Black outs.

[Pete Grey]

We have a similar range of back ups to SS, candles, hurricane lamps, wind up led lanterns and all lighting is led and can be run of a leisure battery through an inverter. But we do need more solar generation and a couple more leisure batteries to allow for short dull winter days.

As no mains electricity would cut out the central heating (mains gas) we have smokeless coal to last a year and probably enough lpg for cooking if we’re careful, more would be useful.

We also have a two camping gas lanterns (with spare mantles) that use the 206 cartridge, these run for about 8 hours and give out quite a lot of heat, two birds with one stone, so more cartridges would be good.

Summer blackouts will be awkward for the freezers, we have a generator and some petrol for power cuts, for a long term SHTF event we would cook or salt food as it thawed out.

I think that covers us pretty well, however its important to work out your needs before an event, small or large.

At the moment our thoughts are more on our water storage and the lack of rain.