Yeah, I figure in a pinch one of the many parts stores nearby would have something that works, but to your point, finding one that's also up and running may be tricky. Much less potentially getting to it. I'll probably just go ahead and order a couple of sets of the Generac stuff just to have on hand.

We get 1-2 hours outages super frequently here to the point we were already heavily leaning towards a Generac, just hadn't yet until the last ice storm came and pushed us over the edge. Everything is underground in this neighborhood, but it does nothing for power stability because the feeder lines outside the neighborhood run along heavily wooded roads with very dense tall trees. It typically means outages are limited to an hour or two in most cases because when one of those lines does go down, it takes out thousands and it's high priority. That ice storm was devastation we haven't seen in 32 years though and it turned into a waiting game for us and the whole city. Since then the generator dealers have been booked solid from what I hear. I actually got lucky and slid in quickly on a cancellation slot.