I was just reading about what is going on back east with Hurricane Isabel. Naturally, hardware stores are selling out of flashlights (of course) and batteries (duh again) as people hunker down and prepare for the worst.
Then it hit me...I am sure that they sold out of C's, D's AA's but what about 123s? Only CPF'rs are going to go after these! And I bet we are spread out enough that we could just stroll on in pretty much anywhere and find 123 batts in such a situation. I mean, the average person is not going out to get batteries for their camera when preparing for an emergency (oh wait, that's wrong. Pictures for insurance purposes, and cool hurricane pics I guess. But camera batteries need to be changed seldom).
Of course, I always have at least 12 fresh 123's in a surefire box, not to mention a ton of AAAs for my Arcs but anyway...
Am I that slow that I just realized this availability advantage when using 123 battery powered flashlights in a widespread pending emergency? Has everyone else here already had this thought a million times?
Just curious.
Then it hit me...I am sure that they sold out of C's, D's AA's but what about 123s? Only CPF'rs are going to go after these! And I bet we are spread out enough that we could just stroll on in pretty much anywhere and find 123 batts in such a situation. I mean, the average person is not going out to get batteries for their camera when preparing for an emergency (oh wait, that's wrong. Pictures for insurance purposes, and cool hurricane pics I guess. But camera batteries need to be changed seldom).
Of course, I always have at least 12 fresh 123's in a surefire box, not to mention a ton of AAAs for my Arcs but anyway...
Am I that slow that I just realized this availability advantage when using 123 battery powered flashlights in a widespread pending emergency? Has everyone else here already had this thought a million times?
Just curious.