Letter Re: Some Disaster Preparedness Information for Asthmatics

Hi Mr. Rawles,
My son has asthma and I have had the unfortunate experience of not having power when he needed a nebulizer treatment. Please inform you readers of the absolute necessity of having power inverters and testing your needed appliances before an emergency. Not knowing how sensitive a medical nebulizer is and knowing that some equipment is sensitive to modified sine wave power from the cheaper inverters was terrifying. Having the power out and an asthma attack at the same time was bad enough.The prayer that I said when turning on our only nebulizer plugged into a gizmo (my wife’s word, not mine) that was attached to a car running in the driveway with jumper cables was unique to say the least.

Buy good inverters and test [them with your various electrical and electronic equipment] before the storm.
I now have several and we insist on our young drivers keeping their cars full of gas.
My point in writing you was to inform your readers that everything in their house can be ran in a emergency. Nebulizers are not very power hungry and can be run with very inexpensive equipment. – GB