Extension's Blackout Summit offers power outage tips
November 23, 2020
With colder weather bringing sleet, ice and snowstorms, it’s the season for power
outages.
![Elizabeth Explores photo. Candles are one source of emergency lighting during a power outage.](https://uaf.edu/news/archives/wordpress-images/2020/11/elizabeth-explores-HDQkp4iBLwU-unsplash-500x500.jpg)
The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will host a free Blackout Backup Summit Dec. 4 with more than a dozen half-hour sessions on different aspects of handling power outages. Individuals may participate in one or all of the Zoom workshops. Topics include:
- Resources before and during an outage, 8 a.m.
- Buying and using generators, 8:30 a.m.
- Emergency lighting, 9 a.m.
- Simple battery banks, 9:30 a.m.
- Salvaging perishable foods, 10 a.m.
- Heating safely in the dark, 10:30 a.m.
- Wire and cord management, 11:30 a.m.
- Water supplies, noon
- Using your car’s power, 12:30 p.m.
- Communications, 1 p.m.
- Managing pets without power, 1:30 p.m.
- Fuel readiness, 2 p.m.
- What to do after an outage, 2:30 p.m.
- Final wrap-up, 3 p.m.
Registration and details are available at https://bit.ly/BlackoutSummit2020. For more information, contact Extension energy specialist Art Nash at alnashjr@alaska.edu or 907-474-6366. Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made five days in advance to Nash.