The Staten Island Ferry is up and running... Cranes are now moved the scattered recreational boats to marinas...

John in Kansas is correct... A "generator" ain't the end-all-be-all to getting pumps to work... Gas pumps don't plug into the wall... They are hard wired into circuit breaker panels and in order to have a generator provide the power to run them it also needs to be hard wired into those panels... That sounds easy but it isn't... It involves another device that acts like a teeter-totter and allows voltage from only a single source: line or generator but not both... These are tricky to wire correctly and need to be inspected before cranking up the generator...

In most cases the line voltage has to be interrupted to install the generator... In this case the line voltage is interrupted but no electrician in his right mind would hard wire a generator into a panel without permits and inspection or the fear that in the middle of the job the line voltage would be restored and get blown the heck up...

Some thing ain't as easy as folks think...

B~