standby generator

The Keed.

The standby generator.

We are on the standby generator this morning.
In fulfillment of an area-wide high-wind warning, the wind was a-howling, so the standby generator kicked on about 7:05. The standby generator is right below our bedroom window.
It pushes everything but our bedroom lights, the laundry-room, and the AC. It’s there to keep the freezers going, the stove, the furnace, and the water-heater. All have electric elements (kind of like welding-elements).
(I use the term “element” in a general sense. No doubt the almighty engineer from Boston, who despite his immense knowledge and training blew which way the dreaded funicular would go at the mighty Curve, will start blustering. BLUSTERING ALERT! The water-heater has an electric draft-inducing fan (and an electronic pilot), the furnace has an electric blower and probably an electronic pilot, and the stove’s oven has an electronic pilot, and the burners have sparkplugs.
I.e. nothing works without electricity (although the stove-burners could be lit with matches, but not the oven). The stuff in the freezers melts, the heat goes away, and the hot water disappears. We don’t need AC; and we don’t need lights in our bedroom. If need be, the washing-machine could be plugged into a live outlet.
But if the hot water goes, we’re stuck. Our old tankless water-heater delivered hot water without electricity, but what we have now needs electricity.
What’s irksome is the standby generator is still running. What if it runs all day? Our gas-bill will be out-of-sight. Isn’t there some way to kill it?
Off at about 11:20.