Don't be scared, Piggies! Be prepared, Piggies! You never know when you might need that glow-in-the-dark lettuce! It's Blackout Night! 🐹 🖤 🖤 🖤 🔦 🔦 🔦 🥬

With government agencies repeatedly urging the public to prepare for emergencies, prolonged power outages, threats to critical infrastructure, severe weather, cyberattacks, and other potential disruptions, perhaps it's time for humans and piggies alike to take stock of their emergency supplies. Whether the next blackout comes courtesy of a winter storm, an aging electrical grid, a powerful solar flare, malicious actors, or some entirely unforeseen calamity, a little preparation is never wasted.

History offers a memorable reminder. On November 9, 1965, the Great Northeast Blackout plunged much of the northeastern United States and parts of Ontario into darkness, leaving some 30 million people without electricity. New York City's skyscrapers went dark, elevators stopped, subway trains stalled, and millions of bewildered humans found themselves navigating a world suddenly deprived of electric power. There have been many subsequent and even larger grid failures!

Keep flashlights, spare batteries, battery-powered lanterns, drinking water, backup power, and essential supplies readily available. Stock up on extra emergency water, hay and pellets, as well as supplies for humans and other pets. We shall persevere!

Wheek! Wheek!