7 Cool Tips to Prepare to Survive a Summer Power Outage
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- The risk of a summer power outage is a real threat that is worth preparing for. Our main focus tends to be on surviving a winter power outage but special attention should also be paid to the unique threat of a power outage in the extreme summer heat.
In this video, we explore 7 areas that you may want to focus on to help you prepare in the event you lose electricity in the hot months.
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Love the dampen sheet idea. When I was young I always washed my hair before bed but didn't dry it. The wet head kept me much cooler.
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We lived in Coolidge Arizona when the temperature was above 123 Fahrenheit for over a week. I had a kiddie pool in the front room, spray bottles and a hand held fans. Years ago they would bring beds outside and sleep outside.
Living in Arizona, keeping cool ESPECIALLY in a power outage is a must for me. Two personal cooling ideas: USB rechargeable fans that fit around your neck with two flexible 3" fans you can aim at your face and neck. Most have 3 speeds and will keep you cool for hours. I also keep a supply of the instant ice packs used for first aid. But they will also keep your face and neck nice a cool for several hours in a power outage. If you have a heat-sensitive medical condition or get over heated these can be a fast-acting life saver.
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In the old days when electricity was not around my grandmother told me they wet light blankets or sheets and hung them over the screen doors or over windows so air blew on the damp material and only cool air came into the house.Plus in extreem heat, you put (plastic now days) or oilcloth ,or water proof cloth, over your table then hung very damp sheets over the table down to the floor ,under the table you put a blanket with pillows for the kids to lay on to keep cool have this set up in drafty area so air can flow past to cool the wet sheets. .....PS I am 76 and grew up part of my life WITHOUT ELECTRICTY so hope my Grandmothere wisdom is handy for the bad days I know it has been handy when the grid went down now and then.
I use rechargeable work lights, recharge from usb (solar). I use the fans (even when there’s no power outages).
Thanks, Kylene, for mentioning my wet sheet method! Love you guys! Have you ever thought of making a DVD set of your prepping videos, in case something ever happens to the internet?
Insulate your home. Roof insulation, double glazing, draft exclusion, shade. All these passive methods are the most effective both in summer and winter.
I've showered right before bed and slept with the damp towel on me. It works.
I believe all we need to survive is water, food and a bit of shelter. With water, you can hydrate, keep cool and clean, with food, you can fill your tummy, and shelter, have a place to stay safe from danger of weather.
If you have a place to garden do so, just make sure you have access to water "storage".
Polar Cloths were available at my local Ace Hardware. They are AWSOME to help you keep physically cool.
Late but adding this I'm not a dress wearer for daily wear but a loose long dress proved a god send I could spritz it with moisture and really feel relief during the real heat of the day.
Also having a solar panel and a DC power fan just splice together its great. One last thing, I hung blackout curtains Lined With Reflective Emergency Blankets over my windows.. really wonderful way to block sun and heat. Thanks so much for all you do.
Don't know how applicable this would be to most folks, but my medical bed has a plastic topped mattress, which gets REEEALLY sweaty if the room is warm. Consider a cotton-topped mattress if youre buying new, or use a cotton mattress pad cover if you can't afford a new mattress.
As a Floridian who has been through tens on hurricanes:
1) Put water jugs in the freezer two days before the event. When your refrigerator loses its cool after you lose power, put your food in the freezer. Once that's warm, drink the water and grill/eat your food. Block party/BBQs are common a few days after the power goes out.
2) Prepare to sweat. Profusely. You will take a bath in your bed every night from it. There is nothing hotter than baking in your house in the 90+ degree Floridian sun with 100% humidity with the aluminum/steel storm shutters absorbing that heat in. (The evaporating stuff in this video won't work because the air is already super-saturated with water) The sound of the flies and insects makes it psychologically feel worse. Relief will come from taking showers. Often. I'd also recommend not having leather couches because you will stick to them.
