cajungal wrote:We also went over a week without power after Andrew. My mom and dad went through the eyewall with Betsy. And they had no power or water for 3 weeks! We bought a generator after Andrew. And had to spend the night (literally) in Sears to get it with our dog. RIP Lacey. And the ironic thing is as soon as we got home with it, the power came back on. The power has never been off for an extended period of time since Andrew, so 13 years later, it has never been used. Maybe this will be the year we finally get to use it?
Hehh... Better give it a try *before* the storm. I carried a lawn mower to a local small engine repair a couple weeks after Georges came through here and there must have been, conservatively, 200+ generators there. The point is, they figured they had a generator around, and when it came time to actually *use* the thing, it wouldn't work.
If they aren't used, they tend to just gunk up and if you wait until the storm comes to get it in shape, you may well find out that you've been storing a piece of useless metal all these years.
