With the storms that went thru yesterday, we lost power while I was at work. I work nights, 1+ hour drive from home. When I had a chance to check my phone, power had been off for 3+ hours already. I called my wife and she said she wasn't comfortable hooking up the generator. I checked National Grids outage map and it said power should be back on around 9 PM, this was at 7:45, so I gave her some direction to at least move a little water, something is better then nothing. Well 9 PM came and went, now their map said 11:15. I got out of work about 11:30, still no power, website saying 1:15 AM restoration. I was home around 12:45, but not wanting to drag out the generator at that hour, I used the 110 AC outlet in my car with an extension cord to run my return pumps. 1:15 came and went, still no power. Then the next update saying 3:15. At this point I hooked up the generator and got everything running. Now they update the map again saying it would be 5:15 AM. So my tanks went almost 8 hours with just scooping and pouring water back in, then ran the generator the rest of the night. I did lose 1 fish, my Powder Blue Tang. All else seems to be doing okay. Guess I'm lucky only lost the 1 fish. Think I really need to look into a whole house auto start set up.