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The Blackout Order — 62 pages
and four sheets you print and keep
The usual answer
$400–$2,000
A midsize generator, before you buy a drop of fuel. Then fuel to store, rotate and keep somewhere safe.
Generator price range: Consumer Reports, midsize category.
One payment, nothing billed again
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Why this costs more than $37 to ignore
“Texas puts final estimate of winter storm death toll at 246”
The Texas Tribune, via KSAT 12 · January 2, 2022 · Read the article
They were not people living off-grid in the woods. They were ordinary houses, twenty minutes from a hospital and a supermarket, and four days was all it took. Chapter four is the one place a generator must never go — the mistake that killed those nineteen.
This is what to do.
Seven fixes, numbered, in the order they have to happen. Nothing in them needs a generator, solar, or anything you do not already own.
Light
How to light the house before dark, and why the flashlight in your drawer is the wrong tool for it.
Water
You have forty gallons of clean drinking water in your house right now. You just do not know where. I will show you, and what to switch off first.
Cold
What to do to the freezer in the first ten minutes, so the food lasts five days instead of two.
Heat
How to pick one room, keep it warm, and shut the rest of the house out of it. Plus the one place a generator must never go. This is what killed those nineteen.
Food
Three days of meals with no stove, written down once, so nobody has to decide anything in the dark.
Contact
Why a number from out of state gets through when the one across town does not, and how to make one phone battery last all week.
Heat wave
When it is August and the problem is heat, everything flips. I will show you what comes first, and the fan mistake that makes it worse for older people.
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What four readers have said
Four people have rated it so far, averaging 4.9 out of 5. A small number, and I am not going to dress it up as a movement. Here is all four, including the one who took half a star off.
★★★★★ 5.0
“… we ran the thirty minute drill on a Saturday in October and found out our house loses water in about two minutes, not two hours. Better to learn that with the lights on.”
Ray Whitcomb · Sandpoint, ID
★★★★★ 5.0
“… the line about fans making things worse above ninety five degrees was new to me, and I had been doing it wrong for years.”
Dana Prescott · Georgetown, TX
★★★★☆ 4.5
“The forty gallons in the water heater is worth the price by itself … My only complaint is that the apartment section is short. I live on the seventh floor and I would have liked more than a page.”
Marie Ostergaard · Duluth, MN
★★★★★ 5.0
“We were dark for eleven days after Helene and I learned most of this the hard way. Reading it afterward was uncomfortable, because it is all in here.”
Wade Pruitt · Asheville, NC
Seven fixes, in the order that works. 62 pages, PDF, on your phone the moment you pay.
- Light a whole room with a headlamp and an empty gallon jug. Ninety seconds.
- The forty gallons of clean drinking water already sitting in your heater.
- The one place a generator must never go.
$37 · one payment · 15-day guarantee
Yes, send me the book — $37One last thing
You cannot buy this after the lights go out.
That is not a sales line, it is the whole problem. The order only works if you already know it. At hour three, in the dark, with your family watching you decide, you are not going to be reading a PDF on a phone you are trying to save.
Nothing happens to me if you close this page. The next time the grid goes down it is your kitchen, your kids, and your call.
Read the whole thing first. Then decide.
You have fifteen days. If you decide it was not worth it, you ask for the money back and you get it — and the five files stay on your phone. I am not going to ask you to delete them.
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Sources for the figures on this page
- Texas Department of State Health Services, 30 December 2021 — February 2021 Winter Storm-Related Deaths (PDF): 246 deaths across 77 counties, 158 from hypothermia, 19 from carbon monoxide, and the age breakdown in Table 2
- The Texas Tribune, via KSAT 12, 2 January 2022 — final estimate of winter storm death toll at 246