What to do in a power outage?

[infernalis]

I keep 2 propane heaters and 3 twenty pound propane bottles on hand during the cooler months. I can keep my whole house 80 degrees without power for days using propane.

[bcr229]

We would have to move all our snakes into travel boxes and keep them downstairs close to the wood stove. They wouldn't be at their ideal temperature range for a few days and we'd have to constantly mist them - the wood stove really dries out the air - but they wouldn't die from getting too cold either.

We do have a generator that was invaluable when we lost power for four days last summer after the derecho hit the mid-Atlantic region. Daytime highs were over 100*F for two of those four days, and we have two refrigerators and one chest freezer. Because of the generator we didn't lose any cold/frozen food, so it more than paid for itself.

[Stephan Grundy]

My snakes are in a room with a turf/wood-fired stove. It hasn't been much of an issue, since they're all Northern Europe/America temp-hardy snakes (corn, black rat, and Aesculapians - and our occasionally uncertain power supply is one reason I chose these species, aside from the fact that ratsnakes totally rock), and will be even less of one in future winters when they're brumating. But I do desperately want a dwarf retic, so I'm looking into battery-powered and backup generator options. Chill a corn snake all winter, you get a horny cornsnake in the spring. Chill a retic for one night...