PCWorld: Tips for Weathering Power Outages
As a central-California resident, I’m accustomed to a couple of flavors of weather–mild and not-as-intensely-mild-as-it-was-last-week. Yet this week we’ve been getting hammered with real, honest-to-god weather–hail, buckets of rain, high winds, thunder, lightning, and the occasional flurry of toads. And, because our power lines remain above ground–as the early decades of the 20th century intended–the power went phut and I spent much of the day in the dark.
But I was prepared. And you can be too with these few tips for what to do before and during those dark hours.