generator envy

 

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A 3-day power outage in my area affected 300,000 homes. We had no air-conditioning, but did have "borrrrrrred" children and a refrigerator full of spoiled food.

On the second hot night, I walked along my dark street to the next street over (the one with the big houses). I noticed some houses had lights blazing. There was a humming sound. What the? They had generators.

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Comments

[Tom A.]

The overclass snobs in the million dollar homes in Bethesda usually live on quiet, hilly, dead end streets surrounded by trees! The were snowed in for days this past winter, and now don't have electricity! I think God is a socialist.

[Kathy J, Washington Gardener Mag]

Generators STINK - literally - and they are LOUD. Lived in a garden-style condo and when the power went out one neighbor set up a generator in the adjoining garage to keep his tropical fish alive. The surrounding neighbors nearly died from the fumes entering their units.

[Steve]

Using a generator to light up your house like a christmas tree when others do not have power is in such insensitively poor taste I don't know where to start. Every nouveau riche wannabe should be given a handbook telling them what the gauche nouveau riche lout would do versus what the classy, sensitive, civic-minded blueblood would do. Get them started on the right foot. That is all.

[Nekole]

My mom has a generator. Hell we live on 2 acres in Sandy Spring surrounded by woods (it literally seems like we're in the middle of nowhere at times... we have the dirt/gravel road leading back to nowhere as well) , and there are a couple of neighbors that have generators. We have a couple of generators, one of them will do the whole house... can't use the Oven and stove at the same time, but... it keeps the heat/ac coming, lights on, fridges running... and oh yeah... the toilets flushing (we're an all electric household... with a well and septic tank) so the generator is kind of essential.

Guess where we got the generators? Craigslist... one of them was free, the one that does the whole house was $250. It's paid itself off.

Yes they can be loud, but so can anything else. And rotten food stinks worse than generators.