A good friend of mine is experiencing a grid down scenario right now, living without power for two days. Link Here. The food in their refrigerator is spoiling and had to be moved to a refrigerator at their work. There is no hot water and it has been sweltering hot and humid since the storm. Ameren Missouri is still trying to fix the grid as I type this. This scenario is pretty common in the area, but my friend realized too late that a few precautions would have made this scenario easier to deal with. First, having a backup generator would have saved them hundreds of dollars in groceries (they just stocked up from Costco). The gas stove is still functional, but it is electric start so the oven part of the stove is complicated and potentially dangerous to light with fire, making it less usable. Hygiene is difficult at best, the hot weather has made cold showers a little easier to deal with. I want to ask the community what kinds of preparations they have for aftermath of a storm of this nature, how they deal with inconveniences and maybe some hacks they would like to share to deal with a loss of power for a few days.
Submitted July 14, 2016 at 11:28PM by yuppiecruncher http://ift.tt/29M8dEp preppers
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