Our power lines are buried in this neighborhood, so there have been precious few instances of outages. But about a half hour ago, the ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD (and then some) went belly-up.
I bought a 20kW Kohler generator and had it installed when we moved into this house 4 years ago. With transfer switch. Running natural gas.
Everybody else in the neighborhood is dark, but I'm lit up like a Christmas tree (uh...kinda
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Checked the power company and there are about 3,000 customers without power. Whatever the problem is, it's big. Glad we did what we did -- when I was without power in my Salt Lake City home 20 years ago for 10 days, I swore that would never happen again.