Powering up is the new status symbol

Have a little cash lying around? Well, those in the know are investing it in generators. A story about how South Florida's well-heeled are buying mega-generators is so...well, so Miami. C'mon, where else would those noisy contraptions make such a statement?
Honestly, I don't think you have to be rich to buy one of those biggies. A couple I know who live in a pretty regular home in a pretty regular neighborhood bought a generator to power their entire house a few months ago. They were without electricity for almost a week after Wilma and couldn't stand the heat, not to mention the noise from everybody else's generators.
We don't have one of those mega-g, but we do have two smaller ones, an old and a new. My husband takes care of them as if they were the family pets. He's even got some elaborate system to store gas and keep us safe. No one wants to rough it anymore, I guess.