Actually fic related.

[impulsereader]

Though it is a weird, random sort of question. Do you keep emergency candles in the house, and if you do, where do they live during times of non-emergency? Not zombie apocalypse emergency, just power outage emergency.

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[litlover12.livejournal.com]

I don't think we do. We have emergency flashlights in the drawers of the bedside tables.

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Not weird to me. We have lots of violent storms, and hence a fair number of blackouts. ;)

The candles in my house (really just extras from decorating, etc) are in a kitchen drawer. In my parents' house, in a drawer of the china cabinet or under the sink. Of course, we also have a fair number of useable oil lamps about (for decoration, but also functional for reenacting and blackouts), so the biggest scramble when the power does go out is not for candles, but for matches!

[chloris.livejournal.com]

I don't know if we have emergency candles but all our candles are kept in a cabinet in the dining room since that's the room where we are most likely to actually use candles. As for flashlights, they tend to end up wherever we use them last which means I have no idea where they are! Though we do have a battery powered lantern we keep in the garage with the camping gear. I don't know if that helps. :)

[pargoletta.livejournal.com]

I do, actually. They live in the drawer next to the refrigerator.

[azriona.livejournal.com]

Emergency candles, no. But we do have random votives around, usually for use in the bathroom. I've got flashlights scattered around the apartment, and we use those for blackouts, except Andrew keeps finding them and playing with them, so it's something of a game trying to remember where he's stashed them.

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

I remember my grandmother having a candlestick and candle, plus matches, by the bed in each bedroom in case of power failure. We were fascinated. My father always had a pack of candles on a shelf in the garage when we were kids (the tall one, up high, a way from children where often our medicine was put when we got a bottle of antibiotic from the doctor) and now it is kept somewhere in a cupboard in the kitchen. I have votives around the place, but I also (like others who have responded here) have a torch in each room; one in the living area (a solar powered one that keeps itself topped up) and one by my bed. I also always carry a small torch in my rucksack, and have had to use that in anger as the power often knocked out when I am staying with garienos when they get thunder storms round here.

[entangled-now.livejournal.com]

We have candles, and torches, in a drawer in the living room, there are some in the kitchen too!

[northernwalker]

NO CANDLES!!!!!

Seriously, not safe. Save them for romantic dinners. That's what my Community Emergency Response Team training taught us.

I have flashlights in every room that live in specific spots. The bedroom electric lantern is on the dresser, there's a heavy-duty flashlight right by the front door, a small one in the kitchen by my blender, a small one in the bathroom by the sink and a mini one in my purse.

[f-m-r-l.livejournal.com]

In the pantry above the emergency water supply. Also some in the shed with other disaster preparedness items. Three different kinds of flashlights magnetized to the refrigerator, with another flashlight and a lantern in the shed with other disaster preparedness items. Plus, of course, there's the flashlight function on my phone and dinner candles in the sideboard.

I blame one too many weeks snowed in out in the middle of nowhere. It's amazing, when one needs it, how much a candle can contribute in the way of heat.

[djarum99.livejournal.com]

Junk drawer in the kitchen, along with the flashlight. I know I'm late to this party :-( Just got back from getting my mom set up at home after four weeks in the hospital and a rehab facility, so I'm still woefully behind on the intarweb doings. Hoping to catch up, again, this week, maybe. Laundry. Must do laundry.