How often do you have power outages and how do you prepare?

[wa1t1ngFuture]

maybe you use a candle or a tool to make electricity or a flashlight

[Goforit1010]

I live in a suburb right outside a major city in OH. Our power goes out several times a year - like 6-7 times anywhere from a couple minutes to a day+. After putting up with this crap from our electric company, we decided enough was enough and spent the $$$ to install a whole house generator exactly 1year and 1 week ago today. Within 5 days of it being installed, it fired off - because of a power failure. Since then, it has run 7 times due to a loss of power.

We have multiple flash lights, 2 kerosene heaters, oil lamps, and other things to help us get by during power outages. Since last year, none of those things were needed.

We have new neighbors on our one side. We told them about the generator and that it DOES run every week on its own as a test for about 20 minutes. They asked if the power goes off that often? Oh yeah. They've been here now for about 8 months. They're thinking about doing what we did too.

[DCooper]

I have power failures fairly often where I live. I just ponied up and bought a 5800 watt generator and wired in a 220 plug to backfeed the box with. So when the power goes down, all I have to do is flip the main off, plug in the genset, fire it up, and flip on the breaker to the 220 box, and voila ! everything works normally. The generator will run about 8 hours on a tank of gas, so it's not like I have to be constantly filling it up either.

[DCooper]

No sooner did I post that, and yesterday my power went out. I ran the house off the generator for a few hours last night till I crashed out, then again this morning and afternoon, till the power came back on about 2pm.

[wa1t1ngFuture]

lol😂😂

[mandyfire98]

I have scented candles all over my apartment. I'll use that for light.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Really rarely. Maybe once a year for a couple of minutes

[Caunsos]

Rarely but I have a ups uninnerruptalbe power supply i have many devices plugged in to so I can safely power the my off in the case of an outage and battery power lanterns.