Last year, my husband bought a generator that could be charged through small solar panels. We didn’t need to worry about having any electric problems as long as the generator stayed charged. Earlier this summer, we had a big storm that downed several trees and left us without electricity. I told my husband he needed to get the generator running. Without electricity, we didn’t have air conditioning, and our son wouldn’t be able to breathe. He had severe asthma, and when it got too hot, it would trigger it. The doctor said he would grow out of the asthma by the time he was six, but we had another couple years to wait for him to be six. We had to have air conditioning for him. My husband went out to start the generator, but nothing happened. He had forgotten to hook up the solar panels so the battery would be charged. He had to go into town and buy gas so he could put it in the generator. I asked what was wrong with using the propane tanks, but he had forgotten to get them filled, too. Minutes were quickly passing by, and I was afraid for my son to go without air conditioning. Fifteen minutes later, I heard the AC come on at the same time as the lights came on. I thought my husband had the generator on, but it was the electricity coming back on. My husband reset the air conditioning so it would turn back on when the electricity turned on. He remembered how much trouble we had getting it started the last time the power went out.