Blue72
Flashlight Enthusiast
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2007
- Messages
- 1,138
A few things I learned during the 4 day blackout we had due to the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
1.All our fun superbright flashlights are useless and waste batteries. Just like camping flashlights with long runtime and about 10-20 lumens were ideal for the situation. No need to carry spare batteries and you can leave them on without worry of saving the batteries. In complete dark with no light pollution the 10-20 lumen lights were like 150 lumens on a regular night with outside lights.
2.Batteries are wiped out on store shelves especially C and D cell. However you could find AA or AAA alkalines. I am glad many of my flashlights run on them
3.No matter how much I love flashlights. When it came time to sit inside and read or play board games, Candles or coleman lanterns are the way to go. The warm glow just feels nice!
4.Glow sticks and colored LED toys for the kids to play at night are a huge huge hit! Matter of fact the whole neighborhood full of kids moaned when the lights came back on last night!!!!
1.All our fun superbright flashlights are useless and waste batteries. Just like camping flashlights with long runtime and about 10-20 lumens were ideal for the situation. No need to carry spare batteries and you can leave them on without worry of saving the batteries. In complete dark with no light pollution the 10-20 lumen lights were like 150 lumens on a regular night with outside lights.
2.Batteries are wiped out on store shelves especially C and D cell. However you could find AA or AAA alkalines. I am glad many of my flashlights run on them
3.No matter how much I love flashlights. When it came time to sit inside and read or play board games, Candles or coleman lanterns are the way to go. The warm glow just feels nice!
4.Glow sticks and colored LED toys for the kids to play at night are a huge huge hit! Matter of fact the whole neighborhood full of kids moaned when the lights came back on last night!!!!