additionally... the trio of tropical storms in 2004 gave me power outages from 5 to 9 days, and at that time I did not have a generator...it made a significant change to the emergency management structure of Florida...partnerships with large grocery chains gave tax incentives for them to have on site generators to keep foods refrigerated...legislation requiring filling stations to have back up power on site, and a concerted effort for power companies to trim potential overhang from impacting their power transmission lines, which often supported cable services and hard wire telephone lines... change in ownership of the public utility services, unfortunately, has not kept up with the right of way clearing effort... luckily, we haven't had many serious storms since Irma (3 day)... these situations, have however, provided a lot of lessons learned... regards