>>>Washing machine, air condition and electric stove should wait for regular current, but it should be possible to get a hot cup of coffee or tea.
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>>These small generators look nice. The price is very reasonable too. I wonder how easy or difficult would be to connect such a generator to a house electrical grid. Keeping in mind that in the USA the codes are very stringent, as far as how to connect fuel or electrical lines. But for sure better than $10K.
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>I think for heavy-duty installations a transfer switch is installed near your main switchbox. You can configure which of your home's circuits are energized while on backup/generator power. My understanding is that can be quite expensive to buy and install.
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Never researched that angle, but as even small solar roofs will give you well above 5KW/peak, that cost should have come down a bit since solar began to grow.


>Probably most homeowners unplug their freezers etc from the wall, and use long extension cords to connect them to the generator outdoors somewhere. I imagine lots of people in Florida are doing just that right now :(

Just hope that they are smart enough to use many extension cords to the plugs directly on generator and not one cord from generator to house with 1 powerstrip attempting to power all needed devices via satellite power strips. Some of them will transform energy directly into heat when fed ~3.5KW