What to do in case of a power failure?

[PI-Thon]

Hi!
Yesterday night it was raining (freezing rain) and we had a short power failure. It didnt last long, 5 mins but it made me think what would I do if I had a long power failure to keep my snake warm (especially during winter) ?
I dont own a generator and dont plan on owning one.
What would you do?
Thanks,
Fred.

[FL0OD]

we had the same thing happen in Tulsa, Oklahoma last month. Unfortunately the power was out for 7 days. 600,000 people lost power in the worst ice storm in the states history. first i went to a local pet store that was running off of genterators and bought like 10 boxes of these. when those ran out i found a wal mart that was open and bought a power inverter for my car and ran an extension cord from the house out to the drive way and heated the everything like that. it was a major horror story and hope that i never have to go through anything like it again but we did what we had to do.

[PI-Thon]

yeah the same happened here in Québec, Canada in 1998. I've been 14 days outta school ( and without electricity) and we had to move out cuz it was too cold (winter -30°c), even my dog was freezing and shaking.
I wonder what I would have done if I had a snake at that time???

[littleindiangirl]

yeah the same happened here in Québec, Canada in 1998. I've been 14 days outta school ( and without electricity) and we had to move out cuz it was too cold (winter -30°c), even my dog was freezing and shaking.
I wonder what I would have done if I had a snake at that time???

Put him in your jacket.

But seriously though, up here in Michigan, where we've been experiencing weird weather this winter from 50's one day to -12 degrees (-22 wind chill) the next (that was 2 weeks ago) a generator is a good idea and almost mandatory if you can afford it. Luckily, we havent had any power outages this winter, we mostly get them in the summer storms, but it is on my shopping list. Check out the classifieds too.

[APBTOwner]

Living in the middle of no where this was a major concern for use too. We only keep two snakes at the house, the rest stay in the nearest town to us in a place we rent. About 10 miles away. Even by "town" its still only 1000 people, but it has more convinces then we do, so we decided to move the snakes there. Not saying the power cant go out there.

So, if the power goes out at this house, or were the snakes are kept, we have a large portable generator, a 3/4 ton 4x4 and a huge box of 30 hour heat packs.

I'm glad you brought this up. The winter and power outages clam people's collections every year. People need to be prepared that live in cold areas.

David.

[Jay_Bunny]

I hadn't even thought about power outages until I saw this thread. I need to invest in some of those heat packs like they use in shipping reptiles. How would you use those? One pack per tub and would you put the heat pack on the bottom of the tub (like tape it on) or would you put the pack directly in the tub with the snake?

[quinten801]

although i haven't been keeping snakes very long, My parents happen to be in the computer industry and I manages to grab one of their extra Ups's (uninteruptible power supply) you just plug it in the wall and then plug your thermostat into it and when the power goes out the ups keeps everything going until the power is restored, their kind of pricy though Im lucky we had an extra, and I would rely on it for more than an hour or two

[JoshJP7]

We had a power outage last night for 3hrs or so and I got my first chance at using my battery back up. Mine is pretty much the same thing quinten801 talks about and is made to back up a business sized server. Power wasnt out too long but my snakes had heat the whole time!... The battery back ups are kinda pricey(I think mine was like 500 & made my American Power Conversion) but if you got an incubator full of eggs theyre well worth it!

[Enve]

although i haven't been keeping snakes very long, My parents happen to be in the computer industry and I manages to grab one of their extra Ups's (uninteruptible power supply) you just plug it in the wall and then plug your thermostat into it and when the power goes out the ups keeps everything going until the power is restored, their kind of pricy though Im lucky we had an extra, and I would rely on it for more than an hour or two

Same here, I have 2 1000watt UPS just in case.

[APBTOwner]

Humm. Interesting idea.

I have not thought of that before, but its defiantly something to look in to.

Thanks for sharing.