Prairie Fare: When the lights go out

Keep food safe during power outages

I must have unplugged the vacuum, I thought to myself when it suddenly stopped working.

I walked over to check. The vacuum was still connected. Maybe I blew a fuse.

I flipped on a light switch to go to the basement. The lights didn’t work, either.

We were in the middle of our first winter storm of the year. Since my cell phone worked, I learned our home was among ab…