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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
You might feel differently if it was 125 degree heat index, or zero degree ice storm.
I hate these threads. Every one of them seems to send me on a hunt for a generator. It grows from a small Honda, to a whole house unit.
My back yard fence neighbor paid 12 grand for a natural gas powered unit. After 10 years it had actually been needed for 12 minutes total, so the math was easy, a grand per minute, kinda pricey.
In the 25 years we have lived here, we have never been without power for long enough to be a real issue. We did have to eat ice cream for breakfast one spring, about 20 years ago when the power was out overnight, and the freezer was starting to defrost. Just after we ate the ice cream, the power came back on.
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That’s the position that I’m in. When I first moved in, we had a very reliable grid and it started going downhill, but even if I lost everything in my fridge, I was out maybe $30 depending on my last shopping trip.
I do have a sump pump that will overflow in less than an hour during wet seasons if the pump fails. I upgraded it to a battery backup model and bought a $500 generator that will run my fridge, sump and a few small items too.
They recently trimmed a bunch of trees and maybe replaced some wires, so we should have less outages again.
What sucks is that it appears that whatever supplies my internet uses the same section of grid, so even if I power my router, I still have no internet.
Having a whole house generator would be sweet, but just isn’t as big of a problem versus the cost.