Article: Night thoughts.

Brad Thompson, Contributing Technical Editor

At 3:22 a.m. the lights went out, triggering the alarms on our household PCs' UPSs and startling our cat, who launched himself from the bed and awakened me. After silencing the alarms and soothing the cat's jangled nerves, I lay awake thinking night thoughts and listening to the storm's winds howling through the pines and the sleet ticking on the windows.

Were we ready for a prolonged power outage? I hadn't tested our standby generator in months, and the transfer switch I bought a few years ago languishes in its carton awaiting installation. And were we ready for a larger emergency that would force us to ...

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