I would love a whole-house automatic gas genny, but I just can’t justify the expense.
Our power outages are so infrequent and brief. We don’t have flooding where I live. We have outages maybe 3-6 times a year, most only lasting a few minutes, some up to 3-4 hours. The longest this year was about 7 hours.
I’ve got a couple little Honda 1-2kW quiet gennies and was just about to pull one out when the juice came back on.
It sounds like you can really justify your investment in your situation.
Since we are in our 70s, we probably don’t have many family gatherings left, so we thought “Let’s not run the chance of a big outage ruining Thanksgiving or Christmas since people are flying in.” That and the winter freeze-up problem. We don’t get many outages, usually a moment or two, but when a big blow hits, all bets are off.