Washington Post reports: severe weather inspring homeowners to invest in generators

Generators, portable or automatic, can help homeowners survive weather's wrath

By Kimberly Lankford

Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, June 5, 2010 

Home generator sales surged after this winter's snowstorms left many people without power -- and heat -- for days.
Roy Cranford, president of CDS Emergency Power Services, a Baltimore-based company that sells and installs generators throughout the mid-Atlantic region, did 40 estimates for permanent home generators from January to March 2009. The number swelled to 400 for the same three months of this year, when snowstorms blew through the area.
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