Good luck waking it up again Rick.
When you do get a generator, make sure to place it outside when run- not even in the garage. When our area was hit with the ice storm of '98, quite a few people died and the majority were from carbon mooxide poisoning from generators. Also do not put something like a grill or even a gas space heater inside. I almost didn't wake up one morning trying to keep the pipes from freezing. After that I said to heck with it and left till the poer came back on a week later. The pipes still didn't freeze.