How I handled the September 2026 Nor’Easter Storm power outage! No sweat when you’re prepared!

Good morning. It's Henry. I'm oars and blows. Welcome to another episode. I'm reporting to you from my neighborhood. This is the block, corner of the block where I live, here in Huntington, Long Island. It's Saturday morning and we have that crazy nor'easter that unexpectedly came to Long Island. So last night, Friday night at 10 PM, we heard this big bang, like an explosion, and instantly the power went out. It's now 10 in the morning, so it's been 12 hours and nobody has come to address the issue. While walking this morning, I saw what happened. As you can see, this big tree limb came down, or like they say in Canada, down, and severed that electrical line, or that might just be a support wire. I'm not sure, but I'm not going to get too close because as you guys know, electrical scares the living daylights out of me. And this other tree limb came down and severed the power lines and probably shorted and busted a transformer. And just as we speak, looks like some kind of a utility company thing came. It's a pretty good sized limb. That's what she said. You can see it did bust the electrical wire there. This is probably a PSENG inspector just surveying and reporting back to see when they could bring some kind of machine over here, like a cherry picker. This is the area that it usually messes up at. As you can see those, I guess it might be live wire. It's hanging there. This happened just as the storm was getting started. I was like, well, it's not going to be that bad. Sure enough, we lost power for the whole night. And you're probably thinking to yourself, oh, poor Henry had to endure no power for 12 hours. No, no, no, no, no. I'm a YouTuber and I've reviewed tons of electrical generators and power stations. You guys know how many I have. I've got like 10. And I've also built homemade power stations using 12.8 volt, 100 amp per hour, big batteries, LifePo4 batteries that I've made with inverters and voltage controllers and solar panels on my shed. I'll show you. As you can see, it's a complete disaster. I am surprised though, that no major tree limbs other than the one that we just saw has come down. But there are lots of stuff on my driveway. I did almost just wipe out on the way here. I was on my scooter holding my tripod in my left hand as I'm throttling. And then I'm about to stop. I'm going, I don't have any brakes on my right hand. It's on my left hand. Try to do a reach around. You guys know what a reach around is, right? Stop. Okay. Keep doing it. So I'm so surprised. The wind was going nuts last night. I was thinking to myself, oh boy, I definitely lost a shed or two, right? Well, waking up today, all is good. Yeah. See from past experience, I've actually weighed down a lot of stuff. Oh, hi Boba. Hey, you're going to tell everybody how you like your blackout? Do you like the blackout? Huh? Ooh, that was a good time. I could do a slow-mo. Anyway, as you can see, I did this this summer. I got four solar panels on this storage shed and inside the storage shed, as you can see, I have my own power station over here. Got the LifePo4 12.8 volt, 100 amps per hour LifePo4 battery. That's hooked up to the power inverter. That's hooked up to the voltage controller. That's hooked up to the solar panels. And it is currently powering my refrigerator. And it's been powering my refrigerator for a bunch of hours and look, still looks like it's full. You know why? Because the solar panels, even though it's not sunny, not by a long shot, just having daylight is recharging this battery. So this is free power to power my refrigerator. So I just ran a wire into the house and into the refrigerator. But Henry, what about your internet? Well, I've thought about that too. As you also know, this summer, I also did this one. This is two LifePo4 12.8 volt, 100 amp hour batteries wired up in parallel. So it maintains the 12 volts and it converts it into 110 AC with this. And this is powering my internet. And as you can see, it's barely moved. I've been watching TV for a couple hours already and it's only using up 110 volts. That's it. So this is hooked up to a wire that goes to this power strip that powers my router and internet. And the eight or 10 power stations that I have, like these, this one's kind of dumb because it only allows you to charge it up via 12 volt, like from your car. And this one here had like an E6 error, which I don't know what it means, but I think it's a control board. So I never really used this. And when I was ready to use it, it has an E6 error. So some of these things are not very reliable. But the other 10 I have in the house charged up my phone, my lights, you know, a lamp, a floor lamp. None of the smaller ones like this size was able to make me a cup of coffee from my current machine. However, my big one, the 3000 watt one, no problem. So we made coffee. I've got that thing powering up my TV, my Verizon router and the Verizon box out here. So I have internet and TV. What else do you need