No Ice Storm for Us

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We were without power for 4-days this past summer when storms came through and we picked up a good sized generator a month after the storm from someone that bought it and used it for two days and decided they didn't want to store it

It saved us about $250 off a $650 generator!

Personally, with the way things are in this world I would loan/rent the generator to someone you trust but personally I am not sure I would want to sell it unless you wanted a different unit for some reason.

In the post 911 world we live in I am perhaps a little paranoid but I woud rather be a little paranoid with my Generator and 15-gals of gas for it then to find myself without heat or electric for weeks on end if someone decided to go after the power grid much less a natural event.

If we didn't lose what we had to toss because of no power we would have likely paid for over half of what we paid for the generator... I am glad be bought a generator as 4-days is not as bad as some people get stuck in the dark!

[Carol C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Carol C]

Wow, thanks for posting. We've got a generator from Y2K still in a box. And we've got a gas station now that's within walking distance. Tonight's the night to rev it up, as the ice is apparently headed our way from Alabama. We were without power due to ice for 6 hrs a few years back, but in the city of Atlanta where we now live, power was out in some parts for *10 days* from that storm! So...I'm going to put my scary generator and a few gallons of gas on our porch, like Jim did, to scare the storm away!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

My plan is to pick up one of the 1000's of generators that have come into our area and will be on the market or taken back to stores in the next month.

Jenny did not want to trust a used generator, but I think we have determined that a new one may not be any better, except for the warranty.

Last Spring when we had our lift transferred to our new dock, the guy that did that had a new generator, just out of the box, and it blew up. The engine on our power washer, very similar, also blew up last year when we lent it to a neighbor. The power washer was one that had been returned to Lowe's, and we had it for several years without a problem.

The engine in our power blower shot craps last year, too, still within the warranty period. It seems that those high-rev small engines do not do too well. They seem to be touchy.

I find it strange that home generator engines come without oil in the crankcase. The law of averages suggests that some will not read the instruction book, just put gas in it and start it up.