I live in Houston. So I've been through power outages in both winter and summer (of course winter typically isn't bad). Preps for the summer? Window screens!! We have mosquitoes and keeping windows open with no screens invites in alllllllllll of the mosquitos. If you space in a freezer, keep frozen water bottles. Those can be used for a number of things in a power outage in the summer. And if you have hard floors, sleep on them at night. You're at the lowest part of the house so you're in the cooler air and hard floors will basically draw the heat out of you (for lack of a better phrase). Don't forget that moving mechanical things, power sources, and light sources do produce their own heat as well. It may be minimal in some cases but it does add up. Winter typically isn't very bad at all. I've gone without power before in a few of our winters. The basic preps will do. As far as keeping warm my number one suggestion is a bunch of covers. Sheets, blankets, whatever. But you MUST have a Woobie (a military poncho liner). Those are the Great Creator's gift to the infantry. Comfy enough to sleep with when it's warm and awesome for keeping you warm and toasty when it's cold outside.
Cooling with off Grid A/C
I created an “off grid” air conditioner for my property. The property was not meant to be “off grid”, but the power company wanted $75K just to bring power to one corner of the property and another $75K to take it to where I wanted it.
I converted an evaporative cooler to run off 12-volt power. Replaced the submersible water pump to 12V, and replaced the blower fan with a 12v radiator fan from a car. The water supply is gravity fed from a 5-gallon bucket placed at a higher level than the cooler.
This can raise the inside humidity, but I have seen a TH-cam video from a guy in Australia that solved the problem. He vented the air intake to the outside using a large size duct work with a “heat exchanger” (like that found in a furnace), then a fan blows air across the heat exchanger to cool the room. Humidity is expelled outside. I’m presently research ways to capture the condensed moisture and returning it to the 5-gallon bucket.
P.S. I was going to make one large solar system that could power the three small cabins we built, the main dining hall, the workshop and anything else. My son brought up that that would have a “single point of failure”. If one part would break, the entire system would be down. Therefore, each building has its own power system which includes 2 solar panels, one charge controller and two 12v deep cycle batteries. All parts are interchangeable with several backups in storage incase of a part failure.
I’m now researching wind turbines for additional power during the winter months.
Here's a thought. Instead of buying cheap stick-built tract homes that collapse in a good breeze, spend the same amount of $ on a smaller, much more sustainable igloo style. They require little energy and stay put in a storm. There are not many left of the only kind of dwelling I prefer over igloos: authentic well built Vics. If necessary, tolerate living in one while it's under renovation. Not fun but it won't kill you either. Mine is 115 yrs old. Tall narrow double-hung windows. Deep wraparound porch. Alpine roof so steep its sq footage is 2 1/2 times the house footprint. Deep eaves. Heavy duty steel roof. Two storeys so if things get too hot, you just live downstairs. 12' ceilings. Heavily insulated now. Of course I had to get the essential mechanics all redone but the custom contractor I used swore that my house would be the last one standing if TinyTown gets hit by a major weather event. Yes, I had to plow $40K into renovations the minute I moved in, but the house also only cost me $14.5K at auction. Within a couple years it would've been too late for repairs. And I'm still not quite finished with some of the interior cosmetics. But for no more than $55K or so, I've already got a house that would go for well over $1M in most places. Salvageable Vics are worth the investment. But mainly my message is for people to stop throwing insane amounts of $ at huge junky, butt-ugly McMansions that cost a small fortune to run. America needs to reorder its priorities and learn to go for quality over glitz. Before I so much as turn on a single fan, it can be 100 degrees outside, but inside with all the standard passive methods used, it will only be maybe 76-78.
Another great video! We don’t have air conditioning atm so we’ve had a fair bit of practice keeping cool in the Australian summer heat. We have windows that open from the top and bottom to promote air circulation (hot air rises), we do the fans in windows too. Putting a sheet over couches (leather and fabric) stops sweaty skin sticking and getting irritated. If you have to work try to do anything physically active at the start and end of the day when it’s cooler and minimise activity in the middle of the day. Don’t underestimate the worth of having your house well insulated. Heavy white/light coloured curtains can help. I’ve even hung fabric painting drop sheets outside my windows on hot sunny days to stop the sunlight hitting the windows and heating up the house. The neighbours may think I’m crazy but at least I’m staying cool 😎
Wow. what state are you in ?
@@sundancer442 New South Wales. Last summer wasn’t too bad but the one before we had lots of days consistently over 46 Celsius, plus most of the state was on fire, so quite a few power outages.
