Need help, advice

[Bogertophis]

Do you have a gas hot water heater, by any chance? I went thru a 4-day outage in an ice storm with no house heating, only hot water. If you don't have a gas
hot water heater, start heating some water over candles if you have to, but get hot water and fill some jars/bottles with it.

Before I realized how long the outage would be, I bagged my snakes (separately) & put them in plastic ventilated containers under my down comforter with me for
heat...the outage happened early morning, & btw, you're lucky that you only have 5 snakes! I had 15 snakes, including a large BCI (boa) at the time.

Once I realized the outage was continuing for a long time, I pulled out ice chests (styrofoam shipping boxes work too) and put 2 or 3 bagged snakes of similar
size (so a large heavy one doesn't lay on top of a small one) in each ice chest, along with a large jar or 2 of hot water, & kept the chests closed for 8-9 hours, at
which time I changed the water. The ice chests remained 80-82* all that time, & fresh hot water every 8-9 hours was all it took to keep them safe & healthy.
BTW, I put those ice chests on my couch & insulated around them with pillows & blankets, to keep the heat inside. It all helped...

Another method that works too is using the heat packs used in air shipping reptiles...(or chemical hand warmer packets, like hunters use), but this takes advance
planning to have them on hand... Where you live, I hope you have some of these things on hand...?

During that ice storm my house got pretty cold (about 45* & I didn't even lose any food from my fridge & freezer: frozen food I put in another ice chest on my
front porch (it was freezing or below outside), & all the cold food was fine in my garage which stayed about 40*. But sadly I know that many who had snakes in
the wide area affected that year lost many to the cold & subsequent illnesses...I hope you & yours will be ok.