When we move to Ohio 5 years ago, I bought a small Honda generator, essentially because I was worried about being without power if there was an ice storm. Well, not ice, be we are powerless due to a wind storm. Huge pine crashed into a complicated junction of power lines 2 blocks away. Power company says 2 days to get it sorted out.
This is not a hard wired generator, so I took the box going to to the furnace apart, spliced a heavy duty extension cord in. Ran another cord into the house, and made sure the internet router had power, and put a power strip in the kitchen for charging devices. Heat + Internet = dad is super hero.
Gotta celebrate the small victories.
