Grid Collapse Update: LA facing blackouts, Lights Out

LA facing blackouts
Meanwhile our leaders are focused on climate change.  Wait until the climate in a non-air conditioned house gets nice and toasty and maybe you'll heard some squealing from those fruitcakes in California.  It needs to hit them personally and probably even then they won't understand priorities.  Instead they'll move to a more sensible state and soil it with their far left loony ideas and get the same result.

Recommended response to this info:  Find a way to become energy self sufficient or at least less dependent.

Lights Out
So Ted Koppel did the job of a journalist recently giving an example of real reporting as a lesson for the current crop of propaganda sellers posing as journalists.  His book titled Lights Out is a good primer on how much at risk we are for cyber attacks on the grid.  Whether you choose to read this book or not, I'd suggest you follow the concept to a natural conclusion.  The government is not going to do the job necessary to protect the citizens while it is busy cutting our ability generate power for purposes of limiting "Climate Change."  Without wasting any further time on the fantasy of climate change and our ability to manage it, I'd suggest you take on the personal responsibility to protect yourself.

Suggestion:  Buy some solar panels and set up just a basic system to cover lights and maybe refrigeration.  For heat I'd find a way to get a back-up system in place such as propane and wood, or wood pellets.    One nice thing about propane is that it stores for years, so essentially indefinitely.  Kerosene is problematic simply because it ages and requires very close monitoring for safety.  I still have kerosene lamps and one heater but consider them last ditch fall back methods.  I did some testing this winter with oil lamps and found that one lamp seems to put out about the same amount of heat as a light bulb, maybe 60 watts for a large oil lamp and 25 watts for  small one.  This worked to help me keep a closed off section of the house above freezing while burning through some old lamp oil and testing the concept.  It works but of course is a flame and requires ventilation for safety.