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Old 03-20-2011, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Sunny Florida
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My wife and I will be moving to the Phoenix area from Florida soon, I know we can leave the lawn mower behind, but do we need to bring our generator, a must here in Florida during hurricane season? Do you regularly have power outages of more than an hour or two?
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Old 03-20-2011, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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No, longer power outages here are infrequent fairly localized and caused by thunderstorm damage in summer. The only widespread outage here was many years ago when the western power grid had a malfunction that cascaded down into AZ. Even that was only a few hours. I think I'd leave the generator, sell it to a new FL resident. Hope your move goes smoothly!

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Old 03-20-2011, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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A real man owns a generator whether he needs it or not. Man up and bring the genny along.
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Old 03-20-2011, 10:53 AM
 
Location: AZ
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Might want to bring the mower too.
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Old 03-20-2011, 11:01 AM
 
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Better to have it and not need it rather then need it
and not have it

I'm on one of the older grids, so I had a converter
box hooked right up to the fuse box

Now all I do is plug it in and pull the cord, I have
the fridge, small A/C and a few outlets hooked up
as well as the garage door
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Old 03-20-2011, 01:35 PM
 
Location: Surprise, Az
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I would bring the mower and generator.
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Old 03-20-2011, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Rural Michigan
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Selling my lawnmower & giving my snowblower away were two of my best memories in my move to Arizona. The generator might be useful if you have a welder (and if the generator is big enough), because welding tends to spike your power bill. ( on-peak electricity is brutally expensive in the summertime here).

Power outages have been really short and infrequent here, but if you already own a generator, I'd bring it anyway.
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Old 03-20-2011, 06:24 PM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix, AZ USA
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Maybe it's two different questions. Will you need it, due to frequent long power outages? No. As long as you have it anyway, should you throw it on the van just in case you have some use for it sometime, even other than a power failure? Sure, might as well.
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Old 03-20-2011, 07:29 PM
 
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The electric doesn't go off like in Florida. I know when I lived there it was out at least 2/week for short periods. Here, it's seldom.
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Old 03-20-2011, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Surprise, Az
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I gave away my lawn mower when I moved here from California. I had to buy one once I put grass in the back yard. You could use the generator when camping.
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