[Z-man]

If the "shimmy a wire and release the door trick" doesn't work, I suggest you do the following:

1. Throw the main power circuit. You don't want to be doing this and all of a sudden your power comes back on!

2. Take apart the switch in your house that turns power on to your garage. Try to trace the wires and determine which ones are going to your garage.

3. Grab a car battery and connect the white wire to + and the black wire to -.

4. Hit the remote opener. The car battery should have enough power to get the door opened -- at least just enough for you to crawl under the door and pull the manual release.

Of course, if the only car battery you have available is the one that's in your car, that doesn't help a whole lot.

Also - the car battery is less likely to have sufficient power to kill you or do severe damage to your home's electrical system should something go wrong. A gererator, on the other hand, might.

-Z-man.