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Our power finally came back on last night at 8:00 so three days without power ☹️ . My Honda generator ran fantastic with no issues . During daytime hours we would run it three hours and then off for three hours . This worked fine for fridge and freezer and we lost no food .

I would time the on/off cycle so I turned it on around 9:00 at night and I let it run through the night and turn it off in the morning . Running on " economy " mode it used less than a half a tank of fuel through the night run.

The worst part was not having water for flushing toilets . We are on a well and I currently have no way to power the well pump , I will change that in the future. I was able to fill 16 one gallon containers so we had flushing water .

In a perfect world I would have a 12 - 15 kw whole house generator , wired professionally and I would cycle circuit breakers as required to not overload the generator . Being in a rural setting my fuel choices are gasoline/diesel/LP . So I will work with those fuel choices to try and find a solution that makes sense .