Sep162012
24-Hour Giveaway! Coast headlamps and LED flashlights!
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PDFThis giveaway has ended and no more entries will be accepted. The winners have been notified by email. They are Betty and vimpis.
Tonight when it’s dark, I want you to imagine for a minute that the power has gone out. Every light in the house is dark, the fridge isn’t running, and, if you have kids, they’re scared. Do you know right now where your flashlights and lanterns are? Do you even have any?
Every home, and I do mean every home should have multiple sources of light for emergencies. There’s a 50/50 chance, more or less, that any crisis is going to happen at night, and when it does, your family will need various light sources to deal with everything from scared kids to checking out noises in the backyard.
Our terrific sponsor, COAST, has donated two sets of emergency lights for two lucky winners in this 24-hour giveaway!
Each set includes an LED headlamp, designed to provide plenty of light when you need it and yet keep your hands free and a Coast LED Lantern. You need both ambient light that illuminates a large area and focused light for more specific tasks. As a winner, you get one of each!
To enter, fill out this form. Be sure to include your name and an email address. Your responses are NOT made public and by filling out this form rather than the regular Comment section, your email is protected from roaming data-mining bots.
Two winners will be chosen at random on Monday at 8 p.m. CENTRAL and announced on Tuesday morning.
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(9) Readers Comments
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Amanda
We are horrible! We have lots of oil lanterns, candles etc, but flashlights get eaten in this house apparently. I am pretty sure we have a destructive 4 year old to blame for it!
Michael M.
I was recently without power for 2 days. It’s amazing what a difference good light makes. I have an oil hurricane lantern that provides great light, but an enormous amount of heat as well. I have an LED lantern that is just great. 2 days of use and it’s still as bright as when I first turned it on. I have two twin D cell normal Mag lights and one twin D cell LED Maglites. I love those flash lights. Plus a couple twin AA mag lites stashed all over to get me to the lanterns or big mag lites. It seems to work okay.
Lindyrb
Ironically, my entire neighborhood had a power outage just last night. That makes three times since I moved here in April. Fortunately, we have flashlights or lanterns placed strategically throughout the house. I literally just reached under the coffee table and grabbed a lantern. No problem! This morning, the neighbors were talking about how scared they were and how they had NO idea where a flashlight was or if they had any batteries. You’d think they would have learned after the first two times!
Flick
I work on the railroad and I am on call… all. of. the. time. it is because of this that I have a very keen understanding of the need for a good flashlight and lantern to be. I have 2 railroad-issue rechargeable LED lanterns that I keep charged at all times. There is an extra battery for each. I keep a small flashlight in every room of the house and pack of glow-sticks in my nightstand drawer (to hand out to kids/guests to get by until flash lights can be reached). Last (but certainly not least) I have a drawer full of extra batteries, some flashlights and a pile of candles.
The railroad lanterns work great by hanging the handle over a ceiling fan blade… lights up an entire room.
April
We have some cheap flashlights since my kids seem to take off with them. I also have candles, lighter and matches.
Doomsday Diva
If you only have a headlamp but are in need of ambient light, you can attach the headlamp to a gallon of water & wha-la, you have ambient light!
JL
We have a couple flashlights and one lantern. The lantern does not give a lot of light. My three year old always loves to play with flashlights. These would be great to keep put up. We have found if we hide them they are three when we need them.
C M R
We are very spoiled being on a different electrical grid as the rest of the neighborhood. The “new” development has been without power for days and the most we’ve been without power is 6 hours. With that said, I am still very cautious. I have battery operated flashlights as well as crank flashlights/lanters. I have a gas stove/fireplace & a big buddy emergency heating system which will last us 72 hours. But what about “the big one?” Are we prepared? Definitely not. I am so grateful for your website. Living in Jersey, it’s not something we think a lot about. However, watching the news, has me extremely concerned. I began “prepping” about a year ago and it has been baby steps. Progress has been made and other preppers live in the neighborhood (which I never would have known.) We have several “plans” and hope none come to pass. But, if they do, hopefully, we will be prepared.
Patti
I have a flashlight in my nightstand, on my computer desk, which also has a UPS which gives me about 30 minutes of light from the monitor, to find my flashlights. I also have LOTS of candles, and 2 oil lamps. I have to be careful about using the candles and lamps, I have birds. their lungs can be damaged by the microscopic soot from the wicks. I also have flashlights in the car. I can always use more!