not sure what has been going on this year but I swear at least 2 times a month, sometimes more, we have lost power. I can understand when a big storm goes through and we had 3 of those that knocked it out for a few days each with thousands of customers out, but we keep having days with blue sky's and suddenly no power really sucks. We decided that for christmas we would buy a generator to be prepared for the next time and thought maybe we could take advantage of some black friday sales to pick up something dependable but honda doesn't do that. Dad decided he wanted a honda because consumer reports said it was the quietest and naturally pretty dependable. Last weekend I went to the shop and picked it up and paid for it and got a quick how-to before loading it up. Yesterday once again with blue sky's and nothing obviously wrong power kicked off. I hear a line got knocked down 2 streets over and it ended up taking about 4 hours before it was back on. We were not hurting but decided this was the time to try it out so we hooked it up and was happy to have it start on the first pull and it is pretty quiet. Karma never works for us like that is is normally the day after the outtage we are scheduled to pick it up.