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Imagine a situation where your entire town or city is out of power for weeks. It happens quite often. You should be prepared for it.

You should have backup lighting for your home and a few battery operated lanterns.

In each of your emergency bags you should have:

This emergency communications guide will help you understand what options are available to you and your family to use during and after a disaster, should normal lines of communication be unavailable.

So many of us have become accustomed to having a cheap and nearly unlimited supply of electrical power available to us 24-7 that when a power outage happens, it becomes a disruptive event.

Short term outages of only a few hours or so are usually easy enough to handle, but what if the power doesn't come back for days, or weeks?

There are plenty of things you can do ahead of time to ensure that you can cope with an extended power outage without a majorly detrimental impact on your way of life.