Thanks so much for involving me in this great video! Such valuable info. When we lived off grid with no AC in AZ, it was tough sometimes, but being high desert really made it a lot better. Windy all the time and much cooler temps. Anyway, appreciate you sharing these ideas with us!
✌🏻from Prescott Valley
Thanks for addressing this important issue. Your information is always so well presented! Will you consider doing a video sharing how you coordinate with your adult children and extended family during a crisis? Any info on preparedness with adult children would be great! Thanks 😊
Yall rock. Thanks for everything
Thanks for all the great ideas!
Amazing...new hope in every video! Thanks for the links 🙂
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Always informational and helpful. Thank you for the video.
Thanks!
Your videos are so informative. Thank you so much for taking the time to pass on your knowledge. Can't wait to check out the items you have told us about!!!!
I am new to your channel. I love the videos, they are helping me a great deal!
You're really blessed with all those grandchildren!
I was searching for this kind of video a couple months ago and there is hardly anything for this! Just cold weather power outages. Thanks! Our son uses expensive refrigerated medications. If this is important for a family, it is a good idea to have a mini fridge that can run off your generator. We can replace our food, but daily medications can be a lengthy hassle to try to replace (if it can be done at all). We also have a cooler that can plug into the cigarette lighter outlet in our van, and it has both cooling and heating options. We use it for his meds when we travel, and we also prep it when a big storm is coming to be sure we don’t have to open our big fridge to retrieve his meds.
Great information, very useful
Always enjoy your videos and always learn something new. You're a great team and to be admired for working together and with your family. You sound like a great group of people.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Meant to say, your idea of the frozen water jugs on the bottom of the freezer is great. We didn't have a fridge but an 'ice box' at our cottage when I was young and it always worked...without electricity! Your idea is a modern ice box...if the electricity goes out!
Lots of great ideas in this video, thanks! I don't have any novel ideas but in a power outage during the summer a few years ago, I did all my errands and chores in the early morning and at dusk, rested indoors in the mid-day hours with all the blinds closed, used a "personal" hand-held battery-operated fan, ate only food that did not need any cooking, I raised one window in each room up all the way and then raised one window on the opposite side of the room up just a few inches to help better "pull" the hot air out of the room, and slept in the basement where it was cooler :-)
Another great video with great tips and very useful information much appreciated.
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@@TheProvidentPrepper well you deserve it. I can't tell you much you have helped us. You are so level headed, not fear mongering, and non-political about things. It's nice to know there are such caring people in the world.
Great ideas! I liked the wet sheet method. I bought two portable fans recently...trying to get prepared.
Where did you get your fans k
My son has MS and is bedridden. The wet sheet idea will help alot. Thanks
Heat is devastating to him.
Oats are one of my main storage foods. You don't actually need to cook them so in the summer, even with power, I just eat them cold.
“As drought conditions bake the upper reaches of the U.S. Plains, American farmers are now expected to harvest their smallest oats crop in records that go back to 1866.”
May I ask how you use your oats? I store them too. Currently, I'm really enjoying eating them lightly oven toasted, and mixed with peanut butter and raisins shaped into bars, kept in fridge. Really yummy with a small glass of cold milk in the morning.
@@greentree_ Oats, dried fruit (usually raisins or cranberries) and water. In the winter, I switch to boiling water to eat my oatmeal hot. Other fruits, brown sugar, honey, or maple syrup as I feel like it to mix things up. It's simple, super quick, and doesn't heat up my kitchen in the morning.
I just set up our Western Harmonics fan yesterday and it ROCKS! Yes it was a bit pricey, and it took forever to arrive due to the supply issue, but it was so worth the wait and I am so happy to have it during this current heat wave. When a cloud goes by it shuts off - that surprised me at first, DUH, solar...but the free energy is uplifting in this troubled world. I am hoping to get a storage battery so we can use it at night.
You guys are awesome. Sharing your knowledge is very much appreciated. ❤
This is awesome. So many people do Prep for winter but not summer
Thank you this is very usefull. Ellen from the Netherlands, Europe👍🙂
Awsome! Greetings from Sweden
Another great video. I live in Seattle, that had record setting heat - hot enough that our freeway broke up - seriously. After that crazy few days I bought a second solar generator to power my portable air conditioner. I will be incorporating some of your suggestions! Thanks again for all the hard work you do!
