That generator cant be fixed. I spent 2 hours beating on it with a 10 pound sledge hammer . I would have gone beating longer but my wife came screaming ok ok it's dead.
No joke,

Is that the new one?

Broke at about 430, walked into hardware store at 455, they locked door while I was swiping the credit card
$1,030,00
10 kw, tri fuel
If this one breaks I swear I'm putting 3 rounds from a 7 mag thru the block
Something is trying to beat me but whatever it is doesn't know me well.
Note to buzzy, I'll never quit my friend, I will never ever quit
So buzzy I forgot to tell you about my first swimming adventure since I had my left foot cut off
My wife rescued me in the bayou after 2 hours of swimming , I just kept going in circles and could get back to the bank

No mr dobbins, the new one is humming but the one I killed was also New. Less than 200 hours on it.

Don't know what load you are pulling but could be trying to pull too much. The motor or generator part quit on you? Some have a safety feature we called a Murphy switch. It was made so if got too hot or lost oil pressure it would shut down. That is addition to the regular breakers. Some the rating they print on them is the starting load it will pull which is lower then what it can do continuously.

How long do you think it will be , till they get everything cleaned up, and utilities restored ?

I had a generator I bought for katrina, used it numerous storms, this past may we had a hurricaine come thru here, that gen began acting up so I bought a new 6800 kw generac, that's the one that blew up tonight. It had less than 200 hours on it. Likely still under warranty but I cant bring it back now.
On a side note that's really not important now, we were still cleaning up and repairing stuff from the hurricaine that hit me in may.
The storm in may the eye came right over me. During the eye the sun shines, calm as could be .35 minutes later the devil came back with a vengeance from the opposite direction

Bud ,
Do you have water in the faucet? Would a gravity water filter purifier help i can order one and send it usps to? Or anything else? Mountain house meals?

Canvasback, they saying 4 to 6 weeks but my home town will take generations before the destruction here is repaired, I was actually one of the fortunate, many people here, many I have know all my life, many I worked beside in the commercial shrimping industry have lost everything, when those boys coming to help me get down here they will see houses blown up and shrimping boats, pleasure boats, oil field boat bottom up all along bayou lafourche. I have a hugh black oak in my front yard, plantation oak, hugh, today it looks like a skeleton of a tree. It will never mezmorize of its beauty as it did ever again

Water was trickling from faucet but brown, we lived on mountain house meals first three days until national gaurd began handing out mre. My wife treated us good tonight after the day I had, she thought I needed a good meal, we ate boiled shrimp, potatos and corn on the cob we had in freezer
I'm cooking on a burner I have on my grill or a jet boil
Heres a crazy thing, that barbecue grill I'm cooking on , big stainless steel grill, we had to go get it in the next street, wind took it from under my carport and tossed it about 150 feet. Heck i had an outdoor big frig, it's still sitting in a yard on the next street 300 feet from here.
One of the big shrimp boats here was tied. Right at the top of my street it's s
Now piled up against the bridge we cross lafourche half a mile away
100 foot trawlers are not in the bayou anymore, hundreds of feet on dry marsh land away from water now, we had 14 or 15 feet of storm surge

Bud is there a fairly clean water source that you have access too. If you do the filter could work , I'll order one if you want one . Or anything else i can.

We getting bottled water from gaurd and church groups bringing trucks in
9 days in, still no place to buy food
One hardware store opened under gen power, our pharmacy opened, our hospital bad damage, not open
All gas station pumps were torn from place by wind, some still have pumps standing but building blown up
It's all alot to soak in and accept when you see the distruction
Only one word discribes it
Catistrophic

I'm trying to load pics around my house, it wont load, I have an inground pool with a big cabana, my pool is destroyed even cement walking area around the pool colasped. Something hit cabana and tried cutting it in half. I think it's a part of the roof from the house that exploded next to me. 30 x 30 awning behind my house over my back door, after 9 days of looking we still have not found any sign of it. Just down the bayou from me there are street with 10 to 15 homes, every single home on entire street is a pile of rubble. You cant explain it to someone. you need to see this with your own eyes to understand and then your brain still wont understand it

14 houses gone, one street

Imagine a tornado 75 miles wide

WOW!

Still lay'in for you all...

It looks like it will stay south of you and on into Florida.

I heard something about that, no news here, no tv, just radio in truck but the luck we have been having wouldn't surprise me if that thing takes a left turn south of bayou lafourche
Darla reminded me it was last september we had the hurricaine that eye came over us but we did have another storm smack us this past may also
Just heard they have LA 1 blocked where to get off 90 to come down here, entergy moving equipment and replacing poles so you have to take 308 south
Looks like better cell service this morning so far
They announced a number last night, 38000 poles need to be replaced. That's alot or power poles

There's a cold front coming down that will keep it off of you, if it goes like they say. You may get a bit of relief from the 90 degree days.