Propane has an indefinite shelflife. You might want to go with 40 pound bottles of propane. These are the type you would see on the front of a travel trailer. Three or four of these would be easier to move around and transport.

Here's a budget option: a dual fuel portable Westinghouse model 5300 generator ($650), Reliance indoor transfer switch ($450), electrician to install this panel (~$800 or so), a 100 lb propane bottle or two from Lowes ($200 each). So for around $2,000 you can keep the critical items running like your refrigerator, boiler / furnace, lights and microwave oven and get through several days of an outage without a lot of hardship and without having to manage the shelf life issues associated with a gasoline appliance.

Typically these systems are designed to have one days worth of capacity remaining even after the high level alarm sounds. This is the alarm that warns the homeowner that the pump isn't operating. You could probably flush toilets as you normally do for 2-3 days without a worry during an outage, even longer if you are skipping showers due to a lack of hot water.

The notion that someone would uproot their life, become a climate refugee and move 171 miles away seems far fetched.

And moving from Massachusetts to Vermont will make a big difference in climate? This makes little sense.

From the article: Across the country, local chapters of Boy Scouts of America are selling land to pay for $2.46 billion in settlements resulting from a lawsuit that involved the alleged sexual abuse of more than 80,000 former scouts. 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/04/1103083504/boy-scouts-land-sales-bankruptcy

I don't believe for a minute that there were 80,000 Scouts molested. This is the root cause issue, the financial settlements are bankrupting the organization and impacting local communities. What did we think would happen?

This is silly. National Forests are land set aside for get this.....logging! They're not national parks, they are tracts of reusable resources for paper, lumber etc.

Two words; reverse osmosis.

Just how many people do you want to see here? Another thousand? Ten thousand?

Not disparaging investment property owners might be a good tactic.

This is great news. Fuck these thieves.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/13/record-7-million-people-awaiting-hospital-treatment-says-nhs-england

Thanks Obama!

A trip to the Caribbean in April. It will get him over the hump.

As others have said Airens, two-stage, gasoline. I saved some $ buying a compact 24" Airens however during big storms this requires me to go out mid-storm and tackle the driveway, and then a second trip later to finish. With a larger model I could have waited. Also I recommend purchasing from a dealer as mine (Small Engine Co.) gives service priority to their customers. Finally, have the dealer do an overall service at least every other fall. Snowblowers have many moving parts that need to be lubricated and adjusted.

Precisely. The wind doesn't always blow nor does the sun always shine. We need a reliable grid and the grid needs reliable sources of generation.