Getting snowed in might sound cozy and nostalgic to some. Maybe you even wished it would happen as a child!
Think about it: having a snow day and being home from school, spending the afternoon warm by the fire with your family, or outside trudging through the snow to sled or make a snowman.
Maybe you’d drink some hot cocoa, and the snow would miraculously melt the next day, and it would be nothing more than a day's vacation.
Unfortunately, being snowed in without power is another thing entirely, and surviving a blizzard without heating can be one of a terrifying experience.
You can never know how long you’ll have to wait it out and without electricity? Well, let’s just say you better have a plan.
Here are the things you need to consider if you want to survive a snow storm without any electricity. Take a look on the next page to find out.
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Wood stove!
Yeah, wood stove. Iron Pot belly stove. Most people do not build a fire place large enough to cook in. They build small ones like in a regular house. That’s not for cooking. So get a wood stove, make sure you have plenty of wood pre-split to last the winter. You don’t want to be in a winter storm cutting down trees and splitting wood.
I’ve done that more times than I can remember. Grew up in a little cabin in the Rockies. Always keep some basic baking ingredients and a pile of wood. It’s not that bad.
Wood stove canned and dehydrated foods lots of wood and water oil lamps with fuel or solar like i did golden. Been there done that many many times.
Live in Maine and sometimes go to Walmart just to see the panic shopping before a Blizzard comes in. In ice storm 1998 happened you could not find any batteries or generators for weeks. Cooked plenty of meals on the wood stove. Also a working snow mobile is not a waste to own.
It’s easy to buy and store about 10 pair of long (thermal) underwear.
Canned heat is good to store up. It burns a gelatin that is alcohol. Not toxic to burn indoors.
I’m from NW Iowa… these things are second nature to us here.
Propane is cheap right now. Having multiple heat and cooking sources are the way to go imo