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Gunner wrote:

In a larger disaster, I would find loud gas generators something
of an advertisement that you might not want to make. A small steam
plant would quietly let you continue without irking neighbors. That
might sound minor, but believe me, it’s not. In our typical housing
development, those who ran gas generators got shunned.

A disaster usually makes lots of scrap wood availiable to run a steam
boiler, but it's often too wet or green to use.
You don't have to have a noisy generator, you can get a Honda that is
quiet enough to have a conversation alongside. The cheap generators are
VERY noisy.

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