RED ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!! CATEGORY 5

Now taking early landfall projection bets (to the state). Hopefully this one will curve out towards the open north Atlantic. But it's unusual to see them this well organized this early off the African continent, however, they think upper level winds will be inclined to tear it apart as it moves further westward? We'll see.

National Hurricane Center

 

I bet there is a baby boom in Florida in 9 months.

 

Plus that Petro may have been full by the time he shut down. Especially given the circumstances with the impending arrival of Irma. Every truck driver within Atlanta may have been shut down there.

 

To be fair, as was noted earlier, having whole-building HVAC system on generator backup is rarely feasible but at least you can power critical machines and systems, and some fans to keep air circulating through.

 

Well somebody's coming out ahead.

 

Probably not a good week to go to Cabo


And don't look now but Jose may be done screwing around and is now going to play a game of "where he stops, nobody knows" with the upper east coast people. Oughta be some good surfing off of Hatteras in the coming days

 

16kW might be a bit much for a standard central air unit.

 

Power Consumption for Trane System

Quoted from post #8 in the thread--

Generator
Start up amps for an inductive motor is usually 7-8 times rated. I live in Tampa and most of the homes that have back-up generators are usually 12-17.5kw and includes using 1 ac usually calculated for 2.5-3 tons.