When the power goes out or a storm closes the roads, the right kit matters more than any clever trick. These picks rank first aid kits, bug out bags, solar generators, flashlights, headlamps, shortwave radios, Baofeng antennas and survival knives, and one guide walks through putting out a grease fire safely.
A storm cut the power one evening, my kitchen flashlight was dead and the candles were lost in a closet, so I started reading about simple home emergency kits. Samuel T. Loomis is my pen name on this one-person blog, and a headlamp now hangs from my bedpost; here's the longer version.