Which solar generator did you select?
Awesome advice as always. Personally if my power cuts off im gonna find some creek to hide in
Wonderful , I made a list
Your grid down cooking challenge is how most of Central America and part of South America lives on a daily basis lol. Nothing wrong with it.
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Something I have in my EDC is a hand fan to help keep me cool if I am away from home
Great knowledge you shared. We lost our air and for 4 days waiting for the repairman during the 107 days near SLC... I admit I was an angry bear a lot of the time. Shopping for hours helped, haha but moving air was critical so all the fans were set up. Then we remembered our camper parked inside the garage!! DUH!! We were not sleeping well being so hot but finally realized our camper was there and ready to be used... I slept right under the air blower... ahhhh.
Hi my friends how are you both doing? I'm prepping for 2022 Hurricane season.
I'm stocking up on solar panels and power stations. I already have a large and a small gas generator, but to run things inside in complete silence might be needed as well.
Life sucks without power!
We have usb fans for each of us. I also have a mini evaporative cooler. As well as thermo cooler for food usable with solar 12 v.
Very very professional video. My compliments. Hard to give additional tips, but I give it a try:
- usb chargeable closet lights, that auto switch of after a few minutes. I placed several around the house as an emergency light. In the cellar, the garage, the pantry, the bedroom... this way I can move through the house without carrying a flashlight or lantern with me all the time.
- power outage may come with a cooling problem AND a water chortage. In the long run, even 2 gallons per person might not be enough. I watched videos from India during a drought. Two gallons per person meant to people with babies and very young children that they had to do their dishes with dirty water. In south africa, everybody in the slums got 4 gallons per person during a drought... next, you realize that it is extremely difficult to store enough water in your house. Think of installing rain barrels, fish ponds, swimming pools around your house. Don't flush your toilet with drinking water, rather go outside.
hello i was learning from your video of storing foods in glass jars may i ask would wine glass jars with the cork be acceptable thanks..i meant to ask about wine glass bottles with narrow neck and with cork also i have wine bottles with the screw lids would like to know your advise
Don't make the mistake I did a few years ago and make garlic kale chips in your van!
Enough said!
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I wish I could afford a bigger generator, but being on disability and living in a small apartment there is only so much I can do. However I do have 2 mini power stations that can be charged by solar/usb/hand crank/usb-c/or by ac. I have several hand crank portable generators, solar chargers, power banks, solar battery rechargers, rechargeable batteries, USB batteries, solar and/hand crank flashlights & lanterns. I have solar lights, cooling towels, cooling blankets, air whirl a/c cup, solar & battery operated fans. I save for all my preps or ask for them for my birthdays/holidays. I has saved me money in the long run too.
Good on you! I'm not exactly swimming in $ either, but there's usually at least something we can do. And it all adds up. I even found a light invented for 3rd-world countries where all you have to do is pull back and forth on a rope to get 2 hours of light. Not only are those hand-cranked items more affordable, I figure they'll give us something to do and maybe burn off a little excess tension when there's no tv or radio! :p
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Just had empower batteries connected to 14 solar panels. Lots of backup power to run the house including ac.
I apparently have not been getting your notices of videos. Thanks for posting them I will have to go find them to see what you've done! FYI notices aren't all going out to us. I did get this one.
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I bought battery-powered fans from Walmart and they are actually a nice tabletop size. I have 2 years of batteries prepped, 20 cases of bottled water always, and a generator for my fridge and large freezer.
Hurricane Sally ruined a lot of Generac whole house generators.
@@abou8963 i don't understand what you mean?
When I was little the heat would go out occasionally. After the first time, we learned to put our sleeping bags on our bed during an outage. Warm rocks from the fireplace were wrapped in old towels or pillowcases and inserted a half hour b4 bedtime. That heated the sleeping bag and would continue to give off a little heat thru the night. Of course, it was waz hard to get out of that warm cocoon if the heat hadn't come back on by morning.
How about a proactive run to Home Depot and pick up some of those semi rigid roof insulation panels and glue them to the outside of your freezer? You could even double up on those or triple up or whatever.
