They are simple and everyone can do them. It may not be convenient for a bit but when you and the family are shivering, praying for the power to come back on, you will be grateful for these reasonable tips!
Move to One Room
Instead of trying to heat the whole house, focus your attention on heating just one room of the house. Everyone’s body heat in one room is a great help to keeping everyone warm. Try to pick a room that gets a lot of natural sunlight and has a heating source. Ideally, you would pick a windowed room on the southwest side of your home.Shower Curtains Over Windows
You’ll want to keep heat in your room but still allow natural light to enter the room from a window. A great way to help you do that is with a shower curtain. Remove the shower curtain from the bathroom – without power no one is going to want to take a cold shower anyways. Carefully tape or attach the clear shower curtain to the wall so that natural light can come through the curtain but it prevents hot air from leaving through the window.Rugs or Carpet
Make sure that heat isn’t escaping through the floor either. Take rugs and mats from around the home and lay them down in your room. Add a few layers between you and the cold floor.Put on a Hat
“[The] reason we lose heat through our head is because most of the time when we’re … in the cold, we’re clothed,” said Richard Ingebretsen, adjunct instructor at the University of Utah School of Medicine. “If you don’t have a hat on, you lose heat through your head, just as you would lose heat through your legs if you were wearing shorts.”Leave During the Day
You don’t want your home to become a cold dungeon. Make the family go outside and soak up the rays during the day. Obviously, if there is a winter storm, you’ll have to stay indoors. But make the house a warm location to return to at the end of the day instead of a cold jail.
In other words, use common sense! Together we can beat the cold without driving up the power bill with just a little effort. It may not seem such a big thing now but later, if ever the grid goes down, you will be grateful for these solid options!
There are plenty more ideas! Go over to SHTF Preparedness and check them out. If ever you’ve felt deprived when told never to eat before you go to bed – you will love number ten!
Carra Sallaberry
Generater and diesel heater
I ain’t gonna worry about it, in south central Texas !!!
Just be careful of carbon monoxide with a diesel heater. I lost power during a snowstorm last year and used a generator to power electric space heaters. Don’t out out the same BTUs but kept the room we stayed in around 64.
Wear clothes. Running around 1/2 naked won’t do you any good. You’re welcome.
Propane and propane accessories
Fire up my generator and run extention chords inside. I can power, fireplace, lights, pressure tank for water, tv wifi, freezer and a Lil toaster oven. Did this during an ice storm.
Propane heat. Propane emits carbon dioxide which in elevated levels can still make you sick but is a fraction the lethality of carbon monoxide
Propane produces carbon dioxide when burned. Much much safer than carbon monoxide from diesel and gasoline generators and things of that nature . I agree with you
Close off rooms not being used, don’t open doors or windows to the outside to go in and out unless necessary, keep refrigerator door closed, have a back up heat source that heats with ready available fuel like wood, have ready a solar generator to run important devices like small appliances and to charge your phones, have plenty of candles and or oil lamps, have a gravity feed water filtration system for clean drinking water, also have a supply of long shelf life food and bottled water supply.
A 10,000 watt generator will run most houses adequately in an emergency.. I am hardwired into my circuit breaker panel and all I need do is trip the main breaker and plug the generator in from the well ventilated garage, Lock out the main if possible or place a sign DO NOT ENGAGE MAIN BREAKER! A decent generator will run about a thousand and wiring maybe a hundred more. You can get by with a 3500 watt size for under $400.00. You must time share different appliances but what to hell, you are not freezing! Try to get a 220 volt gen so as to operate both legs of your breaker panel if you are going to plug your gen. to a 220 volt outlet! If any doubt exists, consult an electrician to be safe! In your absence, do not leave the generator running for safety reasons. My money is on a generator for any seasonal power outage.
GENERATE AND HEATER..^!*