How to ride out a blackout without draining the only battery
A one-page blackout drill: fridge rules, light discipline, and what actually gets plugged into the station.
- Keep fridge and freezer closed. A full freezer lasts longer than an empty one.
- Headlamps over ceiling flashlights. Hands stay free.
- Phone on low power. One person is the comms lead.
- Plug the station only into the list you wrote in daylight: radio, CPAP, one lamp, phone.
- If you run a generator, it lives outside, away from windows, with a CO alarm inside.
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