You know you live in Florida when...

[Cleo]

It is amazing how popular you get, even when your neighbors know that you are a pornographer, when you have a generator, a working satellite dish, a fridge that is making ice, hot water, and the only WiFi spot for miles.

Fifteen days of fueling a generator twice a day has left me thinking that there must be a better way. Looking to get two 55 gallon drums and running a gravity fed line to the generator for the next one. Plus I found out that you can get gas delivered wholesale if you buy 100 gallons at a time.

Hmmm, my house, as is most houses down here, is made out of concrete.

[Trev]

Would you need special insurance to store fuel in those quantities?


I ask because in my old job we used to store paraffin in 55 gallon containers and to please the insurance company they had to be plastic containers and stored in a unit with a water dump extinguisher system.

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by Trev

Would you need special insurance to store fuel in those quantities?

Probably are suppose to but I really don't know. Right now I have eighteen 5 gallon cans stored next to my fence as far away from my house as I can. Just as I was starting to run out of fuel and dreading waiting in line to buy more someone brought me a 55 gallon drum of fuel down from Tampa which got me through enough days that there wasn't any lines by the time I had to fill all my 5 gallon cans up again. When I finally did get power again I had only three 5 gallon cans still full so now I have a bunch of empty cans next to my fence.

I have a wealthy neighbor up the street who bought a 25kw whole house generator that runs off of propane but the generator is still sitting in his yard waiting for permits. He is installing, once the city lets him, an additional 500 gallon propane buried tank in additional to the 250 gallon buried tank that he already has. He is spending 20k doing all of this and that is if he every actually gets it finished.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Cleo

Probably are suppose to but I really don't know. Right now I have eighteen 5 gallon cans stored next to my fence as far away from my house as I can. Just as I was starting to run out of fuel and dreading waiting in line to buy more someone brought me a 55 gallon drum of fuel down from Tampa which got me through enough days that there wasn't any lines by the time I had to fill all my 5 gallon cans up again. When I finally did get power again I had only three 5 gallon cans still full so now I have a bunch of empty cans next to my fence.

I have a wealthy neighbor up the street who bought a 25kw whole house generator that runs off of propane but the generator is still sitting in his yard waiting for permits. He is installing, once the city lets him, an additional 500 gallon propane buried tank in additional to the 250 gallon buried tank that he already has. He is spending 20k doing all of this and that is if he every actually gets it finished.

20K doesn't seem so steep when you think of how many power outages you guys in Florida could have over the next 10 years. It's easy for me to say that sitting on the other side of the ocean and not needing to spend that kind of money though...

[Inabon]

Originally Posted by Cleo

It is amazing how popular you get, even when your neighbors know that you are a pornographer, when you have a generator, a working satellite dish, a fridge that is making ice, hot water, and the only WiFi spot for miles.

Fifteen days of fueling a generator twice a day has left me thinking that there must be a better way. Looking to get two 55 gallon drums and running a gravity fed line to the generator for the next one. Plus I found out that you can get gas delivered wholesale if you buy 100 gallons at a time.

Hmmm, my house, as is most houses down here, is made out of concrete.

if i was you i would think of a diesel generator.