Because preparedness simplified is more achievable
Because preparedness simplified is more achievable
A natural gas pipeline exploded the evening of 5 March 2021 in an upper middle-class neighborhood of northwest Harris County, Texas. Earlier in the day, a fiber optics crew had broken a gas line. The gas company came out to…
Put your dryer lint to good use! Make some fire starters! I had collected dryer lint and cardboard egg cartons for a long time, intending to make fire starters but kept procrastinating making them. They were cluttering up my laundry…
A butane stove is one of the most useful and practical ways to cook indoors when the power is out. A butane stove is a tabletop gas stove with one burner. The stove comes in a plastic carrying case smaller…
Canned heat (generally referred to as “Sterno”), and the stoves to use it, can be purchased in large sporting goods stores, discount stores, or online. A folding Sterno stove costs between $8 and $14, is very compact, and will hold…
There are many ways to cook when the power is out, but most need to be used outdoors. So what do you do when you don’t have a wood burning stove or wood fireplace and it’s dark or raining, snowing,…