Ordered a generator from Lowes this morning.

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31. You're not kidding about the carbon monoxide...

A fair number of years ago we had a five day power outage because I lived at that time near where the power lines could be decimated by falling trees, and we had this enormous wind storm, which did so. I went out and bought 40 gallons of gasoline, had a small, portable generator and put it on the porch, outside my family room, nowhere near the windows, or the house, I would say about 10 feet away in open air. Within half an hour, my two carbon monoxide detectors went off, almost simultaneously. I ran outside and turned it off and moved it way away from the house.

Interestingly, right before the detectors went off, I was feeling in fact, kind of woozy, but attributed it to not having enough sleep the night before . Everybody needs to be careful, and really careful because you think you’re OK, you think you did the right thing, but occasionally weird stuff happens with you absolutely would not expect.