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Old 08-29-2015, 05:44 AM
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Up north we are use to power outages for up to 10 days, dead of winter or hot summer. We use a contractor grade generator. I can run most of the house including cable. Our lights are always on. We have emergency bag ready for on the fly evac just in case
Generators are really useful. We had a "whole house" generator before we moved to TV. It ran on natural gas. Unfortunately there are no gas lines south of 466A so we left it behind.
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