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If you have home heating with Propane or NG, find a generator setup that uses that, it's a no brainer. Much better than having to go out and fill up 44549659865035695685963 cans of gas or diesel fuel during a storm.
My parents have a 500 gallon propane tank under their yard for home heating and I got a conversion kit for their 1980's Coleman 5000 watt generator. It's not as seamless as some of the kits shown in the above post, but it beats having to fill it every so often, or having to run out for fuel. Luckily I didn't lose power and neither did they. I just have a small gas generator for running the fridge and freezer.
I fix small engines as a side gig, and as a reminder make sure you change the oil in these things every 50 hours of run time, 100 hours if it has an oil filter, and make sure the oil is full. Last hurricane I was brought a bunch of generators with seized engines due to being run low on oil.
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