Originally Posted by Babaganoosh

We have a natural gas generator. Honestly we forget it's there. It starts and runs for ~10 minutes once per week. It's pretty funny when the power goes out to the neighborhood and we're the only house in sight with all of the lights on.

The entire house is on the generator and it can supply enough power to run the stove, oven, fridge, washer, dryer, TV and computers all at the same time.

Honestly I wish the power would go out for days during the winter. I'd be selling hot pop tarts and hot ramen noodles for $10 each.