I bet 2/3rds of the houses on my street have Generacs.
The power used to be much less reliable, the EMC upgraded their service in the area 2-3 years ago and things are much better than prior. The houses were built 7-8 years ago and there were many more issues then. I’m glad to have one, am 2nd owner of the house, 1st owner put a nice one in, water cooled.
Before we had ours installed, there were 3 in our neighborhood of 105 homes. Now there are 5 that I know of. Most people have portable generators but not everyone. We have frequent power outages usually a few hours long, but last year, before we had this one installed, we were without power for 20 hours in winter, but not heavy winter. The portable generator saved our butts on the fridges and freezers. That storm (a tornado) was one of the big reasons why we went forward with the automatic.
Also, why is that when the power goes out I always want to do laundry and then remember I have no dryer? Not anymore, though! I sleep soundly when we go away, as we did this past weekend for a long fun weekend with old friends. There was a power outage, but it was brief according to the neighbors.