Rechargeable lights, gas stoves and backup appliances
Every load shedding country has the same tombstone statistics: house fires in the dark, from candles and paraffin lamps tipped by children, pets, and wind. Flame was the only answer when a blackout meant scrambling through a drawer; it was never a good answer. A modern rechargeable LED turns the entire problem into a $15…
The clock starts the moment the grid drops. An unopened fridge holds a safe temperature for about four hours—that’s the whole budget nature gives your milk, meat, and leftovers. After that, you’re not storing food, you’re incubating it. The freezer is a different animal: packed full, it can hold the line for 48 hours without…
Here is the quiet truth of modern outages: the lights going out is an inconvenience, but the Wi-Fi going out is what actually hurts. Fiber lines usually stay live through a power cut—the fiber itself carries no electricity—but the ONT (the little box the fiber plugs into) and your router both need wall power. Cut…
