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