Reply #3: Both times I have been without power for more than a few hours

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Were after hurricanes. Although the sky was cloudy during the storms, the time afterward was sunny and solar panels would have been great for those times. In fact the friend of a friend had power after the last storm when none of her neighbors did because she had put in solar panels. One of her neighbors had a generator which ran for a wile, but then it was out of fuel and he could not get any because he could not get out the road due to downed trees.