9 Items That Vanish From Walmart Within 6 Hours Of Winter Blackout (Veterans Grab These Instead)

My books are on sale now 📖 Do or Die, and the set of three. Grab them here: https://doughaskett.com The day a winter storm watch goes out, the whole town does the same run, and the shelves empty in the same order. In the February 2021 freeze, 246 people died in Texas, most of them from the cold and 19 from carbon monoxide, and more than 1,400 went for emergency care for carbon monoxide in one week. Doug's generator cost about $800, sits on a gravel pad 20 feet from the house, and the battery carbon monoxide alarm he'd put in the cart instead was posted at $24.97 this week. Subscribe to the channel: @doughaskett In this video, we talk about 9 things that vanish from the shelves before a winter blackout and what to have instead, including the storm-day generator that ends up in the garage, the electric space heater that dies with the grid, bottled water against 28 gallons in four dated jugs, firewood and a full cord bought in October, milk and eggs against the 4-hour fridge rule, faucet covers and pipe foam, undated batteries, bread against a pantry you eat anyway, and the store that goes dark too. 🔔 Subscribe so the next list reaches you before the first cold front does. 💬 Comment where you're watching from and what was gone first at your store the last time a storm was coming. 📢 Send this to the one person you'd call in a freeze, on Facebook, Reddit or the family group chat. You're the reason this channel exists. Chapters: 00:00 Opening 00:44 The one they run in the garage 03:23 A heater that needs the grid 05:14 The water that goes early 07:10 The wood that burns the furniture 10:18 The pipe you never wrapped 12:08 The batteries that were already dead 13:34 The bread everybody fights over 14:57 The store goes dark too 16:21 What goes first and what to do Sources: NOAA Climate Prediction Center, ENSO Diagnostic Discussion https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml National Weather Service, Winter Weather Warnings, Watches and Advisories https://www.weather.gov/safety/winter-ww Texas DSHS, February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths https://www.dshs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/news/updates/SMOC_FebWinterStorm_MortalitySurvReport_12-30-21.pdf CDC, When the Power Goes Out, Keep Your Generator Outside https://www.cdc.gov/carbon-monoxide/media/pdfs/Generators_1.pdf FoodSafety.gov, Food Safety During Power Outage https://www.foodsafety.gov/food-safety-charts/food-safety-during-power-outage ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and NBC News, Texas carbon monoxide poisoning in the 2021 outage https://www.kwtx.com/2021/04/29/texas-enabled-the-worst-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-catastrophe-in-recent-us-history/ Forbes, Walmart's Emergency Operations Center and the February 2021 winter weather https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2021/02/20/walmarts-emergency-operations-center-navigates-unprecedented-weather-closings/ DISCLAIMER: Educational content from one household getting ready. Prices and methods are real and researched, and prices vary by store, region and season. Nothing here replaces an order, a warning or an alert from your county, the National Weather Service or your fire agency. When they say leave, leave. #DougHaskett #WinterStorm #PowerOutage #WinterBlackout #TexasFreeze #HillCountry #Texas #Prepping #Prepper #EmergencyPreparedness #PanicBuying #Generator #CarbonMonoxide #CarbonMonoxideAlarm #FaucetCover #Firewood #WaterStorage #BudgetPrepping #HomePreparedness #ElNino