How about prefabing a super insulating box to cover your entire freezer during a power outage?
Work it out!
May I please ask where you got your back up power for your PC and are they expensive?
What am I gonna do today you ask? Start losing this layer of insulative fat I've acquired!
It will help in summer but you'll miss it in winter.
I'm joining the party 🎉 don't have a/c at the moment in GA.
@@TheProvidentPrepper No it's not a fun party. Hot and sticky is rough. It's been better now cooling down at night.
having a cool shower just before you go to bed works too.
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What experience in summer? Hurricanes. North Carolina is a target for Atlantic hurricanes. First one I remember was cat 4 Hazel in 1954. Followed by a number of them over the years. Fran, Floyd, Florence are more that come to mind in recent years. Fran (1996), for example, took out the power for 2 weeks plus for many in my community. Fran is the reason why I have a propane kitchen stove. Since then, as things needed to replaced, converted to propane, when applicable.
Currently in the process of incorporating a Westinghouse 9500 dual fuel generator into our plans. In a week or so, the electrical work should be done to safely connect it to our home and to our bulk propane storage tank. Hoping it will be able to power our AC. May need a "soft start", which we'll have checked out by our HVAC folks after the 9500DF is operational. When our water heater fails, if not before, plan to replace it with propane powered on-demand.
Have many of the items you mentioned in place. As always, variables based on local conditions. For example, because of our high humidity in summer, evaporative coolers / swamp coolers don't offer much relief, if any. From what I understand it's great for those who live in a dry climate.
Water and hurricane grid down... As a part of our storm preps, we do the laundry before the storm arrives. An empty laundry basket, buys time before we have to deal with laundry and hauling water in a grid down. We keep a few cases of bottled water, as we have alternative water solutions for long term grid-down. Our storm prep routine includes filling up bath tubs for flushing, filling a 5 gal contractor style insulated water cooler with ice and water, filling AquaTainer 7 gal containers, filling a 2.5 gal plastic water dispenser to place beside each bathroom sink for personal needs (Walmart # 551210309), filling one or more waterbath canners and/or large stockpots that stay on our propane stove. Heat as needed or transfer smaller amounts to coffee pot or kettle.
Grid down and canning frozen food. In addition to being prepared with supplies and such, as you mentioned, there are two more issues to be considered. One is water. Canning requires a lot of water. It takes 3 quarts everytime I start canning to fill the pressure canner. Even more for waterbath. That has to be replenished as canning continues. Water is needed for food prep and hot pack canning. It's needed to wash jars before canning begins. May be needed to heat jars when other alternatives (I use my Excalibur dehydrator, others use dishwashers) are not available.
The second point is time. Unless there is enough generator power to keep foods cold long enough to get them in the jars you may quickly run out of time. Especially during the hot weather of hurricane season. Especially when you are trying to can meats and other foods that require 90 minutes under the pressure for your altitude. The clock starts when the meat begins to thaw, which has to happen before canning begins. Generally, frozen meats are not prepped for canning. Fat removed, often it has to be deboned and then cut into chunks. That has to be done when the meat is at least partly thawed.
Then the process from jar filling to removing jars from the canner that takes a considerable amount of time. Less with fruits and many vegetables. All of these may be more challenging if having to switch from an electric kitchen stove to some other heat source for canning. Not all burners are BTU friendly when it comes to canning. The side burner on a propane grill will likely have less BTUs, thus the processes will take longer. The backyard turkey fryer may have too many BTU's. Enough, in fact to warp a pressure canner. I have a SilverFire rocket stove than can be used for canning. It will be tedious and time consuming to feed it small pieces of wood, if I have to use it in grid-down.
Do you really have enough time to can what's in your freezer before it spoils? I found out last year, when I decided to reduce my reliance on our upright freezer that I wouldn't have enough time. With the hours of processing that was needed to can most of the meats and vegetables, I would have lost a considerable amount in grid-down. Today, I only keep a small amount of meat in the freezer. A few Cornish hens to roast and some meats to throw on the grill. What can actually be eaten or canned before it spoils. It is a holding place for meats, such as Thanksgiving turkeys that are bought on sale for canning after the holidays. Or large lots of frozen vegetables, bought on sale to be canned or dehydrated. (All the prep work has been done!)
