What You Need to Know to Protect Your Home and Wallet from Weather Event

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Whether you like to hibernate all winter or you enjoy hitting the slopes, don’t forget to be prepared for power outages, especially this year, as the “Old Farmer’s Almanac,” known for accurately forecasting weather since 1792, is calling for the “worst winter in years.”
Last winter, hundreds of thousands of homeowners learned the hard way about the importance of having immediate back-up power. And, as more people work from home, power outages become more than an inconvenience, but an economic impediment as well. In addition to weather related outages, the electrical grid has been plagued by more and worse blackouts in recent years, due to aging wires, pole transformers and other lagging infrastructure. In fact, non-disaster-related outages affected at least 50,000 consumers last year. This, coupled with increasingly volatile weather patterns and an increasing reliance on technology, create a perfect storm for outages. To mitigate the inconvenience, cost and danger of inevitable power outages, it’s becoming increasingly important that every homeowner consider a backup generator.
 
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