Well here in Ohio its -15° with wind chills @ 30-40 below. I woke up at three am to find our power was out. No big problem I've got a generator to plug into the owb to run the fan and pumps. So I went outside to check the wood burner and pipes still warm, so I figured power must have just recently went out. At this point I'm pretty happy. Went out to the barn to fire up my generator and must have pulled and ethered that thing for 20-30 minutes and nothing. So cold hardly wants to even turn over. At this point I'm starting to worry some, but I've got an awesome neighbor with a generator. I wake him out of bed @330 to tell him the powers out and I'm worried my pipes will freeze on my owb can I borrow your generator for a spell. No problem I pick him up go to his barn and his won't start either. This whole time I had the door to my owb cracked and a fire is just a blazing, but I'm still worried the line that goes to the garage and goes above grade to enter the garage is going to freeze. In the hour or so it took messing around with the generators the power came back on and not all was lost. The water in my owb had gotten up to 208 and no pipes froze, but what a wake up call this has been for me. I'm bringing my generator in where its warm and will probably get a back up today. For a guy that likes to be prepared I sure got caught with my pants down, and this could have ended a lot worse had the power not come back on so soon.