How to prepare for power outages

And what is that compared to trying to replace an RTX 3080?

Let it be Light

The worst part of a break is when night falls and the winter months can come early in the evening. Without energy your place is surrounded by darkness, and basic tasks like walking into the kitchen can cause slips, bumps, and unnecessary injuries in general.

The first thing I have at my disposal — in strategic places around the house — are LED streetlights. They are low cost, use very little power and can last for months without replacing the batteries. Place one next to a ladder or on a kitchen counter to safely navigate the house now surrounded. And if you have to go somewhere else in the house? They are portable. While it’s important to be able to cross your place safely, the side effect is to eliminate the need for a flashlight app on your phone, which is usually a vampire battery.

And while you’ll probably have to make better friends with your analog entertainment, placing a flashlight next to your favorite sofa or chair creates a comfortable corner to read right away in the dark. And if you have more than enough, you have a lighted gaming surface for board RPGs or board games (that’s everyone must always be in stock).

Otherwise, I have a couple of shaken flashlights, which are based on human power, instead of double A’s. Shaking the flashlight moves a magnet back and forth from the coil to store the charge in a capacitor, and you’re done! An electric light. They’re not only effective, they’re also fun for kids, and if nothing else gives you a solid reason to thank Michael Faraday and the lucky stars of the world for his legendary work on electromagnetism.

Next on the list is something from an older school: a candle. It seems obvious, but don’t act like you don’t have an extra heart container. The Legend of Zelda back in the day. Having candles (and, of course, matches or lighters) can light up a path again to get you where you need to go. Granted, you know, it’s fire, so you’ll have to pay attention to them unlike LED streetlights, but they’re cheap, they burn a bit, and I dare say they give it a visual and olfactory atmosphere. .

I’m using a scent that’s called right now Black Tea and Lemon because I have great taste. Unfortunately, I have a limited edition A1 steak smell, so you know, you can find everything that floats in your bowl.

If you have a fireplace, making a fire is an easy and inexpensive way to light a room as well as heat it when the mercury starts to go down. If you have gas or oil heat, it may not be too much of a problem for you, but I have an electric heat pump, so my living room fireplace is the place for the power outage.

In the winter I always try to have a wooden rope available to light in my inventory or along with the initial cubes, but if you don’t have a light and you don’t have a Human Torch, that can add a level of difficulty. And that’s why I keep paper phone books instead of posting them. Sure, “You have the Internet,” but the thin pages of phone books do a great job of turning them on, especially if you store the wood outside and it’s still not completely dry.