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No lights? No television? No cold refrigerator to keep your food from spoiling? No big deal — if you have a backup power supply. Many of us remember what it was like to have no electrical power for an ...

From refrigerators full of spoiled food to flood damage made worse by failed sump pumps, power outages caused by severe weather can have serious consequences. A storm like Henri could cause power ...

The best tip for buying a portable home generator: Don’t wait until the lights go out. Whether you live in a place at the mercy of snowstorms, hurricanes, heat waves or an outdated electric grid, a ...

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Mother Nature means business when she unleashes a summer storm with thunder, lightening, high winds, and buckets of fast-falling rain on Northeast Ohio. That fury often means power outages, sometimes ...

Outside Christopher Glenn's house in the small Oregon community of Melrose, a white metal box sits next to the garage. The home standby generator was installed after a long outage in 2019. "We had a ...