Outage Prep
Most of what decides how bad an outage feels is settled before it starts, and most of the rest is settled in the first hour.
This section is about that hour and the days after it. What to do first when the power goes. How long food actually keeps in a fridge and a freezer, against the USDA thresholds rather than guesswork. How to hold heat in a house through a winter outage. How to get water when the pump is electric. How to keep a phone and an internet connection alive when the neighbourhood cell site is running on its own battery.
It also covers the parts nobody plans for: what breaks when the power comes back on, the difference between a rolling blackout and a brownout, and how long outages typically last where you live, using utility reliability data rather than anecdote.
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No articles in this section yet. They are in production and will appear here as they are published and fact-checked.