I've seen some of those type inverters, they are portable, Sometimes used to jump a car battery. One of the guys at work has one and only uses it to power up his laptop when we are working in the middle of a store with no power. I wouldn't expext it to run a lot of stuff for too long.

I haven't heard of FEMA paying for people to buy generators or inverters. I don't think they will because they don't want you staying there in a disaster area, they want you evacuated. Also, "FEMA approved" doesn't mean much, they also approved travel trailers with formaldahyde in them that has made people sick. If they do pay for it, I'm sure it will be like everything else and you will have to meet several criteria to get reimbursed.

If you are looking at generators or inverters, don't just assume that what they say it will run will actually run all those things that you have. Different lights or whatever have different power draws. Most generators or inverters have a peak wattage rating and a normal/continuous wattage rating. You need to figure up how many watts you will be using to run certain items and then look for something that will power up that much at the normal rating. To do so, look at the item to see how many amps it is. AMPS x VOLTS = WATTS.

We had a conf. call this morning with all our guys in Houston. Sounds like several of them had generators fail after running for so long. Might be good to have a back up to your back up.