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pod said:My husband took a car battery and set it on a tray and connected a power convertor to it. We could plug in an oscillating fan, radio or other small appliances to it. It worked well for a few days before needing recharging.

Kristi! Great minds think alike.
We have an entire "kit" in a rubbermaid container with fans & lights that work the same way. All ours plug into cigarette lighter sockets which are attached by wires to the battery. We used to have a deep crank marine battery that we kept charged for such an occasion. We lived in Hobe Sound, right on the coast, before moving up here & the carport was located such that we could run the wires directly off the car battery & in the carport door into the house. Then the marine battery was for "back up". You just run the car to recharge the car battery. The set up works great! You can go to the auto parts store & get those fans that truckers use & everything else you need to set up the system.
That was before we got the little generator.
Here, we would need longer wires or keep ourselves confined to the kitchen/dining for the duration. This is a larger house. Speaking of Hobe Sound, if we hadn't moved, you can bet we would have evacuated yesterday!!!! Even though we built the house there with our own hands & made sure it was twice as strong as building codes enacted after Andrew, THIS hurricane is nothing to sneeze at and is indeed catastrophic! I'm sure the house down there would hold up but there's not a chance in hades that I would want to go through a direct hit from it. Frances, Jean & Wilma were the last for us. Enough!