The waste service has been abysmal. They aren't picking up bagged yard waste. The damn green bags just fall apart after a week in the open. If I have to rebag again, it's all going in the regular trash as they can F right off.

might as well fill up the green can, too

Shawdaddy said:

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I've seen some comments very similar to what i've been dealing with going on here - and some love for Westinghouse, but I have to disagree, lol.

I bought a Westinghouse 13k tri-fuel generator a month or so ago. Had the breaker lockout and power inlet installed by my panel, and a quick connect added to the gas meter (on the other side of the house). The unit will NOT run on natural gas. I had the plumber back out with his supervisor (last week - before the storm), who confirmed it is getting the required amount of gas per Westinghouse's specs (that you have to call to get, as they aren't published anywhere). Still wouldn't work. Thought the 3/4" 50' hose wasn't supplying enough btus (WC and PSI checked out), but Westinghouse wont even give you a btu requirement. Plumbed it directly into the meter behind a regulator at the specified WC through the 1/2" hose that came in the box - nope. Has a small engine repair guy out to check it - couldn't make it work.

Have been running on propane - and that works great, but a bottle is only lasting about 3 hours. Its getting real expensive, plus hard to source propane.

Have had a case open with Westinghouse since last week, well before the storm. Have called back everyday this week. They keep saying they will escalate my case and get back with me, but they don't.

I would avoid Westinghouse products. Also be careful relying on a long gas line.

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An update on this generator for anyone considering the Westinghouse:

Westinghouse got back to me about a week after we got power back and said the spark plug it shipped with may not be hot enough and to try a hotter plug. Swapped the plug and it runs fine on nat gas, even on the 50' 3/4" hose. My current setup is a 50' hose from the meter before any regulators, and then a regulator sized to the max specs of the generator on the end of the hose just before it plugs into the generator.

Very happy with the setup NOW, but it would have been great to have had it running before the storm. Part of that is on me for not giving myself enough time to get ready, but a big part is on Westinghouse for shipping a tri-fuel product that wouldn't work out of the box and took a LOT of time and back and forth to get it diagnosed. They did offer to pay for the new spark plug, lol (although they haven't yet).

Shawdaddy said:

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Shawdaddy said:

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I've seen some comments very similar to what i've been dealing with going on here - and some love for Westinghouse, but I have to disagree, lol.

I bought a Westinghouse 13k tri-fuel generator a month or so ago. Had the breaker lockout and power inlet installed by my panel, and a quick connect added to the gas meter (on the other side of the house). The unit will NOT run on natural gas. I had the plumber back out with his supervisor (last week - before the storm), who confirmed it is getting the required amount of gas per Westinghouse's specs (that you have to call to get, as they aren't published anywhere). Still wouldn't work. Thought the 3/4" 50' hose wasn't supplying enough btus (WC and PSI checked out), but Westinghouse wont even give you a btu requirement. Plumbed it directly into the meter behind a regulator at the specified WC through the 1/2" hose that came in the box - nope. Has a small engine repair guy out to check it - couldn't make it work.

Have been running on propane - and that works great, but a bottle is only lasting about 3 hours. Its getting real expensive, plus hard to source propane.

Have had a case open with Westinghouse since last week, well before the storm. Have called back everyday this week. They keep saying they will escalate my case and get back with me, but they don't.

I would avoid Westinghouse products. Also be careful relying on a long gas line.

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An update on this generator for anyone considering the Westinghouse:

Westinghouse got back to me about a week after we got power back and said the spark plug it shipped with may not be hot enough and to try a hotter plug. Swapped the plug and it runs fine on nat gas, even on the 50' 3/4" hose. My current setup is a 50' hose from the meter before any regulators, and then a regulator sized to the max specs of the generator on the end of the hose just before it plugs into the generator.

Very happy with the setup NOW, but it would have been great to have had it running before the storm. Part of that is on me for not giving myself enough time to get ready, but a big part is on Westinghouse for shipping a tri-fuel product that wouldn't work out of the box and took a LOT of time and back and forth to get it diagnosed. They did offer to pay for the new spark plug, lol (although they haven't yet).

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The spark plug issue is one that goes across all the portable generator brands unfortunately.

DuroMax is moving all of their new production to an NGK spark plug to address this.

NGK is the plug i had to switch to for nat gas operation.

It appears that they haven't even looked at the City Parks yet. I live near one that had several down in the derecho, and several more in Beryl and they have just left them.

It's been wet for almost the past 2-3 weeks so that's why mowing is delayed.

I don't know what's goin on with the waste pickup though.

Last Saturday, a 5 man crew operating a bucket truck came down our street in Timbergrove, cutting down dead branches. They hit my house while I was not home but I saw them at the neighbor's when I got home. It was definitely government work. First, I only saw one guy doing work. Second, why come by now, months after the derecho and weeks after the storm debris trucks have rolled through? Most homeowners have already paid crews to take down broken branches or done it themselves. There was no rhyme or reason to the branches cut, it wasn't limited to dead branches overhanging the road or sidewalk. They would cut a couple of branches from each lot before moving onto the next, often leaving be the most obvious branches needing attention. I guess they are paid by the number of streets "completed".

Which plug did you buy?

NGK BPR6ES

i try to follow the rules until the situation becomes untenable. which it has

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Furlock Bones said:

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The waste service has been abysmal. They aren't picking up bagged yard waste. The damn green bags just fall apart after a week in the open. If I have to rebag again, it's all going in the regular trash as they can F right off.

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y'all use bags? I just throw it directly in the trash bin.

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Cost of yard waste bags- $20/10ct
Cost of extra city can- $20/mo

Y'all have trash collection? I thought we were just supposed to throw all our trash into the middle of the street? (If you live outside the city limits, this does not apply to you.)

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Red Pear Realty said:

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Y'all have trash collection? I thought we were just supposed to throw all our trash into the middle of the street? (If you live outside the city limits, this does not apply to you.)

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I'm just imaging the scene from parks and rec where the guy is throwing his trash into the pit and waves at his neighbor also throwing his trash into the pit.

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Furlock Bones said:

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The waste service has been abysmal. They aren't picking up bagged yard waste. The damn green bags just fall apart after a week in the open. If I have to rebag again, it's all going in the regular trash as they can F right off.

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I waited for a few days to see if my bundled and bagged limbs and leaves would get picked up, and then started loading the bags in the trash 2-3 bags at a time when it was apparent that they weren't going to do it.

Big limbs, well, I live close enough to a main neighborhood street to where I took my limbs and piled them with the **** that the HOA crew had already organized...even did a little more preemptive limb trimming and put those there, too. Those limbs got picked up the next day.

Can't be bothered with subdivision limb pickup out here yet, and it's been a month.

Big trucks with cranes finally came and picked up debris on my street on Tuesday.

Earnesto teeing up.

https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#98L

Shouldn't be a problem. All the models show it curving back to the east.

Lived in PR for a while. A good rule of thumb is that by the time it gets to PR if it is level or above PR the Texas coast is safe. Obviously not always but that's how I watch these storms.

Cepe said:

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Lived in PR for a while. A good rule of thumb is that by the time it gets to PR if it is level or above PR the Texas coast is safe. Obviously not always but that's how I watch these storms.

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Yeah, mostly, but not always. Ike came in over the Turks and Caicos and across Florida on the way to Houston.

Robert C. Christian said:

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PJYoung said:

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🤨 pic.twitter.com/AzNsT9QhWm

— Nicholas Isabella (@NycStormChaser) August 9, 2024

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That s&it is so played out

CDUB98 said:

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Earnesto teeing up.

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Send it, I've broken her in and am ready!!!

Horrible affliction