The part of the family still awake (the kids are asleep) in the other room with their mother and my wife is reading in her room. So, it's 56 degrees. However, it looks like it's going to peak in intensity (the rain and wind) by around 3 AM Pacific (something like that night) so we will have to see how the generator goes through the night.
Normally, I don't run a generator at night but this time there are 8 people here and i need to make sure all the food stays as fresh as possible in two refrigerators. So, we will have to see how it all works out tonight and somehow this thing drags on into Friday too now a local Weatherman says.
So far, outside of the carbon monoxide turning the generator off every 3 to 5 hours and then having to wait until it clears itself (around 15 minutes) everything has been running smoothly at least since around 7 am this morning and it's now 11 pm Christmas eve.
This likely is the funnest power blackout I have ever experienced mostly because it isn't that cold this time because the heaters don't work with the power out. So far, the ambient temperature inside still seems around 65 to 68 degrees because the temperatures have stayed pretty good at least during the day.
Maybe tomorrow night if we still don't have power I will build a fire in our fireplace. The coldest in the house it has ever gotten in a power outage was around 58 degrees that I measured with a hot tub thermometer a few years ago. AT this point it was too cold for us old folks so we got a Hotel room where they had power still.
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