the smaller one I prefer doesn't occasionally. Plenty of everything, especially cleaning fluids. We are stocked up with everything we need so we're good to go when the inevitable real lockdown starts here. The one in place now really doesn't affect me -- restaurants closed 10pm-6am unless takeout or delivery or curbside; patio dining closing on Wednesday (I don't do this at all anyway); no non-essential retail 10pm-6am; non-essential travel between 10pm-6am discouraged. The last of these is really to stop the parties that are the source of spread in this county. If we could just evict all these IG influencers and TikTok stars who have pool parties in the Hills it would improve things. Not just them though -- it's all over the city, backyard parties and underground clubs, etc. Idiots.

 

If we get much higher over a 3 day period, we are going to actual 10pm-6am curfew with non-essential travel restricted. The step after that is stay at home again, like earlier in the year. 

[Dashinka 24,512]

38 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  How much did you pay roughly? I have been thinking about doing that.

 

  I have some bargaining room with my wife since she takes up all the closet space with shoes, so I might be able to swing the generator.

Around $10k including the switch all installed.  It will run the whole house 110, but is limited on the 220, it is 12kW.  I thought about going bigger, but that would have required a bigger gas meter, and I figure we can do without AC, or using the dryer or oven if the power is out.

[Dashinka 24,512]

40 minutes ago, Prizm123 said:

we have an expandable shoe rack. we just add more tiers as she gets shoes.

We have so many closets filled with shoes, I stopped counting how many pairs.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

25 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

We have so many closets filled with shoes, I stopped counting how many pairs.

 

  I always keep track of how many there are. It's the best leverage I have when I want to buy something for myself that I don't really need.

[Prizm123 1,086]

i am lucky, my wife tells me to get whatever i want

but she knows i dont usually get a lot of stuff

 

[fip & jim 452]

On 11/19/2020 at 10:34 PM, Ban Hammer said:

just because you do not know what their immigration journey is does not mean you need to pry into their private life. 

that was not using the report button - that was sending a message to site admin. 

if there is an issue that you feel needs to be addressed, use the report button

Did that too. Exactly the evasive response I expect from mods on here. Don't address the concerns. 

 

I wasn't prying. I am standing up for myself as an immigrant. Everyone is an immigrant in the US unless you're indigenous. Someone can be prejudice about me because they perceive I'm a certain nationality, but I can't challenge that? Understood. ECHO CHAMBER.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

A couple of years ago we had a power outage for a week. I bought a 9k powerhorse from Northen tool. Seems like I paid around 800. Spent a couple of hundred more to have a cord run to my service panel.

 

When the power goes off I have to go outside and manually flip the switch to prevent back feed and plug in the feeder cord.

 

It runs my house and my garage apt except for AC/Heat. Also dont try to run dryer.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

3 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

A couple of years ago we had a power outage for a week. I bought a 9k powerhorse from Northen tool. Seems like I paid around 800. Spent a couple of hundred more to have a cord run to my service panel.

 

When the power goes off I have to go outside and manually flip the switch to prevent back feed and plug in the feeder cord.

 

It runs my house and my garage apt except for AC/Heat. Also dont try to run dryer.

 

  That's more in my price range. Those are the ones you can just run an extension cord from in a pinch? 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

1 hour ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  That's more in my price range. Those are the ones you can just run an extension cord from in a pinch? 

You can. Mine has several 110 and I think 2 or 3 220s.

 

I had an electrician tie a cable into the breaker panel. Feeds the whole house 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

2 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

You can. Mine has several 110 and I think 2 or 3 220s.

 

I had an electrician tie a cable into the breaker panel. Feeds the whole house 

 

  I was thinking to just buy the generator for now and use it in a pinch, and then have an electrician do the install down the road. I'm avoiding having people over for work unless I have to. My dad had a furnace repair guy over last month and he said the guy was coughing and sneezing the whole time and they were worried about Covid for a couple of weeks after that.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

No shortages at my grocery store, except for turkeys under 3 pounds, Oh and no mexican coca-cola, also a tab bid short on pancetta, had to use regular bacon to make the green bean casserole, plenty of creme fraiche thank heavans.

 

[TBoneTX 45,305]

3 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

No shortages at my grocery store, except for turkeys under 3 pounds, Oh and no mexican coca-cola, also a tab bid short on pancetta, had to use regular bacon to make the green bean casserole, plenty of creme fraiche thank heavans.

Place is rapidly turnin' into a veritable Third World country.

[TBoneTX 45,305]

7 hours ago, Prizm123 said:

we both would love to just live in a cabin in the woods somewhere

Great place to interact with some reclusive, wild-eyed Trump supporters wonderin' who the interlopers are.

[Dashinka 24,512]

8 hours ago, fip & jim said:

Did that too. Exactly the evasive response I expect from mods on here. Don't address the concerns. 

 

I wasn't prying. I am standing up for myself as an immigrant. Everyone is an immigrant in the US unless you're indigenous. Someone can be prejudice about me because they perceive I'm a certain nationality, but I can't challenge that? Understood. ECHO CHAMBER.

Even the ancestors of the “indigenous” folks migrated to the Americas at some point if you believe the theories.

[Dashinka 24,512]

6 hours ago, CanAm1980 said:

No shortages at my grocery store, except for turkeys under 3 pounds, Oh and no mexican coca-cola, also a tab bid short on pancetta, had to use regular bacon to make the green bean casserole, plenty of creme fraiche thank heavans.

 

Yes, we definitely had a hard time finding a smaller turkey about a week ago.  We finally found one in one of the smaller grocery stores.  My wife makes her own mushroom sauce which is delicious, so we use that for the GBC.