When the power is out

On screen the whole time: AI host - Owners voice. Sheets 6, 8, and 10 when they are named. One mention of the workbook. No generator is shown as a thing to buy.

The power is out. The job is the food, the light you already own, and the person who has the key.

The face is AI. The voice is the owner’s. I am not a doctor, a firefighter, or a certified instructor. If someone is in danger, call 911.

Light is the flashlight you own. Candles are a fire hazard. This video does not sell a heater and does not name a heat method. In cold weather, use the layers you already have, and know the neighborhood meeting place you can walk to.

An unopened refrigerator keeps food cold for about four hours. Refrigerated food should be safe if the outage was no longer than that. Throw out perishable food — meat, poultry, fish, eggs, leftovers — that has been above 40 degrees for two hours or more. Those figures are on the Ready.gov food page. They are also on the fridge card. Write the same meeting places on that card that you wrote on the reunion sheet.

A generator, if this house already has one, stays outside and away from the home. Never run one indoors. Never run one in a garage. Never tie it into the house wiring. If you do not have one, this is not a shopping trip. Compatibility of a medical device with any backup power is a question for the manual and the manufacturer.

If someone in the house depends on a powered device, the blank block asks how long the backup lasts, whether a short stop causes harm, where the extra supplies are, the temperature, a manual backup, and who has been told. Those answers come from the clinician and the maker. Ready.gov does not publish a battery-hour minimum. A utility priority list is a request you can date. It does not mean the power stays on. If nobody depends on a device, leave the block blank.

The car, if you have one, stays at least half full, because a station may not be able to pump. Take one car if you have to leave. If you have no car, the leave-plan is already a line on the reunion sheet.

Then check the person who has the key. They should know where the supplies are. They give a medicine, or run a device, only if a clinician has shown them how. I am not teaching that skill.

The four-hour figure is for a refrigerator that stays closed. It is not a promise about a door that has been open all afternoon. When you are unsure, throw the perishable food out.

If someone is at work when the lights go, their work kit is a separate small count: food, water, medicine, and shoes they can walk in, for at least twenty-four hours. That is the Ready.gov kit page. A car kit, if you have a car, has no day-count on that page. Write where it is. If you have no car, skip that line.

On the device sheet, write only what a clinician or the manual already told you. How long the backup lasts. Whether a short stop causes harm. Where the extra supplies are. What temperature they need. What the manual backup is. Who has been told. If you do not know, the line stays blank. Do not guess a number of hours.

While the power is still on, pass A is the flashlight, the paper contacts, and the water you already counted. Pass B buys the missing gallons at a grocery store. Pass C, toward two weeks, waits. Cash is a dollar amount you choose. I found no official cash figure, so I will not invent one.

Sheets 6, 8, and 10 on the table. Say the product name once.

The device block, the gallon count, and the three budget passes are sheets 6, 8, and 10 of The Household Count. Pass A is still zero dollars: the plan, the water already in the house, the paper contacts, the flashlight you own. The workbook is not on sale.

When you walk to the neighborhood meeting place, write the date. When you check the water, write the date. Then stop.