What do you do if the power goes out? When we had a house in Toccoa and a house in Clayton, it was simple. If the power went down in Clayton, we would get in the car and drive 40 minutes down to Toccoa. And vice-versa.

We decided to sell out in Toccoa and move permanently into our Clayton house. A very mountainous area that normally has a few power outages during the year. Some have lasted for several days. Down to living in one house, we were out of options if the power goes out. I would drag out our 4,000 watt gasoline power and pull the cord and hope it cranks!

Our solution was to put in what some of you already have, a whole-house emergency generator. We put in a Generac brand that runs on Natural gas or on LP gas. Our area does not have Natural Gas available so we had to put in a large LP gas tank and had it buried to eliminate the eye-sore.

We can rest much easier when these heavy thunderstorms come through blowing down trees and powerlines or these sometimes heavy ice or snow storms move through our area. So far, we have had one outage and it was a good test of the system. Our power went out and 5 sec later our power was back on due to our generator kicking in. The outage only lasted 15 minutes and it came back on and our generator automatically turned back off.

Here is a photo of our Generac. By the way, they are not cheap but in our case, very much worth every penny.

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