Not sure if this is the right category to post this under, but...
The night before last I got a chance to try out my lighting preps. A car hit a power pole about a mile up the road and knocked out power to 2000 homes in my town. Power was out for about two hours. It gave me an excuse to light up some candles, some oil lamps and some battery lamps. All I know is that if we ever get hit by an EMP, I hope it's in cool weather... those oil lamps put out some heat!
I have lamp oil, kerosene, plenty of candles, three 20 pound tanks of propane and about a dozen one pound propane canisters. The big hole in my lighting preps, as I found out, was solar-rechargeable "D" cells to power my electric lanterns. They put out so much more light and run so much cooler. Plus, they're a lot safer. I think the next thing I'm going to try as far as my PAW lighting is going to be a bunch of those solar powered lawn lights. Just stick 'em out in the backyard during the day, and bring 'em in at night.
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