How to Prepare for a Natural Disaster: The Survival Kit Your Home Needs

Whether hurricanes, tornadoes, or floods, natural disasters can strike anywhere, anytime. It can be a terrifying and dangerous situation for those in its path. If you live in an area prone to such disasters,...

How to Prepare for a Long-Term Power Outage

Most people rarely think about where their electricity comes from—until it's not there. Long-term power outages remain relatively infrequent. But with aging infrastructure, ever-worsening extreme weather events, and geopolitical instability increasing, long-term blackouts are...

Can Ice Accumulation Cause Power Outages?

Everyone knows that winter weather makes driving treacherous. Heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain often make it unpleasant to be outside. What you may forget about winter is that ice accumulation can affect you...

How to Prepare for Summer Power Outages

Blackouts can be incredibly stressful, even if you have been through them many times. Losing power robs us of our daily comforts and essentials, including everything from entertainment to refrigerating perishable foods.  Without following the...

How to Use a Portable Generator During a Power Outage

The combination of an aging electricity grid and increasing episodes of extreme weather due to climate change means that power outages are now a recurring event in many people’s lives. Acquiring a portable generator is...

What’s the Best Alternative to a Home Backup Generator?

You’ve most likely heard of a home backup generator. You may have even conjured up an image of those burly, fuel-feasting generators that you would see around the side of someone’s house. These days,...

A Deep Dive into Buying a Solar Generator for Your House

Are you considering a battery generator for your home but don’t like the idea of owning a gas generator? Do you dread refueling the one you already have to then listen to its loud...

How to Prepare for a Hurricane

It's hurricane season again, and that means it's time to prepare for the possibility of a killer storm. Across the country, hurricanes bring devastation each year, impacting millions of lives and costing billions of...

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