Mother Nature's icy valentine plunged more than 70,000 county homes into darkness and cold, but at 4:40 a.m. when the power failed at the his home outside Annapolis there was nary a worry.
His two-day-old Briggs and Stratton EM15 whole house generator kicked in without a hitch.
"If a couple of appliances had not beeped I would not have even noticed," Mr. Trazenfeld said this week. "It worked."
Mr. Trazenfeld is one of thousands of area residents who have turned to generators to power their homes after continued power outages rendered them helpless in the electric age.
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