Many Rural Communities Without Power
According to Scott St. John, spokesman for Norval Electric, several rural communities will have to spend Sunday night without power. Crews had been pulled off the repair work on Sunday afternoon due to extremely dangerous blizzard conditions.
The following areas will be without power tonight (Sunday):
Pines Recreation Area
North Hinsdale area
Wiota Bottom
North of Rose Hill
Opheim
Glentana
Richland
Peerless
Four Buttes
Larslan
According to St. John, at least 30 power poles were down with the probability of even more.
The problems were due to what started out as heavy frost on the line on Thursday, which caused some outages for the Opheim and Peerless areas. Then, ahead of the snow on Friday, freezing rain hit the area, compounding the problem.
St. John said that crews will head out at daylight tomorrow and extra contractor crews will be helping the expedite the repair process.
lacreek_cowboy said:Nice pictures. What size is that PTO generator and can you run it 540 or 1000 rpm? just wonderin I'm thinking of getting one.
We have 30kw 60 surge running 540. I have the 1000 shaft in and the 7400 idled back to 540. We have Dad's house with an electric furnace and a water heater, the daughetrs house with a water heater and our house with 2 water heaters 6 watering bowls ect. I plug the chore tractor is for a couple of hours in the morning and the stoves and a couple of TV on. It has been great but tonight snow was blowing in and it wasn't regulating properly. I covered the control box with a half barrel and stuck a blow dryer under to dry things out. Working better now.Justin said:lacreek_cowboy said:Nice pictures. What size is that PTO generator and can you run it 540 or 1000 rpm? just wonderin I'm thinking of getting one.
i would have to go look to be sure, but i think this generator is a 25K. and it is a 540.