Ice storm casualties

[kabuna]

So last week we had a big ice storm come through our area. When I found out I decided to move our tw snakes to my sisters house since she lives in town and is less likely to lose power than me in the country. Well they ended up losing power too and thanks to all the ice i couldnt get my car out to go check them till friday. So when I got there I was about 4 days to late and now have no snakes. I really hate the weather.

[gixxerrobballs]

sorry for your loss yeah mother nature sucks sometimes

[mechnut450]

man I be pissed and upset.

I know if we lose power here I got a sleeping bag that all the snakes are gonigo into and( ormy snake caughting bag for callls 0ansd the truck will be i nthe driveway running tro keep them warm. I hell i might even park it clsoe to the house and run a pip( heater core setup to the room ) with and cord/inversterto provid limited heat to the trailer.

OR worst case I take them all to the fire house and sit in one office with them .. ( and watch as everyone lese freaks out at the sight of slim ..

[grammie]

oh I'm so sorry for your loss.

[Melicious]

My heart goes out to you. I have quite a few of those warm-hands things for the snakes when it gets cold. I couldn't imagine losing my snakes. -Hugs.-

[kabuna]

Well I was trying to do the smart thing cause i figured since i am farther north we would get the worst. Now I have to explain to my 3 year old why he can't see "buddies" anymore

[DutchHerp]

I'm very sorry.

[Jsh]

Sorry for your loss but this was IMO preventable. I also was hit with that same storm as I'm located in Southern Indiana. Are local news was talking about this storm 3-4 days before it came which gives plenty of time to plan for this situation. Obviously you tried to do something by taking them where you thought all would be well but that didn't work out. When I herd about the possibility of heavy ice I went to wal-mart and got a box of heat packs as this was the only way I could think to keep my snakes warm with out a generator. I only have seven snakes so I figured the pack would work in a worst case scenario. Fortunately, I didn't lose power but I was fully prepared in case I did. Now if I had a room full of snakes I would just buy an emergency generator just in case something were to ever happen because a generator is far cheaper than the loss of a collection. I'm not trying to pick on you I'm just trying to state that it might have been preventable. --Josh

[iCandiBallPythons]

Where I live we rarely get snow or ice but when we do its always bad. And the first thing to my mind is a power outage so I made emergancy kits for my snakes. I bought some of those cheap styrofoam coolers, extra bags, and plenty of heat packs.

[hoax]

So last week we had a big ice storm come through our area. When I found out I decided to move our tw snakes to my sisters house since she lives in town and is less likely to lose power than me in the country. Well they ended up losing power too and thanks to all the ice i couldnt get my car out to go check them till friday. So when I got there I was about 4 days to late and now have no snakes. I really hate the weather.

Well I was trying to do the smart thing cause i figured since i am farther north we would get the worst. Now I have to explain to my 3 year old why he can't see "buddies" anymore

That so sucks!!! I am sorry for your loss... I am going to go out and get some heat packs just in case. I live in TX so an ice storm like that just aint gonna happen but we can loose power just the same in cold weather.