7 Things You Must Do the Moment the Power Goes Out This Winter

7 Things You Must Do the Moment the Power Goes Out This Winter If the power goes out tonight in the middle of a cold snap, the first thing most people do is exactly backwards. They don't know it's backwards. It feels like the smart thing to do. And it won't be the dark that hurts you. It'll be the slow stuff. The things that go wrong quietly in the first few hours while you're busy looking for a flashlight. So today, I'll walk you through the seven things to do the moment the power goes out this winter, in the order you should do them. Step three matters most if anybody in your house takes a medicine that lives in the refrigerator. Step five could keep you out of a wreck on the way to the store. And step seven is the one that decided who didn't make it through the big Texas blackout. It isn't fire, it isn't the furnace, and it isn't the one you're thinking of. It happens indoors, it happens slowly, and most of the people it took were over sixty.