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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
Posts: 48,537
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wdfifteen
What do you do with a generator for the 99.9 percent of the time it is not responding to a power outage?
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Aye, that is the rub. I've seen TV ads for natural gas powered units that naturally kick in when power goes. $pendy, so not worth it to me.
I just go back to basics. Have a hand pump on the well head for water, a wood shed full and a wood stove not needing power to provide warmth. Longest power outage here in 40 years has been 8 days. Cooked on a one burner camp stove or the propane BBQ. Roughing it life style, but we survived well. Neighbors began to love my hand pump.. 
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