The best type of generator to buy depends on your energy use now.
If you use oil to heat - you have a 275 gallon diesel tank in your cellar - go with a diesel generator. Home Heating Oil is Diesel Fuel.
If you have a gas line or using propane - buy a natural gas/propane generator.
If those options are not available - buy a gas powered generator - keep gasoline on hand always (rotate your stock by filling your car tanks and freshening up the storage cans - because it has that “icky” ethanol in it.)
This goes for everyone in the country, utility companies are run too efficiently - everyone will be waiting longer and longer to get back up to speed....take heed.
Thanks for the tip on the diesel generator.
I was puzzling over storing fuel, when your post made me say to myself “duh, you’ve got a 500 gallons worth of storage capacity”.
Thanks again.