>>Some are just flippant nuts who say things like “Well just use your Y2K supplies.” as a jab, not caring or realizing that Y2K was a legitimate problem that governments and companies spent millions of dollars and thousands of man hours to fix.
Since you bring up Y2K, I’ll take the time to tell a story on that.
In August or September of ‘99, I’m in line at Costco with a generator on one of the big low carts. The guy in line behind me asks “Is that a Y2K generator?”
I said, “That’s an Atlanta Winter ice storm (not uncommon here), Dunwoody (north ATL ‘burb) tornado, hurricane Opal (came up fast from the Gulf and did a lot of damage here), Y2K generator.”
He got the point.
Y2K came and went, no problems as expected. End of January comes, NFL NFC/AFC championship weekend, and we have a big snowstorm that takes out the power. I powered my furnace, refrigerator, router, computer, TV, a few lights AND my neighbor’s furnace for about 60 hours with that generator. The first day out was the Sunday of the NFC playoff game (AFC had played Saturday), so I was quite popular for having a working TV - and heat! My SIL/BIL used it for another 24 hours after my 60, as they didn’t get power back as quickly.
I was really, really glad to have that “Y2K” (not really) generator. So back to those guys being jerks about Y2K provisions and by extension, prepping in general - sc*** them.
I’ve used it several times since, for power outages of varying durations. I’ll still probably someday get a large stationary multifuel genset and hook it up to my natural gas, and maybe even get a propane tank. But this small portable guy has served me very, very well.
I like that story.
What type generator did you get? If it’s provided that long a service life, I’d like to know.