That said, I do use our freezer for things that are not routinely canned. Extra breads, desserts, vegetables to be steamed and rendered fats to prolong their shelf life. Some of the space is used for soda bottles almost full of water. When frozen, these preserve the things that were taken from our refrigerator BEFORE the storm hit. Kept in an ice chest, these items will last several days, especially with some form of block ice. When the ice melts in the soda bottles, that's cold drinking water on those hot, humid, days.
In closing, good info on all 7 points of this video. I do hope people will take time to evaluate how they can best put each one of them into practice. We don't know how long before the next "I wish I had already ....." comes in our area. Seems that everyday, someone, somewhere is dealing with serious challenges.
Thank for the tip of using your Excalibur to prepare your canning jars. I never thought about using it for that purpose.
@@latriciacagle4873 Thank you for letting me know. I've used it, trays removed for several years. It holds a full canner load of qt or pt jars for my Presto 23. I keep a sheet of parchment paper on the floor of the Excalibur - 9 tray. (Held down with some craft store river stones.) That's good for drips and also catching bits that fall through the mesh trays when dehydrating. For jar heating I put the heat on high at the same time I start heating water on low in the canner. Gives time for both to come up to temp by the time I have the ingredients ready to go into jars for canning.
Hope this also helps.
Don't forget an old fashioned hand held fan. That slight air movement makes a big difference if there is no breeze.
Yes, I remember when almost everyone had a "church fan". It's easy to make one. Cut out a piece of cardboard from a cereal box in the size & shape desired. Staple it to a wooden tongue depressor (or equivalent from wood or plastic). A piece of cardboard, without the handle will work, too!
In a GRID DOWN situation Your GRAND-KIDS will NOT be having water fights on the trampoline. You will ALSO be trying to use the water from a swimming pool for other purposes!
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A smart idea I have seen is to freeze a bowl of water and put a coin on top of the freezer has sunk the food is probably not safe even if it has refroze.I like the idea of using a cooler.ina ice Storm I lost electricity for 10 days and kept the food in the trunk of the car outside in the cold.
My power went out just this last Friday evening until 2am! I struggled to heat up a small pot of ramen, then went to the bar where there was still power 😁
We bought 4 solar fan/lanterns.
Bamboo sheets are a little more expensive, but cooler to sleep on.
I have a question and I could figure out where else to contact you. I'm giving a class at my church and wanted to use a couple of your hand outs that I printed out from your web site a couple of years ago. Could I make copies of then and give them to my group?
Makes one confused when electric cars are being pushed. Exactly how is this supposed to work if our electrical grids are already stressed. Let's keep our gas cars!!!
Cooling with 12volt power.
I have been experimenting with 12-volt DC power for a number of years. I have had a “whole House” fan that I installed in the central hallway when I bought the house. A couple of years ago I replaced the 120v power to it to 12v DC. I removed the existing motor and fan and replaced them with a 12v radiator fan from a car and rheostat. (Easier than finding a 12v DC motor that would mount to the existing framework.) In the morning this can drop the inside temperature by about 10 degrees.
I have also replaced an attic fan with the same type of fan. This runs throughout the day and into the evening to cool the attic and thus will help keep the inside temperature down. The attic fan is controlled by a 12v timer and rheostat.
All this is powered by two 100 watt/ 12v solar panels, with a charge controller and power is stored in three 12v deep cycle batteries. Everything was purchased from Amazon, the exception of the batteries.
And in the winter this system powers a 12v auxiliary blower on my fireplace insert increasing the heat output by two to three times.
Also using an inexpensive power distribution panel (again available from Amazon) this will power a 300-watt inverter which powers an oscillating fan, will recharge my 18v batteries to my power tools and will also recharge my cell phone.
Note that converting from 12v DC to 120v AC has a power loss, but it works.
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Put a towel or blanket over those frozen water jugs to insulate the jugs from freezing. Also, a towel or blanket on top to fill in the dead space. Take one of those frozen bottles and put in the fridge. Look for dry ice but be careful and do not inhale the gases!
I have several ideas to survive a summer power outage, so I'll post each one separately.
