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Originally Posted by mdoyle
Anyway the trick I learned while we waited someplace cool with our new baby for the power to return, was to call our home. If the answering machine picked up, the power was on  |
We were doing that from the get-go, but something weird happened after awhile. The phone wouldn't ring, we were getting a busy signal. Really pissed us off.
I had a couple of generator folks give us estimates about 6 months ago and found out some interesting things. The first is that a whole house generator, as in the kind that will run all the A/C's and everything else, can be pretty darned expensive. I'm re-evaluating my expectations here.
The other thing I learned is that because of our proximity to the water and that we fall under the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, we have to jump a number of regulatory hoops to get a generator. Just like gettting a pool here is a real PITA.
I still see a generator in the near future, not the massive scale I really want.