Los Gatos now keeps two electrical calendars. The first is the ordinary one every town keeps: panels aging, loads growing, chargers arriving. The second belongs to the mountain edge: the red flag days when the utility de-energizes the lines above town and the Lexington Hills routes go dark by announcement, sometimes for days, while downtown keeps its lights.
That second calendar has reorganized the trade here. Generator hookups moved from rarity to staple, specified properly with interlocks and transfer switches or improvised dangerously with cords. Surge protection acquired a local argument, the restoration surge when a road's motors restart together. And the panel conversation merged with the shutoff conversation, because a house planning to island itself needs to know exactly what its service can carry.
The homeowner discipline follows the calendar: do the hookup work in the quiet months, with permits and inspections unhurried; print the load calculation before fire season, not during it; and treat any electrician who will wire a generator without a transfer method as having answered your most important question about him.
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