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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kevin Mader, post: 6431969, member: 106826&quot;]It is.&nbsp; I tend to get cranky by day 3 of no power.&nbsp; I&#039;m on a well, so without it...no water.&nbsp; I had the generator for a few years now, but I didn&#039;t have it wired into the home until this year.&nbsp; Now if the power goes out, I run a separate breaker box with the essentials and a few extras (furnace, pump, refrigerator, extra freezer, and a few circuits to run lights and outlets.&nbsp; Not enough to run the oven/range, but I have an outdoor grill that goes into service winter, summer, spring or fall.&nbsp; And I can run indoor hotplates/griddles for other things.&nbsp; So at this point, we can manage pretty well.&nbsp; But I can think of a few very cold outages over the years where the only heat was coming from my fireplace insert.&nbsp; I had to run the generator to operate the fan to make it worth the while.&nbsp; But we got by as I spit nails.&nbsp; I fully expect that there will be those occasions.&nbsp; But in my neck of the woods, where density is 741 people per square mile...the expectation is that the utility companies consider that this isn&#039;t a rural state where folks normally are better at being self sustaining.&nbsp; We &#039;city slickers&#039; really come to depend on the utility folks providing utilities.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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