Anybody use a generator?

[Rocky Raab]

One thing that I'd never have thought about...

My neighbor had a big generator and the appropriate isolator panel installed because we have power failures due to high winds here - especially in winter.

So the winds came and the power failed for three days. My wife and I moved to a motel, but the neighbor had power all warm and snug. I envied him - for about two weeks.

Seems like the local crooks cruised the neighborhoods during the failure. When they saw a house with lights on (and that thrumming generator sound) they noted the address. Later on, when all was back to normal, they came back and liberated the generator right out of his garage! They got some other stuff, too, but I suspect it was the generator they came for. Cops said that at least five such generators got stolen two weeks after the power failure.