03-29-2018, 01:22 PM
At my parents’ last house, they bought a generator, the kind designed for these outages. Fully integrated to both electric and to their propane tank. Presumably you could get one that runs off nat gas. At any rate, they never had to worry about gassing it up or stale gas. Programmed to start up once a month, to ensure everything was working OK.
Their place had frequent short term outages of just a few minutes, so it was more of annoyance than risk of tossing the fridge contents. But the whole house had power less than 30 seconds. I would not want to be fiddling with the car and cables at midnight. Assuming the car is even home when the outage occurs.
Their place had frequent short term outages of just a few minutes, so it was more of annoyance than risk of tossing the fridge contents. But the whole house had power less than 30 seconds. I would not want to be fiddling with the car and cables at midnight. Assuming the car is even home when the outage occurs.