Do you own a Champion, Generac or Yamaha?

The Texan wrote:
Why don't they move out of the urban cities to the areas where folks actually camp and use their products......Tell me just how many folks who live in NYC actually camp in a scenario that requires a generator. What about places like Boise or Spokane where probably more than 25% of the folks are outdoor oriented. I have never understood why they think the inner cities are the best place to get an opinion on the outdoors.

I live on Long Island 30 miles east of NYC. When Hurricane Sandy hit last year, on Long Island alone 95% of the population had no electricity. Do the math and you have 2.5 million people without electricity. It took weeks to get power back to the majority and some as long as 2 months. A generator that would normally sell for $400 could be sold for 4 times that. This was the second Hurricane in one year and this year NOAA is predicting more major storms than in previous years.

Being a camper I've had a generators since the early 1980's. After Hurricane Sandy I had my genny running 12 hours a day for two weeks, as long as I could get gas.

One more thing about generators in NYC. I work in Manhattan and there are literally thousands of mobile food carts in NYC. Each and everyone has a Honda EU2000i chained up to the cart. I will also bet that after Hurricane Sandy a fair number of apartment dwellers with a terrace will purchase a Honda generator to power up their apartments when power is lost.

Honda cares about total numbers of generators sold. They probably do not care if the buyer is a camper or a homeowner or a contractor or apartment dweller. It comes down to the how many dollars they can get out of a square mile.