[GH85Carrera]

Baz, I am right there with your way of thinking.

Every generator thread gets me wanting one. Then I realize how much the whole house units cost, and my interest shifts to a Honda inverter unit. Then I get to wondering where do I want to store it, and how much gasoline do I keep on hand and I get lazy and just forget abut it.

My back fence neighbor used to work for the local electric utility. He put in a 12 grand generator that automatically starts and tests itself regularly. He has had it for 9 years so far and he has used it for 18 minutes of backup power. That is some really expensive power.

We don't worry about hurricanes or tsunamis in Oklahoma. The biggest baddest tornadoes came through central Oklahoma. One F5 had 300+ MPH winds and leveled a few hundred feet wide paths of utter destruction. Another one was 2.5 miles wide and moving at nearly 100 MPH across the ground. Neither even made the light flicker in my part of town. The worst damaged areas were just a 1/4 of a mile from full civilization with hospitals and restaurants and gas stations everywhere. So nothing at all like the recent hurricanes and flooding where entire areas are in the dark.

If I happen upon a great deal for a Honda generator, I may buy one, but it is low on my list of to do.