A Question about lighting For City and Apartment Dwellers
After getting through the Dark side from Hurricane Sandy, I saw some unique approaches to "emergency lighting". Our preps were along the more "traditional lines", kerosene and gas lanterns, candles and of course a generator. But I did see a Senior citizen, who lived by himself in an apartment use a unique (at least to me) approach. He had a pair of 12 volt car style batteries. He watched the news and when he saw Sandy coming, turned up his charger and topped both batteries off. He was running a couple of LED style lights and a small radio off these batteries for almost 5 days without any problems. His main concern was light for reading. His opinion was that using any combustable type fuel was not safe in an apartment complex, and of course a generator was completely out of the question. My question, after that long run around the bush is;;;;; What provisions are you City Dwellers and apartment dwellers making for at least short term lighting in the event of a power outage? Just a hint,,, start thinking seriously about it now, later maybe too late.
It should be noted, his "setup" including two new batteries and an inexpensive charger and two LED lights probably cost less than $100. And takes up almost no space n his hallcloset
