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Lights in an Emergency - Sunday 1st March 2015

During the recent fires here in the Adelaide Hills, we had to evacuate. I have a granny flat attached to my daughter's house. My son-in-law stayed and saved the house, the water tanks, the storage shed and his 15 sheep. Lots of trees, fences and pasture was burned. As the electricity went off on the Saturday morning he needed light for at night. I use a small string 20 bulb LED Christmas lights as a nightlight, mostly for my dog. We live on a property, so no streetlights around. I have these lights all over the house for when we have a power failure. So at night he had about 20 strings all over the house and that was fantastic. Not strong enough to read by but very safe. The power was off from Saturday morning until Wednesday night. These little strings of lights last a couple of years on just 2AA batteries so very cheap to run and much safer than candles.
Contributed by Joanne Kegel