Power Outage.

Last time we had winter weather like this, the town froze and we lost power for several days. What should I do if this happens again? Thanks in advance...


-Will

Snuggle up w/ the boys.

LOL Randy..I read this on another forum that you can use those 20+ hour heat packs that they use for shipping to heat the cages. Sounded logical enough to me... I would give it a try, buy like 10 of them so in case the power outtage lasts awhile, you're set..

Jennifer

Other suggestions I've heard: use a kerosene heater to heat the room or buy a UPS rated at least 3x the total wattage of all your heaters for your snakes.

They're calling for it here in my area so look's like it's gonna be fun. NOT!! Good thing I heat with gas, at least I will still have heat in the house. We allready have about a 1/4 inch of the ice so far. FIgured I better get on here and do my stuff before we lose power.

Keep the Herps and yourself warm guy's.

haha. you guys read my mind. i was wondering last night what do i do if ther is a power outage like we normally have. i figured the cage would retain the heat for awhile and then hold it itil the the power is back. my house is heated with gas but i cant raise the temp to 84* for the snake. my parents would kill me. and make my pay the bill. when me power goes out its normally for 1-2 days. i think ill go out and buy some of those heat packs. where exactly could you get some? the local drugstore?

hehehe...sucks for you guys. shoulda moved to AZ. i havented even used the heat! :D but i wont be laughing during the summer :cry:
about the heat packs...you can buy them online. maybe you could get them at the post office? hopefully someone else will really know.

You can get them anywhere. I got mine at Walmart, I'm sure you can get them at a regular drug store (I don't think I've seen them in grocery stores like Albertsons).

LOL Mike, I was thinking the same thing, good ol' Arizona... :D..Hey at least it's a DRY heat in the summer, and not HUMID..:lol:

Jennifer

I've seen them at Wal-Mart too and I'm sure you could get them at a sports store, I use them in my snowboard boots and I've picked them up at sports places. If you run into an emergency and have no heat source at all, I've heard some people will start the car in the driveway and sit in the heated car with the herps for a while... I don't know though, taking reptiles outside probably isn't a great idea.

i used to live in AZ. i was born in pheonix. the heat is no problem to me. its the cold of washington that bothers me.

I'm still waiting on the "big one" to hit. Supposed to happen any minute now.

we have gas heat here, and would just blast it idf need be. I did have a heat / electric outage at an old apartment, I had to bag 63 different snakes and box them together by size, then throw in the heat packs. They all made it through (I almost froze to death) but even though they were surely uncomphtorable they made it. (I did luck out that none of them had transferable mites / parasites, otherwise it would've been much more difficult)
Rusty

Well, we were out of electricity for 5 hours. Glad it is back on. I was about to Murder a couple of kids. Didnt know how bad it could get with no electric. Had just put heat packs in with Monty under a towel about an hour before the power came back on. Guess I will make the boy put them in his gloves and go scoop the 1 1/2 inches of sleet, ice that we got today. And more to come... Wooohoooo

lol, feelin your pain in VA.

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They're calling for it here in my area so look's like it's gonna be fun. NOT!! Good thing I heat with gas, at least I will still have heat in the house.

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We have a winter weather advisory going here too, and what really sucks is that while our heat is gas, the furnace blower is electric, so to get warm you have to open the front of the furnace and put your hands by the flames. What's the point of gas heat if you have to have electricity to make it work?

Anyway, glad to hear your power is back on and everybody's ok, even if nerves are a little frayed.