Learning curve, can you imagine if the proverbial shite hit the fan and there was something happening a lot worse that in it was ? That experience would "learn ya", your sons in that case. I know the routine, at home and or at the other place with all the horses, water is precious when the power is out and you have no gen set.
Personally, I highly respect someone who is prepared, in advance, because they think ahead, with a contingent mindset about their back up plan. It saves you work, provides relief and keeps you safe, sometimes people in general let human instinct take over and wait til the last minute when things are super critical, just not good policy, the learning curve is just one event, most will make changes after dealing with a serious problem like a power outage.
At home I have solar battery back up, behind that is my NT251 Miller welder /8.5 K generator, which is also available to our farm if the power will be out for an extended time, and its not my responsibility but when I worked there, I tried to stay prepared on a personal level mostly because it would save me a lot of work just being able to pump water.
At home we had a nice outage when the temps were in the teens, ice storm '08, that certainly reinforced a few things on preparedness, now have back up power and back up beyond that to charge the batteries, no worry at all, let the power go out. I will say for that event, I had 2 cord of 2yr seasoned wood, stashed aside, and I had initially fixed up my wood stove for that purpose, 2nd source of heat now I use it often, that heat from it on that bitter cold day, with no power literally saved the day, had my elderly mother to look after and a house to keep pipes from freezing. Things changed after that event.
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