Hey guys, I don't write that much, but I think people should learn from our mistake. I live in Richmond, VA and a storm "Gaston" hit us hard monday night. I live in a part of town that was hit the worst. We lost power around 6pm monday night, so we went to get the generator. I have dogs, cats and 3 ferts. I quickly got the ferts down from their bedroom upstairs, being afraid it was going to get way too hot too fast. The power flickered on and off for about 3-4 hours. It was still very cold in my house as I keep pretty much like and "ice box". Around 10pm still no power so I sent my husband for the generator. He got back with everything around 12am. We hooked the fridge up, a light and a fan to keep us cool. I let the fur kids out in their play pen in the kitchen knowing that the linoleum floor would keep them cool. They played for a while and around 2am I put them up for the night and laid down on the couch to sleep with them, my husband laid on the love seat. Here comes the lesson of a life time......! My husband set the generator up in the garage with the huge 2 car garage door open and the exhaust facing out the door. The door from the house to the garage was completely closed! We were lucky to get out of the house around 7:30am tuesday morning. We had a Carbon Monoxide level of 600ppm(fatal level) in the house.(the firemen would not even enter the house with out their oxygen masks). As soon as I realized it was not the Tylenol PM I took at 2am to help me sleep I got out of the house and my husband got the ferts out as well as 1 cat. He managed to let the dog out side in the back yard, but I still had 3 more cats in the house. We were rushed to the hospital and we were there until 10am Wed morning on Oxygen until 3am Wed. morning. Some friends and family went to the house later and got all remaining cats out and opened all windows. I have only GOD to thank that none of my babies were at all effected. Talked to the vet immediately and he assured me that they would be ok, because they were showing no signs and are so low to the ground. Please place generators completely outside. Everyone that has heard our story can't believe it got so bad. They all thought that it would have been fine to place the generator where it was. If my father-in-law had not called us Tues. morning we would not be here to tell this story. PLEASE PLEASE be safe as I know there is another Hurricane coming. Please hug all your fur kids tonight and count your blessings that they and you are ok! Sorry for the Long post. Thanks for listening, Jamie [Posted in FML issue 4624]