Random Thoughts

[Succubus#2]

There's nothing dumb about buying a generator.

Not until scared hungry people hear it or smell it. Those people will assume, not unreasonably, that you are also well stocked with food and water and they will come and take it.
No doubt you'll manage to pop a few caps in their asses but before the day is out you and your family will likely be dead.
A better idea would be stay in the cellar with a few candles eating you stockpile of food and wait till the power returns.