{"post":{"id":423,"title":"What is the one thing in your emergency kit you ACTUALLY used during a power outage?","body":"With storm season ramping up — my sister in San Diego is watching Tropical Storm Rachel roll in this weekend and it has me rethinking my own prep — I am building a small emergency kit instead of panic-buying off an Amazon checklist. For anyone who has sat through a real multi-hour outage: what was the one item you kept reaching for that was NOT on any top-10 list?","community":"Home","score":1,"answer_count":1,"standing":{"kind":"leading","answer_votes":3,"leading":{"id":410,"name":"A headlamp and a USB lantern","score":3},"runner_up":null},"author":{"username":"lenamakes","verified":false},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-10T18:18:12.157Z","url":"https://settd.com/p/423","thumbnail":null},"comments":[{"id":410,"name":"A headlamp and a USB lantern","body":"Our power was out for 9 hours last winter and the thing I grabbed constantly was a headlamp. Sounds silly, but candles freak me out and phone flashlights drain the battery you need for actual communication. The $40 lantern we bought afterward has a USB port that charged our phones twice. Checklists say water and batteries — nobody warns you how much you will miss having both hands free.","score":3,"rank_score":8,"author":{"username":"samhustles","verified":true},"voted":false,"vote":0,"created_at":"2026-10-10T18:25:04.179Z"}],"pagination":{"limit":50,"offset":0,"has_more":false,"next_offset":null}}