Cooking with Sun Oven
To make the Sun Oven more efficient, I created a “lazy Susan”. I started with a 12” round mechanism, a base of 18” round plywood, and an 18” round top board. The top board would not hold the SunOven when the leg was extended, so I increased the size of that board to 24”x24” and removed some of the wood to keep the weight down.
This lazy susan makes it easier to keep aligned with the sun for max heating. In my location the internal temp can reach well over 400 degrees, so if I want to cook at a lower temp, it is easier to keep the oven slightly out of alignment with direct sun.
Although not absolutely necessary, I kept the center of gravity in the center of the lazy susan mechanism. Not hard on the 18” round base. When it came to the top, I marked the center of the top side to side. I then place the SunOven on the top board and marked its location, so that I would place the oven in the same position each time. The front to back is a little more complimented. Once the SunOven was in place on the top board, I used a PVC pipe under the board and rolled the board and oven back and forth until it balanced, marked the location side to side. Where the top to bottom line and the side to side lines crossed is the center of the lazy susan.
I didn’t like the Costco neck cooling deal, have had much better ones.
Is soaking towels in polyacrylic crystals basically using the same concept as the pre-made cooling towels for sale in stores?
It uses a lot more power to heat the cool in most cases
I suspect that the wet sheet trick would be less useful when the humidity is high.
Do the solar cookers create food odors? I'd like to be able to cook without attracting unwanted attention from afar.
I live in the desert and use our solar cooker regularly. There is usually no odor because most foods are cooked with a lid on the pot. It's not like a barbecue grill where you smell the neighbor's cooking burgers. Most solar cooking has no odor, however, baking bread can smell a bit, as you usually don't have a lid on the pan. Someone has to be within a foot or two of the cooker to smell the food.
We were without power for a week during a heat wave and what we learned was no one was prepared but us and we only had enough extension cords to help the neighbors on both sides so they didn't lose their freezer contents. What we learn was you never have enough heavy extension cords or tarps. We had a 2000 and a 3000 Honda gens and we store gasoline and diesel when it gets over 70 degrees you have to burp those cans every day and twice a day at 80 three times a day at 90 degrees fuel expands as it get hotter. What others learned was the value in having a gen even in the city. Accross the street a ways is a coffee shack they made a killing because they had a generator but they ran out of fuel after three days and no fuel without electric because of the pumps.
I live in the coastal northeast. I know I am the only person in my neighborhood with a generator and solar on the rear of my home. I'm a proponent of a minimum of 14AWG wire size extension cords, 25-50 feet in length for use with generators.
One thing I highly recommend is operating your cable modem/router on a UPS or other battery backup system. Your main power may be out but the cable signal lines may still be active unless the lines are broken from the storm. This means you should still have internet access. I primarily implemented this arrangement to protect my gear from intermittent power blips that was scrambling my system. Often the system would restart/reboot normally but other times it would take several hours to return to normal. No problems in over 5 years.
I live in a single story house. I have my preps in a large closet (one outside wall. I work full time, so I am not in the house during the day. What can I do to prevent the stored food from getting to 70 or 80 deg f during a long daytime power outage?
Well I was being a bit conservative… this is central Texas, so it could be 100 outside… I was thinking the house will warm up 10 deg per hour… so in three hour I could enter that range… btw I love your channel!!!
Do you think a sump pump can be run off of a power bank? That is my major concern if we have a long time power outage. I have a battery back up for the sump pump, but it is only good for a bit.
Hi Kimberly...it really depends on the horsepower rating of the pump. Most of the smaller power stations likely won't muster enough energy, or have enough storage to get the job done. Best to find out the horsepower rating, then connect back, or check with a manufacturer to see if they can meet the running watts, and especially the start-up requirement. You also need to have a pretty good guess as to how long that runs each day. Sounds like a significant concern to you. Let us know if you get that information and we can discuss further. Thanks for being part of the solution!
I'm concerned about summer. I'm more concerned about winter. It gets really cold here. It gets down to 0 or below.
How about doing one of these for people who don’t have money to buy the stuff you showed?
They gave several options that are free. Perhaps you should re-watch the video.
I never heard of wet sheet, but it's so logical. How do you cool someone's forehead during a fever? Cold wet facecloth.
