Greg:
Glad you are doing as well as can be expected.
Back with hurricane Sandy up here I was out of power for 18 days. Ran a 9.9 KW gen (gasoline). Real good friend from north Jersey dropped the gen and 30 gal of gas. Backfed cb in my Sq D QO panel, main locked/tag out.
As to the neighbors, yes, they came calling. I 'supervised' a few, had a few others that had to make it 'safer'.
If I owned a gen back then, it would have been a victim of the flood!
There have been a steady install of whole house gens since Sandy hit, a lot in the Twp I work in, all are natural gas, or as you call it 'piped gas'. I have not seen any propane units, but they are around.
Funny, but sad, two (2) gens recently installed at two firehouses failed inspection yesterday. Both start & run manually, but don't run on utility failure. DUHH!! One diesel, 1 natural gas. Unhappy group with concerns over Jose and Maria.
Stay safe.
