For power outages around here, I use the same clip-on LED-fobs that I've started stocking for Feral. The coin cells powering them are lithium, so their shelf life is probably only about 3 years, but they're inexpensive and give me enough light to not trip over anything and to see what's on the desk in front of me. Anything above "reading light" or "make a sandwich light" is overkill for me (your mileage may vary).
There are candles in the house, but the last time those were used was decades ago.
My main annoyance during power outages is dealing with all of the computers in the house. Everything has a UPS, so if the outage is only five or ten minutes, we're fine... but at the ten minute mark, I'm running around trying to safely shut everything down (because I don't have "powerchute" set up on these machines and wouldn't trust it even if it _was_ set up due to the specifics of the UPSs around here).
Most outages here are about 5-15 minutes, but every once in a while there's one that lasts for hours or longer. The last really big one that I recall was in the late 1990s when an ice storm took out a major power corridor in the province (and in the next one over; it was a big storm). I seem to remember that there was one more recently than that, but I'm forgetting the details if so.
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Date: 2016-03-14 08:01 am (UTC)There are candles in the house, but the last time those were used was decades ago.
My main annoyance during power outages is dealing with all of the computers in the house. Everything has a UPS, so if the outage is only five or ten minutes, we're fine... but at the ten minute mark, I'm running around trying to safely shut everything down (because I don't have "powerchute" set up on these machines and wouldn't trust it even if it _was_ set up due to the specifics of the UPSs around here).
Most outages here are about 5-15 minutes, but every once in a while there's one that lasts for hours or longer. The last really big one that I recall was in the late 1990s when an ice storm took out a major power corridor in the province (and in the next one over; it was a big storm). I seem to remember that there was one more recently than that, but I'm forgetting the details if so.