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Now you could ask how many nights in a hotel room can be bought for $14k, quite a few, but you‘d have to find a hotel with power, and the kicker is for an event like this, it‘s a matter of convienence and much more of this type of weather is anticipated.
For a 3 week event, running the gasoline generator, about $1000, making trips out daily for gas, because, you’d want to stay ahead of the curve, and how far would you have to drive to get gas? 3 weeks in a hotel, maybe $3k, not to mention if you leave, without power, you’d need to empty out your refridgerator and freezer and you’d be abandoning your home. Now, granted, I’m assuming my home will still be intact. Noted, there are tornadoes that can accompany hurricanes,
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I already own a gasoline powered generator that if used, burns about 15 gallons ($45) of gas per day, it has to be constantly tended with refills of gas, and I keep 10 jugs of 5 gallon containers of gas, which would last about 3 days. So for a several day event, I could handle this. But in parts of Houston, where they got the brunt of the the recent T storms, some areas were projected to be without power for 3 weeks, just because of the huge number of people who lost power and that wasn’t even a hurricane.
Fortunately, we live 75 miles from the Gulf, and in the highest part of our neighborhood, the farthest from the nearby San Jacinto River, that poses the flood threat, and we have never flooded, knock on wood.
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