Had Recent Outage

I had a power outage recently. The lights flickered for a few seconds then went out. I open my Otter Box where I keep my flashlights. Since my Palight is always on, I spot it and turn it on and shine it at my other flashlights. And now I'm thinking which of my dozen flashlights do I use. I think some more. And I think some more. And I can't decide which flashlight to use. I finally make my decision based on my battery supply. I had the most C batteries so I went with my Tektite. Now, I know the forum members probably have at least a dozen flashlights so I'm wondering if this has ever happened to you? Where you have so many flashlights, you can't decide which one to use for a simple power outage. I felt kinda silly afterwards for being so indecisive.

I'd probably go for one of my longer running LED lights as the duration of the outage would not be known.

Probably a Lightwave 4000 or one of my Eternalights for general room lighting.

Then out would come the brighter/show off lights to have a little fun with

Sometimes it's whatever is easiest to get to. Tonight just after "Survivor" (gee, glad it didn't happen during the show! ), the power dumped. One of the major power gen plants dumped a generator and put most of Anchorage and Eagle River (small town about 10 miles to the north of us) in the dark.

Instantly grabbed a Pelican L1 (thanks Diesel Dave!) to get me on the path to the other lights.

JOshooter comes up the stairs with an Inova 24/7, a Princeton Tec Aurora headlamp, and an eternaLight X-ray.

First I reached for my new "Hurricane Relief Fund" prize, a Nuwai 5 watt TM-116x (thanks lighthound!) - took that out to the living room to light the oil lamps. Then I headed to get the SureFire U2 - but actually decided to use a Dorcy AAA (with the lens & reflector popped out for a nice flood) for navigating the house, with the Nuwai riding along.

The wife ended up with a PT Aurora on her head while reading and a DuraPro crank light.

Oh, had a 1-D cell Energizer lantern in the bathroom (thanks Lynx Arc!).

Being a "Flashaholic" has it's benefits! We were thankful to have these lights handy! The power came on after about an hour, had it gone into hours - yes I'd have had my Lightwave 3000/4000 on alert and an eternaLight Elite Max on me as well as some Princeton Tec Attitudes distributed to the family (or neighbors if need be) for long runtime duty!