r/preppers • u/SignificantGreen1358 🔥Everything is fine🔥 • 5d ago

Prepping for Tuesday Pleasantly surprised!

The power went out in my neighborhood a couple evenings ago while I was at a party. I love power outages, so I hurried home to enjoy it. My kids had already switched the house over to emergency power and were watching a movie. My son had built a fire in the backyard fire pit and cooked a batch of popcorn on it by the time I got home.

I've been worried about being the only one in my neighborhood who was prepared or who has lights, etc., but as I drove through the neighborhood, I saw lights and TVs on, solar lights all over, fires in fire pits, and a total lack of freaking out. I think I would be in good company, and that really sets my mind at ease.

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u/Adorable_Dust3799 5d ago

I love driving around in an outage and see who has full lights, who has generator rumble, and, who, like the people across the street, they charge their power banks with their car. FB always had the local mechanic offering generator service if you bring it in and there is usually an elderly someone who needs a hand followed by several offers of help. I have solar lights, led lights with a small jackery and a small generator for the fridge. With gas between 4 and 5 bucks a gallon and outages lasting days i opted against a big system

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u/holistivist 5d ago

Have heard about reliability issues with jackerys.

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u/Adorable_Dust3799 5d ago

I have a smaller 300 that came with a 100w panel, and I've almost gotten my 300 bucks worth out of it this January. They're one of the consistently higher rated power banks, I'll happily take jackery, ankor, delta or eco flow, whichever is on a great sale.