"If money isn’t an issue it would be crazy not to have a generator, if nothing else it gives you a couple of weeks or much more of electricity, to adjust to a new situation and charge batteries, manage a well stocked freezer and convert the food into canned, and all kinds of things even working out trades with neighbors where you split their food for your cold storage and let them charge phones and such." Living in 'Hurricans Alley', I have experience in doing that very thing.
(Three days)After Katrina, we were eating freshly made spaghetti, garlic bread w/wine when the RED Cross from Nebraska arrived asking if we needed MRE's. We invited them to lunch, lol.
Yep, it is absolutely the thing for short term emergencies, I might even buy one some day if I come across a real bargain.