Your question is offensive because it screams OUTSIDER! Who do you think you are to come to Vermont and dare question the way things are done here? If you see something, no matter how ridiculous it seems to you at first, second, third, or even the hundredth glance -- hell, even if you've studied the subject matter or whatever it is, in great detail over the course of a storied career -- keep your coddled, privileged, uninformed, elitist, and patently "un-Vermont" ideas to yourself. You are and always will be a know-nothing flatlander.

You should have asked which brand and size generator you should buy, from whom, and what a fair price is for installing it. Don't think about cause-based approaches to problem solving at this scale, think about creative reactive work-around "fixes" to perpetually disruptive conditions and you'll be fine. A good test for whether you're doing it right (and well) is if your process begins seeming repetitive and starts feeling like you're in a "death by a thousand paper cuts" spiral. Common tells or giveaways that you've arrived at "right mind", are when you stop saying out loud "WTF," or "You've got to be f%&$ing kidding me", etc., and just think it, like a stoic might.

Oh yeah, welcome!