What to do if you lose electrical power?

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bosun

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After that big mid-west power failure several years ago, I invested in a whole house 14KW natural gas automatic generator. I can survive with no electricity in the summer, but during the winter this old guy would end up dead! Of course haven't had a power outage lasting more than two hours since then. Magic amulet?
My Nitecore I4 battery charger comes with a cable to plug into my cigarette lighter in my vehicle to charge batteries using my vehicle's 12 volt system..
 

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I love your "Beer Now cheaper than gas!" I used to say my Miller Lite had fewer calories than milk, so I considered eating cereal with beer instead of milk.

Bad memories...I did that in college once.

I have 6 18650s for my reo grand. Two of them are high power and I can go almost a full week just on them. If I ration, I could do a week on those two. So, I could easily go two weeks before I hit up the reo mini.

Mechanicals, spare batteries, and if it gets REALLY bad, hit up the disposables. I have about 50 flings btween normal and mini. So I am good for two months of no power vaping wise...many other things to worry about if I have no power that long.
 

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ive used my laptop as a "portable power bank". you can get a good charge out of it before it dies. or you could vape a passthru off it for a while. whnever theres a storm a'comin, i make sure to charge all my batts and both laptops. works out well for a few days. then theres the car battery to weaze juice off of. if all else failed, id put some eliquid in a tea light candlewax melter LOL no, not really. :D

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I guess you can start a little fire, heat up some rocks, squeeze a little juice on the rock, put a tin funnel over the rock, then vape!

This is priceless and wonderful fuel with which to torture the next generation of vapers. "You all think you have it so hard, flibbledee-flee! When *I* started vaping we had to heat up our juice on a rock and suck it out!"
 
I live in Louisiana my power can go out on a bright sunny day for no reason whatsoever. ;)

We rarely lose power due to weather because we don't have any weather here. :laugh: I suppose when The Big One (earthquake) hits and buildings are falling all over each other and my house is dropping into the gaping maw of a gigantic rent in the earth, we will be without electricity. But during all that, believe it or not I probably will not even be thinking of vaping. :laugh:

We've lost power once since we moved here (going on nine years ago) and that was because some momo ran his car into my street's transformer.

When I lived in the northeast we constantly lost electricity due to storms/hurricanes. Once we were without power for FIVE DAYS, yes count 'em, folks, five. We didn't even have ATMs, it was Armageddon. :p
 

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We rarely lose power due to weather because we don't have any weather here. :laugh: I suppose when The Big One (earthquake) hits and buildings are falling all over each other and my house is dropping into the gaping maw of a gigantic rent in the earth, we will be without electricity. But during all that, believe it or not I probably will not even be thinking of vaping. :laugh:

We've lost power once since we moved here (going on nine years ago) and that was because some momo ran his car into my street's transformer.

When I lived in the northeast we constantly lost electricity due to storms/hurricanes. Once we were without power for FIVE DAYS, yes count 'em, folks, five. We didn't even have ATMs, it was Armageddon. :p

CaliforniaGirl, I am from Calif. I was born and raised there, and in all that time, I don't remember ever losing the electricity, unless the power company sent us a notice that they needed to do some work.
Since moving to VA, I have never ever seen electricity go out so much. Doesn't even have to be a storm around her. A little breeze, a leaf moves on a tree, and POW, electricity is gone! Oh to be back home in Cali. :(
 

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One more vote for just using the car. A little car lighter to USB adapter costed me around $5. I don't know how many times you could charge an ecig battery before it started to drain a car battery by any significant amount, but I'm pretty sure it would take a LONG time. When I go camping every summer I charge my batteries many times during a 3 or 4 day camping trip (without starting the car at all), and it doesn't seem to have any effect on the car battery.
 
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