My power is out and I’m on life support. What should I do?

You should first refer to your dis­as­ter plan and call your home health nurse and physi­cian. You should noti­fy your fam­i­ly and/or friends and call EMS espe­cial­ly if your sit­u­a­tion is life threat­en­ing. YEC reminds mem­bers who have extreme crit­i­cal health needs that require a con­tin­u­ous pow­er source dur­ing an out­age, to make arrange­ments before the cri­sis to relo­cate to a place where those needs can be met. Anoth­er option is to make per­son­al arrange­ments for a gen­er­a­tor to hook up to machines that have to be kept run­ning. Gen­er­a­tors should nev­er be hooked into a home or busi­ness’ elec­tric cir­cuit. Gen­er­a­tors should only be con­nect­ed direct­ly to crit­i­cal care machines or oth­er appli­ances.