{"id":9686,"date":"2015-07-03T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2015-07-03T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T14:19:36","slug":"how-to-prep-for-a-summer-power-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9686","title":{"rendered":"How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don\u2019t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage.<\/p>\n

However, a summer power outage carries its own set of problems. Foremost are heat-related illnesses and the higher potential of spoilage for your food.<\/p>\n

Even if you aren\u2019t convinced that hardcore preparedness is for you, it would still be difficult to argue against the possibility of a disaster that takes out the power for a couple of weeks.\u00a0Basic emergency preparedenss is important for everyone<\/a>\"\", not just us \u201ccrazy preppers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just ask the people who lived through the Derecho of 2012 how unpleasant it was. \u00a0Severe, fast-moving thunderstorms (called derechos) swept through\u00a0Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Washington DC.\u00a0Millions lost power,\u00a0an estimated 4 million for an entire week.\u00a0As if a week-long power outage wasn\u2019t miserable enough, that part of the country was in the midst of a record-setting heatwave during the time period.<\/p>\n

Also keep in mind that summer stresses our fragile power grid to the max, as everyone increases their usage of electricity to try and keep cool with air conditioners and fans. This ups the chances of an outage even when there\u2019s not a cloud in the sky.<\/p>\n

Back in 2003, a software bug caused an extremely widespread power outage in the middle of August. It was a very hot day, and increased energy demand overloaded the system. Because of the issue with the software, engineers were not alerted of this, and what should have been a small local outage turned into an event that took out power for over 10 million Canadians and 45 million Americans. I remember this one clearly because the little sub shop beside my workplace gave away all the perishable food that they had out at the time before it spoiled and I took home fresh sandwiches for my girls\u2019 dinner that night. We sweated uncomfortably through the next two days until the power was restored.<\/span><\/p>\n

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How to Prep for a Summer Power Outage Sometimes people think that a sumer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don\u2019t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage. However, a summer power outage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6156,4721,5837,1575,648,650,6960,768],"class_list":["post-9686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-daisy-luther","tag-grid-loss","tag-organic-prepper","tag-power-loss","tag-preparations","tag-prepping","tag-summer-power-outage","tag-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9687,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions\/9687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}