Build the outage evening around food security
A Labrador Retriever in a power cut is at less risk from darkness than from his own stomach, because an outage fills a house with exactly the things he raids: warming fridge food, takeaway boxes, and bins moved around in the confusion. Before anything else, put perishable food into a lidded cool box or a room he cannot enter, tie rubbish bags shut, and keep kitchen doors closed.
Feed his own meals at their normal times, weighed or measured as usual, and tell everyone in the house that nobody else feeds him — no toast crusts by lantern light, no 'he looked hungry' extras. Keep his water bowl filled and placed where people will not kick it over in the dark.
Settle him warm, dry, and close to the household
Put your Labrador's bed in the main occupied room, raised on blankets if the floor is stone or tile, and keep him out of unheated rooms he might choose out of habit. His double coat sheds water and insulates well, but a wet Labrador lying on a cold floor after a rainy garden trip will chill steadily. Towel him down thoroughly, especially the dense coat along his back and belly, before he settles again.
Use battery lanterns rather than candles, and set them beyond tail height. Guard portable heaters the same way, and keep charging cables and torch leads along walls rather than across his favourite routes.
Exercise the dog you have, in the space you have
If the weather or unsafe streets cancel his walk, a Labrador still needs an outlet or the evening fills with cushion theft, counter surfing, and relentless ball-dropping at people's feet. Use his own dinner for search games: scatter part of it in a rolled towel or across a patch of lawn during a lit garden trip and let him hunt piece by piece. Follow with a chew and a deliberate settle on his bed, rewarded when he stays, so the pattern becomes work, then rest.
Take every toilet trip on a lead until you have checked the garden by torch: Labradors swim, dig, and squeeze with enthusiasm, and a storm-loosened fence panel plus an interesting smell beyond it is an invitation he will accept.
Watch for the Labrador-specific warning signs
Contact a vet during the outage if your Labrador raids spoiled or rich food and then vomits repeatedly, develops severe diarrhoea, becomes wobbly or unusually quiet, or shows a swollen, tense abdomen with unproductive retching. Those signs need a phone call immediately, not a wait for the power to return. Keep your phone charged for exactly this, and your vet's number on paper in case batteries fail.
Also watch the quieter risks: a dog limping after slipping on a wet floor, a scald from brushing a heater, or paws cut on storm debris during a dark garden trip. Check him over by torchlight before bed — run hands along legs and belly, look at paw pads, and confirm he has drunk water and toileted. That five-minute check catches small outage injuries while they are still small.
One shared picture of what he has had and what he needs
The pattern behind most Labrador outage problems is duplicated kindness and missed basics: two meals and no water check, three garden trips in an hour and none before bed. A single shared note of meals given, trips done, and anything he may have eaten prevents both errors and gives a vet accurate information if he becomes unwell overnight. KinsLe's Family Sharing shows your Labrador Retriever's profile and care notes to the whole household in one place, so whoever is awake at midnight works from the same facts as whoever fed him at six.