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    Generac Offers Online Hurricane Preparation Resources

    May 26, 2019
    In response to widespread power outages the past few years caused by hurricanes, Generac Power Systems is offering a suite of new resources to help business owners and homeowners to prepare as the 2019 hurricane season begins.

    In response to widespread power outages the past few years caused by hurricanes, Generac Power Systems is offering a suite of new resources to help business owners and homeowners to prepare as the 2019 hurricane season begins.

    Generac began the program early in May along with National Hurricane Preparedness Week May 5-11. Its website is offering a hurricane guide, a power outage assessment to determine each user's level of preparedness, and other information to keep homes and businesses safe.

    "Recent reports show a huge number of people are unprepared for a natural disaster," said Russ Minick, chief marketing officer, Generac. "It is critical to prepare in advance for the power outages that accompany major storms and we are trying to help as many people as possible with our new tools."

    The Generac 2019 hurricane guide provides detailed information about new hurricane rating systems, a useful overview of weather terms that businesses and homeowners need to understand, and a checklist with tips on how to prepare throughout the year. The online preparedness assessment helps users quickly determine their level of preparedness knowledge in a fun and engaging format. The Generac Power Outage Central is the hub to find all outage information from every state in the country. Finally, Generac.com features storm preparedness articles and offers a wealth of information on backup power options.

    Visit Generac.com/outages for more information.

    About the Author

    Michael Roth | Editor

    Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.