Jan 16, 2020

Small Engine Express is offering Briggs & Stratton 12kW through 60kW standalone generators for 10% off from January 13, 2020 through January 31, 2020. A total of 49 different generator models are involved in the sale.The sale comes just in time for homeowners who live in areas of t…

Jan 02, 2020

The first winter storm of the decade wreaked havoc from the Midwest to the Northeast of the United States. Twenty million people are contending with winter storm advisories as the storm forces the closure of interstates and caused hundreds of crashes over the pre-new year weekend. One hundred th…

Oct 29, 2019

As of Monday, October 29, 2019, millions of Northern Californians are expected to get their power turned back on soon. However, many more may not get power back before new shutdowns occur due to devastating winds and wildfires.About 200,000 Californians are still remaining away under evacuation …

Oct 24, 2019

The CEO of PG&E told an emergency meeting of the California Public Utilities Commission that the blackouts it had initiated in Northern California to prevent fires could be the new normal for residents of the state.Bill Johnson told the Utilities Commission that it could take as long as 10 y…

Oct 10, 2019

You never know when the power to your home will go out. Usually it is the result of extreme weather. But we have learned in recent months that all sorts of things can happen that can cause power outages.In these blogs, we have discussed power outages due to mechanical failure of the grid, which r…

Sep 06, 2019

Image from https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Although weakening to a Category 1 hurricane, Dorian pounded the coast of North and South Carolina with sustained devastating 90-mph winds and flooding coastal towns on Friday morning, September 6.At 5:53 a.m. on Friday, the storm was 30 miles south-southwest o…

Sep 04, 2019

Image from https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Hurricane Dorian has proven to be a very difficult storm to track. As of 8:34 a.m. today, Wednesday, September 4, 2019, the storm is pushing north as it pounds the coast of central Florida and appears destined for the Carolinas.Initial forecasts had the …

Aug 29, 2019

Image from https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Puerto Rico is still struggling to recover from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, which struck in 2017, while Tropical Storm Dorian, the fourth named storm this hurricane season, approaches.As of about 1 p.m. East Coast Time on Wednesday, August 28, 2019, the tro…

Aug 15, 2019

Experts with AccuWeather and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) agree that the 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season will be near to slightly above normal. NOAA is predicting nine to 15 name storms while AccuWeather forecasts 12 to 14 storms.Named storms require wind speeds of 39…

Jul 17, 2019

A massive blackout affected as many as 70,000 customers of Con Edison in New York City on Saturday, July 13. A transformer fire is blamed for the outage.A fire at a substation at West 64th Street and West End Avenue caused the outage at 6:47 pm. The boundaries of the blackout were a 30-block str…

Jul 16, 2019

As of 1:30 pm eastern time on Monday, July 15, 2019, 40,478 customers of electric power utilities are still without power in Louisiana in the wake of Tropical Storm Barry. Barry as a Category 1 hurricane made landfall in the area of central Louisiana on Saturday morning, July 13, 2019. Many loca…

Jul 16, 2019

It’s not just severe weather, earthquakes, and floods that cause power outages around the U.S. and around the world. Mother Nature’s critters can also wreak havoc on the grid.Just last month in Tokyo, Japan a slug (of all things) caused a black out that affected the operation of the country’s hig…