https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:05:52 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083080 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:40:54 +0000 MaryM 2083080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the most part, we usually are. If there's bad weather I make sure my phone is charging just in case the power goes out. and if all else fails, I can go out to my car to charge it further. </p> <p>We have a ton of flashlights left over from our wedding (we had a big box of them to help our guests find their cars) and we keep them in convenient places. And I usually have a few candles out on the coffee table and in the bedroom, but now that we're getting ready to move, most of those are packed.</p> <p>The worst thing for us is the cold. We have no back up heat source. But if it got really bad, I can see which houses in my neighborhood have chimneys and could knock on some doors. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083072 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:35:59 +0000 Mae 2083072@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not particularly. We do have a few flashlights (although it would take me a bit to find them... yay for flashlight on iPhone!). We have some candles and matches we could light. And luckily we are on city water here which is safe and works even in power outages (unlike where I grew up with well water... that sucked!) unless there is a boil alert. The big problem, which just now occurred to me, is that LO will only take a warmed bottle. And we would have no way to warm it without power after the first few hours when the water in the water heater cooled. But I guess luckily she only takes a bottle every 4 hours so we'd be okay for the first post-power outage bottle and if our power was out longer than that we'd just go somewhere else. We have a lot of friends here with guest rooms so we just wouldn't stay if our power was going to be out for a long time.</p> <p>Also (knock on wood) our power has gone out a few times since we moved to our current house and it seems like the city always gets us up and running first (within a few hours max). We are right next to a hospital so I'm guessing that our power substation or whatever is high priority. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083041 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:16:38 +0000 yoursilverlining 2083041@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we have an automatic hard-wired full house generator, we have several gallons of water in the basement and plenty of food to last days/week (depending on how crafty we needed to get). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083030 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:13:01 +0000 LuLu Mom 2083030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have flashlights, candles, ect. that we keep on hand for tornado season, so technically we would be prepared. But it would get cold we don't have a generator or fireplace. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083010 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:01:54 +0000 regberadaisy 2083010@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Omg way too cold lately for power outages! We are prepared. We have candles, flashlights, batteries, wood burning fireplace, crank radio and a generator. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2083000 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:58:12 +0000 Cole 2083000@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We would be OK but not great, the flashlights and a battery powered radio are in a bag all together but the batteries are elsewhere because they are rechargeables. We do always have wood and lighters handy for the fireplace and our stove is gas and could be lit by a lighter. It would be really cold though and we never figured out how to get into our garage in an emergency short of breaking the window to the side door... (It's detached and the previous owners lost the keys.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082947 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:26:17 +0000 getjazzy 2082947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are not awful. We have emergency flashlights that double as night lights right now so we know those will be 100% charged if we needed them. We have plenty of back up food thanks to a stockpile of non perishables in the basement and plenty of household supplies. Our BBQ runs on natural gas and has a side burner so we could cook on it and we normally have bottled water on hand (but we aren't religious about that one so it's possible that we'd almost be out or have none). We have a gas fire place that has a manual bypass to the electric starter so we'd also have heat. Luckily we'd have a ton of resources around us too since my parents, sister and DH's brother all live local to us and we could pool together and share what each of us needed.</p> <p>Great question though! We tend to get caught up in the day to day and it isn't until it happens to you that you realize you didn't have a plan in place. All of the resources that we have weren't planned as emergency stuff for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082910 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:42:27 +0000 Modern Daisy 2082910@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No. Keep forgetting to bring the generator home from my parents house! We have flashlights and batteries but we would have to gather our things and immediately drive to their house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082889 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:26:50 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2082889@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've been spoiled by living in nyc because the power doesn't really go out here very much since the lines are underground. But we have flashlights in every room, and candles. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082872 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:11:57 +0000 looch 2082872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep, after we recently lost power and I was home alone.</p> <p>We have a hard wired generator, LED lanterns and special lights that alert us that we've lost power by illuminating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082836 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 02:57:03 +0000 lamariniere 2082836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've only had one so far and it lasted about 5 minutes. I was completely unprepared. Since we live in an apartment building, I'm not even really sure what we should do or who I should call. I would probably just go to a neighbor's place and see what they say. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082811 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:33:17 +0000 MrsRcCar 2082811@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes we are very prepared. We have a whole house generator and are fully stocked on food. We could last a good long while. :happy: However our phones would likely not work because when we lose power we lose our internet which makes our cell phone repeater work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082798 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:11:15 +0000 MrsD 2082798@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! haha I only know this because we have just had a cyclone through my area and am on day 5 of having no power or water which is great fun. I'm prepared for a small outage but not for one like this. We are currently running the fridge off of a generator but otherwise that's it....baby isn't too happy about it as its summer over here in Australia. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082756 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:14:08 +0000 lilyofthewest 2082756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We could be better, but, not too bad. We've got a couple of flashlights that stay plugged in to the wall and automatically come on in the event of a power outage. Our fireplace always has wood. We have a gas stove/oven (though it has electric ignition, not a pilot, so we'd need a lighter or matches). </p> <p>However, lighters and matches never seem to stay where they should be. We might have a frustrating time searching about with flashlights figuring out what drawer we'd stuffed them in to the last time we tidied up. </p> <p>I'm also terrible about keeping electronics charged. My phone, my laptop, and my tablet are often completely exhausted before they get charged. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082749 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:06:22 +0000 youboots 2082749@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! We have firewood, handy matches and candles and a 2 week emergency food supply (for general preparedness). We also have water in 30 gallon containers. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082736 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:58:07 +0000 Corduroy 2082736@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We had a power outage when DH was out of town and I was alone with sleeping LO. It was shortly after we moved and I couldn't find any flashlights or candles. DH's computer backup power supply was stuck on alarm so it increased the stress level tremendously (plus I thought it would wake LO without her white noise). </p> <p>Needless to say we are better prepared now. If the power supply alarm gets stuck again I will put it in the car outside. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082715 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:32:31 +0000 spaniellove 2082715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I haven't thought about this in a while! I stockpiled Alimentum RTF for situations like that, and we do have a woodburning stove as well as backup power. But I'd be stumbling around in the dark looking for it all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082712 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:30:15 +0000 charlotte 2082712@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No! We had a random one several months ago and my phone battery died. It was also nap time so I spent most of it worrying about him noticing the lack of white noise. And I had to figure out how to manually open our horribly heavy garage door and let our nanny get her car out. I think my prep needs to be extra phone battery, figure out how that door really works, and keep the iPad charged with daniel tiger downloaded. :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-prepared-for-a-power-outage#post-2082692 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:11:58 +0000 mrbee 2082692@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just had one for most of the day! We weren't particularly well prepared: we should have had more batteries charged (for phones) and it took us a little while to find the matches. All in all though, we did ok. The apartment was amazingly cold without working radiators though!</p> <p>Are you prepared for a power outage? </p>