11 Tips for Keeping Food Safe When the Power Goes Out

Wednesday, February 5, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Gaye Levy
NaturalBlaze.com
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

A couple of years back, 600 million people in India were without power for two days. It was not only lights out – but lights out for half of the population. Can you imagine the chaos?

More recently, there have been significant power outages in North America. In late October 2012, Hurricane Sandy brought high winds and coastal flooding to a large portion of the eastern United States, leaving an estimated 8 million customers without power.

Not quite as bad but serious none-the-less, the ice storms of December 2013 cumulatively left over 1 million people without power.

When the power goes out (commonly called “grid down”), so do transportation systems, manufacturing systems, communications systems and of course, household systems. And what about those household systems? The first thing that comes to mind is heating and cooling when the temperate drops to below freezing or the heat swelters to 90 degrees Fahrenheit with 80% humidity.

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