Originally Posted by
Roberta
After several long bouts without power here, during an ice storm years ago we went 8 days in January with the same problems, no water, no heat, phone knocked out by a truck which caught the group of downed lines and a car who's transmission was fractured while trying to get the car out of the ice, we decided this year to go with a whole house generator that comes on automatically when power goes out. Of course now that we invested so much in this unit, we'll never have another power outage.
Don't say that Roberta. We have an all house generator, and so far in the 2 years we have had to use it 3 times. Once was for 2 1/2 days, others for about 24 hours a piece. And of course the occassional hour or so. But it has been money well spent. We had a power outage for four days when we first purchased the generator--purchased sitting in the driveway not installed!!!