Geddinight
Newly Enlightened
I live in upstate NY. We have rare power outages to say the least where I live. I am a suburbanite to a medium sized upstate city.
Tonight, I was at my fiance's home making dinner when a thunder storm cell hit. She lives five minutes away from me in another township. The lights there went our for about ten seconds. Everyone made a joke that I could save the day being a flashlight guy. With that, I pulled out my Inova X1 with the new lens and lit up the dinner table. Everyone laughed and then the power came on.
When I returned home, my power was off. An hour and a half later, my children walked around the nieghborhood and looked at the outage.
To my suprise, only eight homes were without power. The power company advised a 3 hour delay. They were right, down to ten minutes!
During the outage, my lights came into service. I will describe what actually happened and what acutally worked well.
First out of the gate were two River Rock lanterns from Target, that each teenager was given.
Then, I brought out five lights for them as well. A Sears Craftsman 4 AA one watt light, two River Rock 2 AA lights, one River Rock 2 c light, and one 3 watt2aa light from overseas.
The best light came out in the real dark. I had the kids turn on the Coleman red retro rechargeable 15 watt compact. That light was awesome.
We played cards by the Coleman for a long time until the crew got there. Then the crew advised tht they would be by in an hour to change the transformer. That is due in about 1/2 hour from now.
By the way, when I was looking at my collection, I chose my pelican M1 for my personal around the house light.
I had a Mag951 and a Remingotn 870 with extended tube that were chosen for my OUTSIDE the house solution. (Neither was needed)
Tonight, I was at my fiance's home making dinner when a thunder storm cell hit. She lives five minutes away from me in another township. The lights there went our for about ten seconds. Everyone made a joke that I could save the day being a flashlight guy. With that, I pulled out my Inova X1 with the new lens and lit up the dinner table. Everyone laughed and then the power came on.
When I returned home, my power was off. An hour and a half later, my children walked around the nieghborhood and looked at the outage.
To my suprise, only eight homes were without power. The power company advised a 3 hour delay. They were right, down to ten minutes!
During the outage, my lights came into service. I will describe what actually happened and what acutally worked well.
First out of the gate were two River Rock lanterns from Target, that each teenager was given.
Then, I brought out five lights for them as well. A Sears Craftsman 4 AA one watt light, two River Rock 2 AA lights, one River Rock 2 c light, and one 3 watt2aa light from overseas.
The best light came out in the real dark. I had the kids turn on the Coleman red retro rechargeable 15 watt compact. That light was awesome.
We played cards by the Coleman for a long time until the crew got there. Then the crew advised tht they would be by in an hour to change the transformer. That is due in about 1/2 hour from now.
By the way, when I was looking at my collection, I chose my pelican M1 for my personal around the house light.
I had a Mag951 and a Remingotn 870 with extended tube that were chosen for my OUTSIDE the house solution. (Neither was needed)
