Blizzard approaching, what to do if power goes out?

[Trinityblood]

ShipYourReptiles.com sells shipping supplies including heat packs. In a pinch for non-shipping purposes only you can use hand or sleeping bag warmers if you wrap them in a few layers of cloth.

I have tubs I use for transporting snakes to/from the vet and they have air holes in them.

You'll have a hard time with the fish if you lose power. You'd need a kerosene heater or Mr Buddy type propane heater to raise the ambient temp in the room they're in, but good luck finding one for sale in the state today. Oh, don't forget the CO detector either.

I'm reading reports out of TX where people have been without power or subject to rolling blackouts, or no natural gas because the power companies are pulling on it, and as a result they're dealing with frozen water pipes and homes with internal temperatures around 50*F. TX also gets 25% of its electric power generation from solar and wind, and either the wind turbines are frozen or not turning because there is no wind, and it's cloudy with snow/ice covered solar panels so they're not doing anything either. You have a perfect storm of peak demand with 25% of the generating capacity knocked out.

Awesome. Thanks for the website suggestion. I had been looking at amazon a while back but the listings look sketchy to me. Do you know what the shelf life of the heat packs are when stored? I'm having trouble finding that info.

My tank is only a 20 gallon and low bioload so I'm hoping wrapping it with towels and having two computer backup batteries will keep at least the filter going for a good while. It's also possible to float a hot bag of water to keep temps up...so long as the gas stays on to heat water. Maybe I strap reptile heatpacks to the outside of the towels LOL. Fish are much more complicated than reptiles. Boy are snakes easy!

That's where I'm at. I don't expect to find anything the next few days. Nothing is open because most people here don't have the tires for driving in snow or ice. It's insane that it's under 10 F and snowed TWICE this year. Once is unheard of except every 5 or 10 years. I'm waiting for the rolling blackouts to happen where I am. I'm worried about the pipes once it starts to thaw. I think my electricity is natural gas generated which is much more reliable. But like you said the demand alone can cause them to start rotating the grid.