[driftdiver]

I learned in the hurricanes that generators are really loud when all the power is off. You can hear them for a long ways.

[no-to-illegals]

understood ... might be better of with a plastic hand pump and long plastic hollow tube for insert to fuel.

[Travis McGee]

Yep, in a land of silence and darkness, a running generator will be a magnet for marauders.

And if the grid goes down for a year, where is the fuel for it coming from?