Getting Ready For Hurricane Michael - With A Honda Natural Gas Generator

When Tallahassee gets hit by hurricanes - the first thing to go is the power. The town has too many trees and they overgrow the power lines. A branch goes down and so does the power - sometimes for as long as 3 weeks.

We handle that with a Honda natural gas generator. Honda makes great quiet generators in all sizes. The one I have produces 2000 watts. That is a lot of electricity when you have none. The refrigerator uses less than 150 watts. The TV uses about 200 watts. LED light bulbs use about 10 watts. Add it up and you can run a lot of appliances on this generator.

The generator cost about $1250. Honda does not make them to run on natural gas. A company in Maine takes the gasoline model and put a gas regulator on it. It is a very nice professional conversion.  I put an outside tap on our gas line for our gas grill. It serves double duty by running the generator. The generator also runs on gasoline or propane - so it is called a tri-fuel generator.

Unlike gasoline - natural gas is a much cleaner burning fuel. Still I would never run this generator inside the house. Often times during hurricane - there is no gasoline available. The city has never had a natural gas outage.

We expect Hurricane Michael to hit town Wednesday around noon. Hopefully it will be calmed down a little from its present 120 MPH winds.

A whole house generator can cost $7000 to $9000. They are really nice and can even run you air conditioner or heat. But $1250 to me - makes more sense.