ml> you should have seen us when fran came thru here... it was 3 days later
ml> before we got the generator and then another week i think before
ml> commercial
ml> power came back on... we were very glad to have that generator... at that
ml> time, one only needed to pull the cord once or twice to get it going...
ml> now
ml> it takes a lot more pulling to get it going... i'm pretty winded and down
ml> after 40 pulls with no fire :/

I really thought our power was going to be out much longer than 24 hours. 
Even at 24 hours, that would not have been fun.  It was in the upper 30s a few
of the nights afterwards.  A few people I talked to still had no power later
in the week and said their indoor house temp was in the low 50s.  

- Mark

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