What prep do members here do should electricity be withheld because of weather tantrum or human malice? I have a few generators to keep the fridge and heat on. Need several due to having two distinct and distant electric services. Never been out here more that a bit less than 24 hrs., fingers crossed. House we live in is all electric, other buildings are all E or propane heat. Supply of wool blankets and near expiration can food round it out nicely. Just did quarterly test of the electron pumps and found some issues, more fun.

Well, I've gotten all but one set of windows covered in plastic in the rear. Our house was built in 1927 and is not exactly air tight. The last one is in my office room. Got rained out, so maybe next week it'll be dry. I'll take the rain, though. It hasn't really gotten cold yet, so I don't think I'm oozing dollars out my office windows or anythjng. Some leaves on the roof in a corner need to be taken out. But the rest is winter ready.

CDF

We have two cords of wood for the fireplace and cooking if need be but we also have NG hooked up to the Barbi. Just bought a solar cooker too.
In a perfect world I'd have solar on the roof but we don't, yet.
I'd also like a generator. There's some new er generators out there that will run on 3 fuels, I'd like one of those.

I have an Ego Nexus power station which will run the whole house/necessities for 24 hours on the same batteries my lawnmower, snowblower, and lawn tools use. I can be fully recharged in 2 hours from a gas powered, super quiet generator. so that's my plan - run the house on batteries during the night and recharge the batteries while the gas generator takes over the job in daylight hours.

I have found in past power outages that being quiet is a good idea. People who have not prepared hear the generator and see the lights on and come ask if they can run a cord to you for free electricity. Hard to say no to neighbors especially if they have kids but in a longer term loss of power I'd have to say no.

VooDoo

I have a box of strike anywhere matches, some Día de los Muertos candles, and a bottle of brandy.

CDF

I have 9kw of solar but need to decide on and buy a battery. Our last gas appliance is our stove and that’s going away next week for an induction stove. We have good insulation and a wood stove with about a cord of wood right now. Rain barrels and a big ten gallon gravity water purifier.

I can't afford generators and the like. But I have a gas water heater that doesn't require electricity to work. My plan is to fill jugs of hot water and place them under my twin size bed. I'll throw a king-size comforter over it all to keep the heat in. I'll sleep on top of the comforter with a bunch of blankets on top of me. I have a propane Camp Oven for cooking.

I'm really fortunate! Part of the reason we bought this house was to keep my in-laws out of the assisted-living/nursing home/funeral home pipeline as long as is practical. The onset of the Pandemic in 2020 was a spur for me to consider emergency prepping more seriously, and this house has given me a chance to rework the slap-dash preps I had before with a bit more wisdom and intent.

When we bought this house in 2022, we realized its potential for installation of solar panels (our prior house had too much tree cover). When we had the panels installed, we added a storage panel (battery system), because local codes are such that solar panels without a storage bank won't do any good if the electric grid goes down. The battery system is configured to power the refrigerators, microwaves, a couple of key light circuits, and the fan for the furnace (gas heat). Sadly, the water heater is electric, but we can heat water in a microwave or over a fire in an outdoor pit.

My wife bought a gas (LP) grill last summer, so we have multiple cooking options (also including a fire pit and a Coleman backpacking stove).

A few years ago, I started building a small supply of water, and added to that early in 2023, until we had the original (neglected to the point of it being a hazard) pool replaced. I realized that I have, depending on season, between nine and twelve thousand gallons of water that is almost potable, especially if I run it through a good filtration system. I have a set of Berkey filters and a couple of food-grade plastic buckets ready if I need to create a big water filter (ten or fifteen minutes of work).

We even have a couple spare cans of beans and a couple of down sleeping bags in a closet somewhere...

Those gravity fed water purifiers are great and have charcoal filters you can reuse. I also have those hiking filter straws. The straws are good for a few thousand gallons of water. Our pool is 20K gallons so were' good on water but I still buy a six pack of gallon purified water bottles at costco.
Been also buying like six packs of beans and vegetables that have been packed with sea salt water you can use for your freeze dried stuff.

We heat mostly with wood, and I've got a 2-burner coleman stove I can use with a grill-sized propane bottle for cooking. Water I can filter from the brook. My biggest worry is that the food in the chest freezer thaws out, but it is downstairs which is never all that warm anyhow.

I always tell my wife, "you can't have too many beans". She strongly disagrees. Have a military tent heater/stove that runs on diesel, were going to replace a wood stove with it but liquid fuel inside is a bit worrying. Long term plan is for Spring to arrive.

Yeah well when the power goes out you gotta cook your meats. Then salt and dry the meat into jerky. Unless you have multiple back ups.
I also just got a tripod pot hanger. It has three legs and you hang a pot off it over a fire to cook with. Got the cast iron pot already.
I guess if the NG goes bye bye I can cook with wood or the solar dish. Now if I could hook up my solar dish to track the sun like telescopes do I wouldn't have to stand there and move it. The sun actually moves across the sky pretty fast.,