[blam]

We have hurricane parties....that's to eat all the food in the freezers before it goes bad...invite everyone.

I have a generator and save my food in the freezers though.

[patton]

I, too, have a generator - but that will only work for a couple of weeks, given the fuel on hand.

After that - time to smoke a cow.

And we have done, in this suburb of DC - lost power for a week in Isabel, los not one pound of hamburger to thawing.

But there are limits. At some point, you have to ask, is the outage local, and is is temporary?

Because fuel might have a better use than running the generator.