How to Prepare for Power Outages

Photograph: Scott Heins / Getty Images. Article by Tushar Nene. Wired – November 6, 2021.

Whether there’s a flood or a fallen tree, your power will go out eventually. Here’s how to prepare for an outage that lasts minutes, hours, or days.

I live in the Philadelphia area, and that puts me in the direct line of fire for two major water-type attacks. We get the remnants of hurricanes in the summertime and what’s known as nor’easters in the winter. (For those not from the Northeast, that’s a cyclone of cold frozen hatred that hovers up our coast.) Sure, they each bring their own brand of natural strife, but they also make us vulnerable to every geek’s nightmare: the dreaded power outage. And since my place fully runs on electricity (no gas or oil), I’ve had to develop a playbook for those dark times. […]

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