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Historically the most commonly arising emergency in your dwelling is  a town-wide power outage, oftentimes for many hours, now and then for many days. That’s not surprising given an ancient and over-needed power grid. We are far more reliant upon electrical power in the home than most of us realize. Just   count the total electrical plugs in your house or apartment and see how many are occupied with plug-ins.

The following are a handful of ways you can ready yourself:

Emergency Lights

Flashlights – Have at least one for each person. If battery operated, replace  batteries each year; if they are the rechargeable type, then keep them recharging around the clock or do so every week or so. Better yet, use self-powered flashlights (solar, pull-string or hand-crank, shake). Best location to store a flashlight is next to your bedside.

Automatic Systems – There are a plethora  of automatic lighting systems that have batteries that can be recharged. They remain  plugged into an electrical outlet, and automatically turn on when electricity goes out. These range from individual flashlights to dual spotlights. Best places to install them: hallway(s), kitchen, basement, garage or carport

Lanterns – Long ago, kerosene  or oil lamps were commonplace, but also more common were house fires caused by these lamps falling.  In today’s society, thanks to new technologies, there are many types of self-powered rechargeable LED lanterns  Dynamo, solar and sometimes both.

Keep the power going in an emergency

Generator – In the suburbs and rural  areas, it is not rare to own a backup generator; gas, diesel engine, propane. The size can  vary from auxiliary to large enough to supply power everything in the house. Pretty difficult for urban dwellers, though, in particular those living in apartments. But…