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Originally Posted by map
May I ask- do you lose power a lot in the lakes region? We will be moving to The Weirs most likely this winter when our little home is finished being built.
We are from a rural area in NY and here we have a whole house generator, which has been a blessing due to a lot of power outages- many lasting a long time.
Our new home will be forced air propane. The house is only 1100 square feet.
Due to the design of the house we could not put in a gas fireplace, so we are thinking of maybe getting one of those electric "wood stoves" for ambience and extra heat.
But I worry about losing power and wondering if we should spring for a generator. Our son, who lives in Plymouth and works in Laconia claims the power rarely if ever goes out.
What say you?
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Welcome to the Forum. The last very long outage was after an ice storm in 1998 I believe. More recently there was one 24+ hour outage while we were away, last year I think. In West Alton we lose power maybe 2 to 5 times a year however they normally are short term. Typically an hour or two maybe 4 hours at most. These are usually isolated events such as one tree down or one pole down in an auto accident. I think that Loconia has less of these short term outages than West Alton.
A few here have whole house generators, more have a portable and even more have no generator.