Staying Warm Without Power
Winter storms are notorious for under power lines and transformers. Sometimes power outages lasted several hours. Sometimes for several weeks. Be
Loan is always a good idea: a fuel generator and ready to go (and
not in the garage – keep it), kerosene stove, a nice grilled
Fireplace or wood stove pellets are good ideas.
Unfortunately
To prepare a backup heat source is not always an option, many of us by
Surprise, when the lights go out, filled the air, a heavy silence. How do you do?
If possible, please call the power company and how long you have no power. Do you know what you face is half the battle.
Evaluate what you need to stay warm. Collection of blankets, sleeping bags, winter clothing, and all the heating of AIDS (Chemical hand warm-up), you can find. Do you have hot water? Most of the empty glass bottles of hot insulation, you can show to warm.
A layer. Thermal underwear do you have? Start and add on top of layers of clothing. Wear a hat (the majority of body heat is lost through your noggin). Wear gloves. Pile on the socks. Do not worry as you are. All that heat alive.
Select a room. Your house or apartment room closed to make room for the rest of the house / apartment? Camp in this area. It will be easier to heat in a room together, such as the spread. Whenever possible, blankets, sleeping bags and extra clothing grouped.
Stay active. If too cold, you take your feet and walk. Rub your hands together. Just be careful not to end. They
want to sweat, as this can cause your body temperature
increases, and then when you began to collapse, you would be worse
to do.
Maintain a positive attitude. Maintain a positive mental attitude, doubled the potential to improve survival.
If the above does not warm the hand to your friends and family. Find a place to stay, where you can relax. Find ways to get to the hotel as a temporary power outage in the past.
You do not. Do not use your home oven. Do not use the house (or garage), gas stove or coal stove. It is important to keep warm, to stay alive even more. Carbon monoxide is a poison, hundreds of deaths each year accounts winter. Do not use a hot bath or shower, warm your body temperature drop stabilize at a lower level. If you have any doubts, clothing, sleeping bags, blankets, water bottles and said to the body heat to keep the Hot Rod.








