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Originally Posted by sterlingice
It's something we've strongly considered in the event of hurricanes but never pulled the trigger on
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We've gone back and forth over whether to get one just about every winter we've been here. (This is our 7th.) One year we even bought one in anticipation of the power going out for a specific storm, and then returned it since we never took it out of the box when we never lost power. Psychologically, it felt better to finally pull the trigger on this one because the power was already out, seemed that it was gonna be a while (8+ hours and counting as of this writing, and it's still hovering around freezing and raining) and because we're getting a stimulus-check-fueled tax refund of about a grand, so it'll feel like a wash. (The company I work for didn't pay out bonuses in 2020, thus reducing my income from 2019, and sure enough, there IS a tax credit for that.)