[jyl]

I looked up watt draw of stuff like gas furnance blower, hot water heater blower - around 500 w typical. So maybe a Honda 2200 watt generator would be enough, to keep just the key things running. I read that genset runs for 8 hours on 1 gal gasoline. I’d only have to store 5-10 gallons. A power outage longer than 72 hours is very unusual here. The longest I’ve experienced in 16 years of living here was power out for 3 days
and cable internet for a week. (We moved into a hotel.) I’ve never been motivated to get any sort of genset. And to be honest, I still might not. But it’s interesting to think about.