Windy weather can cause havoc in our area. Dry conditions and strong winds increase the chances for power disruption. Learn why it’s time to consider the benefits of a generator and how it can protect your home and family.
Just give our team a call when you’re ready to schedule your in-home assessment and we can help you pick the generator that best fits your needs. This way, you aren’t caught in a power outage without electricity to keep you comfortable and can prevent food in your fridge and freezer from spoiling.
How Does Wind Affect Electricity?
We often think of losing electricity during storms, and storms are often windy. You may not realize it, but wind plays a major role in electrical outages. The thing about wind is that it’s not exclusive to storms. In fact, our area frequently has windy weather. Wind can whip electrical lines or sling debris that damages them and causes your power to flicker or go out completely.
In addition to weakening the usability of your electricity, this can also be highly stressful. How long will your power be out? Is the food in your fridge and freezer going to go bad? This added stress alone is reason enough to invest in a generator so you don’t have to worry about random electrical outages.
Generator Benefits
When you have a generator, you can connect it to some or all of your home to ensure that items can continue operating like normal no matter how long your power is out. With a portable generator, you have to manually plug in items to your generator and make sure you have enough battery charge and gas on hand for a power outage. If your power is out for longer than you expect, there’s a potential for running out of gas or needing to replace your generator battery on a portable model.
The Whole-House Difference
Instead, we encourage you to consider a whole-house generator that will turn on automatically during any power outage. You don’t have to worry about turning a portable generator on or deciding what to plug-in and what to leave unusable.
A portable generator is a great solution if it’s all you have, but investing in a whole-house model proactively you can ensure that life continues on at your house without any interruptions to service. Whole-house generators connect directly to a natural gas line and have sensors that signal when the power is out so the generator can turn on automatically.
This is great because if you’re not home when the power goes out, you may not know how long it has been out for. With a whole-house generator, you don’t have to complete any manual tasks of your own to turn it on. Plus, a whole-house generator can run for as long as it needs to. If you have a long-term power outage that lasts days you don’t have to worry about running out of gas or battery life like you would if you had a portable generator.
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