Over the summer, our air conditioning went out a couple of times when we did not have electricity.
We have been having a lot of power outages in our neighborhood, and we decided that we were sick and tired of being without air conditioning for any length of time so that’s why we ended up buying a generator. However, now that it’s winter, we realized that the generator is not only good for the air conditioning during the summer! It’s been really cold around here this winter. It’s actually been one of the coldest winters that we have had on record. The temperatures have been in the teens more days than I can count, and a lot of times we have been dealing with single digits. That’s pretty cold for around here. I usually don’t mind the cold so much, but with the power going out all the time, the cold has really been an issue for us. However, last week when the power went out, we did not have any trouble with it at all because we had our great generator. Even though everyone else in the neighborhood was freezing and trying to heat their homes with their wood burning fireplaces, we did not have that problem at all. My husband just went outside to the carport and turned our generator on. We were just as cozy as we always are. I am really thankful that we have that generator to run our heating system with so that we don’t have to worry about getting too cold in our house. I think we will always have a generator now, just for the furnace if for no other reason!