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You have a sudden power outage affecting your entire city/town, how prepared are you, and how long will you "survive" not having electricity? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Any Generators, Power Banks, Solar Panels, etc...?

Edit: So I'm gonna answer my own question. I'll probably freak out and would have zero generators to deal with it. Heater is Gas, but I don't know if gas would work during power outage. Cooking, well there's a butane burner stove. I have 3 10000mah batteries, but they have 60% efficiency due to power loss during transfer, so its effectively 6000mah, enough to roughly charge my 5000mah battery once, 3 batteries is 3-4 charges. Then I'd be bored with zero entertainment, along with all the food melting and going bad, very not fun 🙃

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

we still have cell service?

Cell Towers should have a backup battery that last like maybe a few hours? But people might be calling each other in response to the blackout so the networks could get congested and you might not be able to call.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

In the two decades I’ve lived here, we’ve never had a power outage long enough or widespread enough to affect cell service.

I don’t even care about calling - who does that anymore? But data is more important in day to day use. I can entertain myself without it, but I’m not sure I still have a working radio receive broadcast TV, so I’d have no way of staying informed

But it is an interesting question - do cell towers also have redundant or special service or be prioritized for restoral of service in an emergency?