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If you set up with a gen of sufficient size to power up much of your home, the "proper" way to do it is with an auto switch-out box. This device automatically isolates your home from the grid when you power up you gen, so that feedback into the grid is impossible. Any competant electrician can...

All I have is wood heat and flashlights now, really. We heat 95% with wood anyway. I don't own a generator. We can cook on the wood stove and on the stovetop in the kitchen (the range is propane, so the oven needs electricity to operate the valve, but the burners light with a match). We...

And how is that different than with?? :lol: :P ;)

Well, it definitely is a matter of being set up beforehand to be less dependent on electricity should it not be there, as is fairly frequently the case out in my rural neck of the woods. If you don't do that, then I reckon it has to be hard to do without. I just cannot imagine failing to...

I always find it interesting how most people get all wigged out when the power goes out for a half day or a day, even a few hours. It really doesn't inconvenience us significantly until it gets over 48 hours, and then only because the refrigerator/freezer begins to warm up. Life just goes to...