Hurricane Dolly has landed, fortunately much to the south of Houston to the delight of those of us here. Hurricanes are a way of life for those on the Texas Coast and given the experiences of Katrina and Rita we keep a wary eye out when storms like Dolly begin approaching the Gulf Coast. Whenever I am facing the prospect of a storm like Dolly one of the thoughts that cross my mind has to do with what I can do in the event of a prolonged power outage. The longest I’ve faced in recent years is about 12 hours but we know that given severe enough circumstances those outages could far exceed that.
I am in an enviable position when it comes to battery life simply because I have some excellent mobile technology at my disposal, and a lot of it at that. Because of that when I tallied up how long I could survive a total power outage I was amazed at how long I could keep going on the blogging front. Here’s a list of what I added up:
MacBook Pro- 3 hours
HP 2710p- 10 hours (internal and slice batteries)
Lenovo IdeaPad U110- 7-8 hours (regular and extended batteries)
HP 2133 Mini-Note- 7 hours (regular and extended battery)
Fujitsu P1620- 10-11 hours (two extended batteries)
All told that’s a total of 37-39 hours I could keep going without the benefit of an outlet! Now connectivity would be another matter although I’m pretty well situated in that area too. Of the gadgets listed above all of them can be used with my Verizon v740 ExpressCard modem so as long as the Verizon network was up I’d be in good shape. Of course, if Verizon went down I have the fall-back network of AT&T and could use the HTC Advantage as a modem. I guess it’s safe to say I am as ready as anyone could be for such an outage.
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