Quote Originally Posted by Bogertophis View Post
That was good thinking to put snake in pillowcase & use your own body warmth...been there, done exactly that! (only with a BUNCH of snakes, each in
separate pillow cases & each in a protective ventilated plastic "critter cottage" under my down comforter with me. I lost power for DAYS in the '09 ice storm,
but naively I assumed my power would be back on much sooner than it was, as I live "right in town". It was actually weeks without power for many in this
area, as so many trees were down that blocked roads...crews couldn't get thru quickly to fix power lines...so I was actually "lucky" that my outage was 4 days!

Anyway, I first did as you did, but then had to go to "plan B" as I couldn't stay in bed all day (outage was at night); my hot water heater runs on gas, so I had
hot water (but just no power to keep my F/A heat on). I put my bagged snakes into ice chests (or styrofoam boxes, like they ship food in), only 1 to 3 per chest,
depending on size of snakes...not crowded or on top of each other...then into each ice chest a large jar of the hottest hot water, which I had to change only about
every 8-9 hours to keep my snakes a balmy 80* (roughly), and none ever got sick after this was all over...they did great! (I used 2 jars for my BCI, who needed
more warmth, but you get the idea?)

Heat packs are handy to have on hand too (I didn't at that time but I do now). Hoping you have a gas hot water heater (not needing electric)?
it was that storm indeed that I had in mind when I just ordered 30 heat packs from Amazon!

Awful for me, but interestingly, the dogs loved it! It was so quiet. And we slept on the floor in front of my wood insert every night. They thought we were having a party! Lol.

But it that insert, and the wood burner in the basement, plus closing off my bedroom and office at the end of the hall, kept my house at 60 degrees for ten days with no power.

thus, my healthy dislike for our local power service...