@@doubles1545 perhaps you need to rewatch and make a list of all the expensive things they used.
Even those cheap dollar store hand held battery fans make a difference. Especially when combined with a misting spray water bottle.
I haven't been able to get the solar lights here in UK I will kp looking,I have a puck light and two push on Battery ones and a battery camp light ,I HAVE a small Barbaque or candles to cook ,I'm to scared to have gas bottle fire or Barbaque . Only HAVE a small £5,00 power bank to charge my phone or it will run my fan for 4 hrs so I bought another one the other day one for phone and one for fan as I can't afford solar generator ect.
When very hot I close windows put wet duvet or u can use sheets up on windows ,then close curtians,also if very hot put a damp tea tall or cloth in tepid water ring out and put on head and put clothes in tiped water ring out and wear ,also lay on floor or air bed as a touch cooler there ,if u have a tent then sleep in garden in tent at Ng safer if some one with you.If u haven't a tent ,go dollar shop and buy some ground sheets or a cheap make do tent ⛺ if they have one .they HV the cheap power bank to charge pH in dollar shop and a USB fan that fits in two and u can run the small fan and charge Ur phone they are £5,00 in UK I dnt kn how much they are in Ur shop where u are at ,although u Nd access to electric to charge in the first place ,so while my electrics on I make sure they are charged to the full each day ,I like the idea of the wet sheet I will HV to try that when tempt are high again soon thank you.Ive found sm Solar small power bank on line so will get my family to look into that for me thank
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Save and invest in a solar generator and solar panels. Look at battery/USB fans, USB camping lights or solar lights. Keeping your freezer full will keep it cold longer so fill empty spaces by recycling 2-liter pop bottles filled with water 3/4 full. Once they thaw you have cold water to drink. Try to open windows with cross ventilation to keep air moving.
Why do I have to get on a spam list to get a simple price on a water storage tank? Ridiculous!
Don't forget your swimming pool. Ours holds 2000 gallons of water.
I rent the house I live in, how can I get a power source to keep my electric on.
Instead of putting a huge Bluetti solar generator on my card, I realized I was better off with two somewhat smaller EcoFlow River 600 (watts) generators and a spare battery for each. Unit only weighs 11 lbs and will run anything up to 1200 watts with an even higher startup need. The bigger the stuff you use it for, of course, the less run time you'll get. But this is last-gen equipment so it's really coming down in price. My 2 gens with an extra battery for each only totaled around $800. With the solar panels I already had, I should be able to last almost indefinitely with minimum use. And with a free Prime trial, on Prime Day I found an entire NEW generator for only $150 this time! (Stay away from reconditioned gens). Another advantage to more samples of smaller equipment is that you can buy them bit by bit w/o having to go into debt. Most of these generators will age out in about 20 years, but don't worry - by then the technology will have advanced tremendously and will be cheaper too.
We just relax under a shade tree.....
Get an Aladdin kerosene lamp.
While great for light, they put out a LOT of heat. Not great during the summer.
I prefer simple kerosene lamps with a traditional wick. For a bright light, I prefer Colman camp fuel or propane lanterns.
@@oldtimerlee8820 The Aladdin lamp was the precursor to the Coleman lanterns. It was the first to use a mantle to create more light and less smoke or heat (per gallon of fuel) than the old kerosene wick lamps. They really are awesome, just less so during summer. And not outdoors. Outdoors is when you want the Coleman.
@@Oxnate Yes, I'm familiar with them. I was born on a Pre-grid farm in the days before REA brought power lines across our land. I still have my mother's oil lamp that sat on our kitchen table. And I remember the cracked mirror, on her dresser, from a hot Aladdin lamp being too close to the glass.
Have done early morning farm chores by kerosene lantern light. One of the tricks with oil lamps/lanterns is to learn how to properly trim the wick to reduce smoke and obtain the best light. Another is to use reflectors behind lamps.
Later in life, used Colman camp fuel lanterns, too. While it's not recommended I have used those indoors, as well. When more light was needed than could be provided by tradition lamps, lanterns and candles.
When we moved here, due to an electrical contractor foul up, we were without power for a month. During that time both oil lamps and Colman lanterns met our needs.
Put water bottles in freezer.
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