# Tandem Control IQ **URL:** \ **Category:** Pump\ **Created:** [January 28, 2020, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/tandem-control-iq/9219 "2020-01-28T19:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 81
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That’s my other current concern - what do you do to prep for a power outage? I ended up buying a little transistor radio with a crank and a battery … $15 on Amazon. Will probably never use it … (I hope). > [@Are you prepped for a power outage? What did you do to get ready?](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/are-you-prepped-for-a-power-outage-what-did-you-do-to-get-ready/15182): > > We had a power outage last night starting about 9.30 pm. It was throughout our neighborhood - everything was pitch dark. No internet. And the times being what they are, I realized that we had no idea about what the cause of the outage was. Back in the day, everyone had a little battery-powered transistor radio. We don’t have those anymore. So we didn’t know if the outage was in our town or in all of Boston or across the eastern seaboard. It turned out to come back on a little later, altho… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/tandem-control-iq/9219)._