Southern California residents are aware of the unique “seasons” we experience here- June gloom, fire season, Santa Ana winds– but in recent years the timelines for these weather events are getting stretched or occurring at altogether surprising times. Take the Santa Anas, an annual wind evoking plenty of regional folklore and allergies galore, that typically start in October but whose season […]
Duthie Power Services Carries Champion Tri-Fuel Portable Generators
Duthie Power Services now has in stock 10kW Champion Tri-Fuel Portable Generators, offering Southern California homeowners a range of options for home generators. Duthie Power has over fifty-five years in the generator industry, providing businesses and property managers everything from brand new industrial generator installation to regular maintenance and genset services. The expansion into residential generators has been a success for a […]
A Generator for Christmas? Giving Peace of Mind to Your Loved Ones
On the outside, a generator gift doesn’t seem like the most romantic under-the-holly present ever. (Although some do look surprisingly sleek!) But in the darkest, coldest time of year (not to mention the wettest and dreariest), a generator means your loved ones can count on warmth and light. (As Duthie team member Korry discovered when a blizzard tore through her parents’ mountain […]
Thanksgiving Power Outage? 5 Ways to Have a Mouth-Watering Turkey Dinner Without Power
Finally, 2020 is almost over! It’s time to celebrate making it through this wild year, and for most of us that means a delightful roast turkey Thanksgiving dinner. Unless (as is all too common in California) the power goes out. Then it’s all too easy for a joyous day to morph into a wild scramble of trying to save the food. And […]
What We Did For Thanksgiving – During a 3-Day Power Outage
By Korry Talbott, Marketing Associate for Duthie Power This is what Lake Arrowhead usually looks like. So when I drove to my parent’s mountain cottage in Running Springs, I couldn’t wait to celebrate a sunlit Thanksgiving among the same towering pine forests, blue skies, and stunning mountain views we’d enjoyed for years. But this Thanksgiving was different. Really different. Instead of basking […]
What Can We Learn from NYC’s 2 Power Outages?
What’s worse than a blackout shutting down the largest city in America during a sizzling heat wave? Another blackout shutting down the largest city in America, during the same heat wave, barely one week after the first outage. Just ask New Yorkers — it happened to them on July 13th and 21st, 2019. Take 1: The Manhattan Blackout of July 13, 2019 […]