[spokeshave]

You would have thought that the relatives could spring for a grand to buy a back up generator for the pump.

[spokeshave]

Insurance is like a parachute....you buy it when you don't need it.,...

And you can't buy it when you need it.

[Global2010]

That is a very shallow response.

Your a Jerk.

[Nailbiter]

Helps to read the article. They did and were unable to get started, in addition they had hand pump.
But was to no avail, Go called her home.

[CholeraJoe]

Speaking from personal experience, iron lungs can be operated manually for several hours, or by backup battery. It wouldn’t have taken even $1000 to get a generator. My Cabelas catalog offers a Champion generator for $399.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Family members were unable to get an emergency generator working after a power failure knocked out electricity to the Odell family's residence near Jackson, about 80 miles northeast of Memphis, brother-in-law Will Beyer said.

"We did everything we could do, but we couldn't keep her breathing," Beyer said. "Dianne had gotten a lot weaker over the past several months, and she just didn't have the strength to keep going."

Odell, who contracted polio when she was 3 years old, lived with her parents, Freeman and Geneva Odell, and their house was equipped with an emergency generator designed to fire up immediately in a power failure.

"But for some reason, it didn't come on," Beyer said.