really? The shed with the solar panels in the backyard is powering up my fridge so I don't lose any food. So lights, internet, TV, food, coffee. That's all you need, really. I haven't had to power up my gas generators yet. I'll do that when I deplete all the energy from my power stations. But I think the refrigerator will be good because those four solar panels are generating enough electricity to recharge that battery to power the refrigerator. So that's all set. I like that a lot. That's really cool. Well, you never have to worry about the lack of power or running out of power from power stations if you have a long duration blackout or power outage. So I just found this in the back shelf. I opened it to do a review, but I never actually used it. And it's a decent size one. Let's whip this out. Excuse me while I whip this out and see if it works well. So this has been sitting on my shelf for, I don't know, two years or so. I just turned it on, but it doesn't show the percentage of power. It just says 922, 23, 6 and 1. I have no idea what that means. You know what I mean? I want to try something. I want to try like an appliance or a tool to see if it works. Actually, I have a review that I have to do. What better way to integrate this product into my situation? This is a Jorgensen multi-tool plug-in to 110 AC. You guys know what multi-tools are, right? It's a very versatile tool that you could use for pretty much anything for cutting, sanding, grinding, that kind of thing. Opening it up, it has a nice little vinyl case with a zippered enclosure. Velcro strap to keep it in there. And there it is. Jorgensen multi-tool. Kind of cool. I have a couple of them. They work really well. Comes with different heads and attachments. This is the semicircle, almost 180 degree disc that you can use for cutting like vinyl floor tile, cutting plastic and shaping it into pieces that you need. I've done that trying to fabricate light lenses for lawn tractors. You have sanding discs, different shaped cutting implements, serrated edges on it. How this works is it vibrates like at a certain velocity and this vibrates it so fast that you can shape plastic, ABS plastic, PVC pipe. Here's the triangular implement that you put it on to put your triangular sanding discs on. It has the hook and loop in the back, you know, velcro. You're not supposed to say velcro, it's trademark, but hook and loop. So you can take one of these sanding discs on and the back is the hook and loop. You stick it on there like that, attach this to here. I haven't even read the instructions. It's self-explanatory. There you go. This is the clamp. Turn this all the way up here and this comes right off. Put it back on, close it down and secure. Now you just plug it in. Just kidding. Kidding. Think it'll work? Think this is going to have enough juice to power this? How about that? This thing's all right. Oh, here's a piece of wood. I'm going to demonstrate how the Multi-2 can sand it. And it's made very durable too. Let's do some sandage. Smoothage. What's on the other side? Oh, look at this. So look, you've got these screws that have gone in there, right? And these are completely dentsky. You can't get that out. So if you wanted to reuse this, let's remove this head. We'll try using this one. Like a cutting one. Check it out. You can also do the speed. Well, that didn't really work. Let's try this. All right. Maybe it's not meant to cut that. Look at that. You can also eventually cut through wood. There's PVC pipe. You guys get the picture? Yeah. So pretty good tool. You can use it for cutting pretty much anything. I'll probably use it mostly sand rotted decks and stuff. Get the paint off and stuff like that. Small jobs like that. If you guys are interested in the Jorgensen Multi-2, I'll leave a link in the description. There's literally a million brands of these power stations. I'll link some in the description for you. So hopefully that inspector came and he checked it out. Crews are on a way to clear out that broken limb off the tree. And hopefully we'll get some power. But even if we don't, I can survive for several days with all the equipment that I have. Still, let's hope it's pretty soon because I got an Oklahoma game I need to watch. Oh, I can watch it. I can go even after all my electric power stations run out because I have a 4500 watt gas generator and also one of these 2200 watt inverter generator. I'll use these when I run out of power. But I also have solar panels so I can charge up those electronics. It's been an hour. Still hasn't moved. This thing will last a long time. So are you guys prepared for these long durations of power outages? As you can see, I am. Don't you think you should be too? I'll leave links in the description to most of these things. All right, it's been a couple hours and they're here working on the transformer. We've got the road all blocked off over here. Especially this wire right there going into the water. That's scary ----. Wire. It's scary, man. You could die. See you guys next time on Lowers and Blowers.