Thanks JZB.
For further clarification - what happens is that sometimes a hurricane hits the US early in the season --- and after that you have a devil of a time finding a generator in Belize - at all, for the duration of the season.
After Katrina it was about 18 months before you could buy a good sized one here.
After experiencing 6 weeks without power post-Keith, and what seems like weekly outages on a routine basis still, I can only say that having a generator is a really cool thing.