[fabsroman]

Please, 5000 watts won't run nearly an entire house. My dad plumb blew one generator up after we had hurricane Andrew come through here and they were out of electricity for a week+. Of course, he blew it up the first day. He hooked up 4 fridges, the entertainment center because the World Cup was on, lights throughout the house, my computer and laser printer when I used to live and have my office at their house (long story), and then he went to cut a fallen tree with an electric chain saw. The chain saw sent the thing over the edge, and the piston/rod shot out the side of the motor housing. Not to mention that every time I printed something with the laser printer, the draw was so bad that I could hear the generator whine and my battery backup started beeping. If anything took too long to print, the computer would start to shut down. Man, was it tough to get work done. I was going back and forth from my girlfriend's, now my wife, condo because she never lost her electricity and I wast taking my laptop and "portable" laser printer with me. That was a rough week.