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Anyone in central Illinois finally pull the trigger on home backup? what else should I actually be prepping?
McLean County here. Corn Belt had people out most of the weekend after the EF1s came through, first confirmed tornadoes in this area in 20 years. Decided I was done being unprepared and ordered a delta pro ultra. Got it set up on the manual transfer switch.
Got through the actual outage fine once I had it running. Fridge didn't lose anything, AC stayed on, barely noticed it compared to my neighbors. Felt pretty good about the purchase.
But I'm realizing power was the only thing I actually thought about and I don't have much else figured out. What do you guys actually prep beyond electricity? Water storage? Food rotation? Anything that came in handy last month?
u/joosefpen1914 — 1 day ago