By turning off the power for 2 days or more you lessened the fire dangers from trees blowing into power lines and knocking them down. One of the reactions of residents of California is thinking that we need to put our power lines underground more all over (including where I live on the Northern California coast). This is one solution to the problem but putting lines underground is not only very expensive it makes problems of backhoes accidentally digging up lines a new problem to deal with when they dig for sewer lines or water lines or whatever in front of people's homes and businesses.
But, what you don't have with underground power lines is trees being blown into them and knocking them down either.
For example, where I live on the coast during a winter storm in February 2019, power was out for 8 days in our home on the northern Coast so we spent this time with some of our kids in Santa Barbara where this storm wasn't a problem instead. Because we are retired we can do things like this and aren't required by jobs to have to be in one specific place all the time. It was good for my daughter and her then husband to be because they both loved Visiting Santa Barbara with us.
But, the point really is that our neighbors (many of whom are in their 80s) suffered through this power outage for 8 days and most don't have generators like we do there. So, I can just roll my Generac 500 dollar generator that I bought at Orchard supply (when they were still in business) and start it up and run it from 8 or 9 am to 8 or 9PM and not lose all my perishable foods (AND) I can have wifi and TV through cable if it is available then too just by plugging into a surge protector connected to my generator outside by a 100 foot orange cord. And if it rains I might roll my generator slightly into my garage (just out of the rain) while leaving the garage open to keep the rain from stalling it out.
Since it is too warm to ever snow here on the northern Coast because of the Pacific Ocean this works out well (along with trips to local gas stations with well made plastic 2.5 gallon gas cans that I usually burn premium gas for the generator because the generator will tend to last longer that way.
So, if you have a garage to store your generator in or can afford to build a place for a bigger one on your property, I advise you if you can afford it to buy a generator (gas or diesel) for your home. Before I bought my present generator I used the Onan generator built into my motor home to keep my refrigerator running and at least one lamp in the kitchen at night until I shut it off. But, eventually our motor home got old and we had to move on and I bought this Generac from Orchard supply instead. However, you likely can buy a good generator either online or research around where they still sell them in your area. But, the most important thing is: "Never run your generator power through your wall outlets in your home." Why?
My father, grandfather and Uncle were all Electrical Contractors and here is the problem of running power from a generator through your electrical outlets instead of a 100 foot orange cord. Let's say you forget to pull the main off or someone pulls it back on because the power from the power company just came back on and doesn't know you are running power from your generator through the outlets. Then you just exploded your generator or caught your 100 foot cord on fire or both and now your house is on fire!
So, please never run power through your outlets from your generator unless you have a stationary built in Generator system designed for this situation that is engineered that way from the factory.
Oh. That's another thing. We know people in North Carolina who died because when they shut the power off to their home because of a gas leak their automatic generator system went on and blew up their house and killed them. If you have natural gas piped into your home you don't want an automatic gas or diesel Generator because you might die like they did in this situation.
So, you don't want an automatic gas or diesel generator system coming on automatically unless you have no gas piped to your home at all of natural gas.
Regarding generators they seem to be much more expensive than the one I bought at Orchard supply while they were still open.
I looked up Generac Generators and I'm not sure they still make the wheelable model I bought that can run my whole household but here is what I found:
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