Agree with what others have said, it is difficult to keep enough fuel on hand for some of the portable generators. I did not have a generator until I went through about a 12 day outage, and by the time I was without power for about 5 days I purchased one, but quickly found out I would burn 5 gallons of gasoline in about 8 hours run time without much load on it. That gets fairly expensive considering I was burning roughly $50 worth of fuel in a 24 hour period depending on load. I just try to keep 5-10 gallons of gas around, not only for mowers, etc, but in case of power outages, and if I foresee storms or ice conditions I try to have more, but if the local convenience stores are without power, that will not last long. A longer/better solution is like others have said, and go with a propane powered generator. I did wire up a plug on the meter base so that all I have to do is throw off the main from power, plug a pigtail from my generator, and fire it up, and my entire house is powered up (use common sense and make sure all high demand items are powered off first and only use what is necessary).
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