12 Army Tricks to Keep Your Home Running When the Power Goes Out

📘 Want to support the channel and get something back for it? Here are my 101 fixes for the house and the car — written plain, indexed by symptom: https://dalerwhitfield.com/ When the lights go out, the store is counting on your panic. A retired Army quartermaster shows you how to keep your home running for about $78 instead. Master Sergeant Dale Whitfield (retired) spent 30 years as an Army quartermaster keeping 800 soldiers supplied on a budget that kept getting cut. In this briefing he goes through 12 power outage tricks, from easy to expensive to the ones that can hurt you. It starts with the signal lamp that protects your TV and router from a power surge. Then a headlamp-and-water-jug lantern, battery storage with first-in-first-out rotation, and how to make your phone last days instead of hours. Next come water and food: how much water to store per person, how to flush a toilet with no power, which food to eat first, and the USDA numbers for how long your fridge and freezer keep food safe. The last act is where people lose real money and get hurt. It covers keeping cool in a summer blackout, generator safety, carbon monoxide and backfeeding, why you should never heat with a gas oven or candles, and how to keep your family warm in one room. The number one trick costs nothing. It starts at your kitchen sink and protects a few hundred dollars of food. Subscribe if you want to run your house like a supply room, not a store. #PowerOutage #EmergencyPreparedness #HomeHacks