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You've got a good start here, let me add my solutions to it:)
Note that this is for going full-blown paranoia while still maintaining current living quarters. I live in Europe and am certainly not considering this (I just like a puzzle)
For heating get one of these babies: http://www.haassohn.com/en
Heat your main room with it. You can heat water bottles or stones and place them in bed, but I suggest insulation and just getting good covers.
Build a woodstockpile on your roof.
For cooking, buy a cooking set + gas: http://www.ebharatgas.com/page...
11kg will get you about 3 weeks.
There's also haassohn cooking stuff, but imho you're better off cooking on gas (reliable constant heat, easier to adjust high-low)
Lighting: rewire your house to use LED directly, without the builtin transformers. Hook this system to a car battery (or better yet a special battery), charged by solar panels.
Forget about your server (wtf will you need that for, big chance internet is out already) or buy a good UPS if the outages last short times. Do buy a tablet (for movie-addiction, can charge off of car battery) and stock up on books and games (buy them second hand). If the family (?) demands to watch movies together, hook up the tablet to a pico-projector.
On the top of your roof, next to all the wood, you'll be growing your own garden and stockpile on food. Because long-term power outages also screw up with supermarkets.
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(posted anon before, for no good reason) You've got a good start here, let me add my solutions to it :)
Note that this is for going full-blown paranoia while still maintaining current living quarters. I live in Europe and am certainly not considering this (I just like a puzzle)
For heating get one of these babies: http://www.haassohn.com/en
Heat your main room with it. You can heat water bottles or stones and place them in bed, but I suggest insulation and just getting good covers.
Build a woodstockpile on your roof.
For cooking, buy a cooking set + gas: http://www.ebharatgas.com/page...
11kg will get you about 3 weeks.
There's also haassohn cooking stuff, but imho you're better off cooking on gas (reliable constant heat, easier to adjust high-low)
Lighting: rewire your house to use LED directly, without the builtin transformers. Hook this system to a car battery (or better yet a special battery), charged by solar panels.
Forget about your server (wtf will you need that for, big chance internet is out already) or buy a good UPS if the outages last short times. Do buy a tablet (for movie-addiction, can charge off of car battery) and stock up on books and games (buy them second hand). If the family (?) demands to watch movies together, hook up the tablet to a pico-projector.
On the top of your roof, next to all the wood, you'll be growing your own garden and stockpile on food. Because long-term power outages also screw up with supermarkets.