Anyone having flashbacks to 1998?

What are you doing right now for last minute preparations? Or are you already well set?

What ice storm?

We ran out for some extra gas for the generator just in case but otherwise all is well 🙂 Everyone is home safe and sound - now to just wait it out...

Be careful all!
Clean out those woodstoves and have the ash ready to apply to slippery spots...or bags of sand/salt.

Oh and don't forget the ingredients for the french toast.
(eggs, milk and bread) 😉

for power outages, nothing close to me yet

http://www.hydroone.com/StormCenter3/

got extra crickets & silk worms for my critters, closed up less used rooms in the house, turned up the temp on tanks & house, bought extra wool, checked my batteries/radio/flashlights etc

We geared up this week and are all good for food and supplies. Broke out the Mexican blankets for extra cover. Just wished we had our own home so I could get a wood burning stove installed and a fire place. That is next on my list for the new year - Job and own home. Hope everyone is doing good and Merry Christmas 😀

I'm ready as I'll ever be -have been since we were without power for 2 Weeks during the 1998 Ice Storm...my family of 6. Now it's just the the 3 of us with 12 more arriving tomorrow lol!
Got my cell phone charged and all the batteries charged....even brought in the solar garden lights.
I have 220 liters of water and coolers ready in the garage for my frozen food if the power goes out
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I heat with wood anyway.

Well it's 4am, can't sleep due to the sound of ice rain pelting the house. Hubby was out on the roof this afternoon clearing off an accumulation of snow and ice (right now I'm very happy he did). Brought wood in too, not sure we could make it to the wood shed without skates. Wood stove is going fine, house is warm and so far still have power and internet.

Took care of laundry yesterday and have filled buckets of water in the bathtub. Son was supposed to fly in from Edmonton on Fri but missed his flight so now coming on Monday. At least he can stay with my sister in Ottawa for the night and hope it's ok for driving on Tues.

Take care everyone and stay safe.

Screwed my vacation. My driver now has to work.

This is a great chance to try your preps out folks'
IMO Its also a chance to educate and help out your neighbors.
The folks around you may have no power or no heat. Do you have local old folks all alone
A place to charge a cell phone, warm up or get a hot bowl of soup will make their day.
I think part of prepping has to be helping to educate others and in this way build community.

so far, so good, the one person next door and I had a chat to confirm things ready, as we share somethings, so far we still have power, extra preps done and ready for the moment

We have not even had a power flicker thankfully.
BUT, my cell has gone off since last night from friends and family who thought my prepping ways were "bat sh*t crazy" but today it's been "Can I drink the water? How do I get warm? The house is soooo cold!" I even had someone say "What? Put a pot on the BBQ? Huh!" when they asked me how to heat water and cook dinner in a pan/pot lol

My 2 older boys were looking forward to a 24 hr trial run, I told them to count their blessings that we have power!

Our power went out late Saturday night. I would have fired up the wood stove when I got up Sunday but it was on and apart from a few flickers it's been fine.
Plenty of downed branches but aside from that we're good.

6 hrs without hydro here in Hamilton (on the "mountain")...our tree out front cracking and dropping limbs...I think my husband was very glad his nutty wife is a baby prepper.
We were in the middle of making jerky when the power went out but the jerky was more or less done and ready to cool and package up for the freezer.
Blankets, flashlights, three dogs to snuggle for added warmth, camping lantern, giant economy package of hand/foot warmers and enough ready to eat food for a very long time...all of a sudden he was very grateful.
When the power came on he mentioned taking any overtime he can get so we can buy a generator and an electrician (licensed) he works with has volunteered to help him set it up (pony panel etc)
My dad was a licensed construction electrician...but he is retired and just doesn't take this stuff as seriously as he should so I can't count on him to give any advice on generators/hook up etc.

I'm in London and I filled an oil lamp and made sure the candles and flashlights were ready, but we got barely anything here. Hope everyone else fared well.