Preparing For a Winter Storm

in life •  7 years ago  (edited)

It snowed this weekend. This is almost unheard of where I live. We are lucky if we see a few days of snow in January,

But November 3rd? Crazy!

As the days grow shorter and colder, now is the time to start thinking about prepping for winter. The Farmer’s Almanac claims this will be an especially brutal winter North America. UK Meteorologists hold high confidence that this winter will arrive earlier, and be colder and snowier than the last. It seems the entire Northern hemisphere is expected to be more frigid and wet. Crazy winter weather has a way of causing power outages, tough if not impossible driving situations, and other hardships that would be counterintuitive to running to the food mart for a stick of butter.

Now is the time to evaluate your current preps. And by all means, if you haven’t started prepping, now might be the time to reconsider, as the cold will be upon us faster than we think.

72 Hour Kit

At the very least you should have enough basics stashed away to survive at least three days. A box of untouched food and supplies for each member of your household with nonperishable food, water, medical supplies, and entertainment- face it, when people are bored they can tend to eat, and you don’t want your five year old raiding the Bug Out Bag before dawn and helping himself to all the MRE’s. Three each of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, along with “comfort food” and snacks. Chewing gum, hard candies, and trail mixes are good items for the “munchies.” Instant coffee, chicken bullion, tea’s and Tang are great items to keep, also. Keep in mind to have enough prescription medications stored in case of a prolonged power outage or natural disaster.

Items To Store in each 72-hour kit

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Excellent preparedness! It's always good to be prepared! @ironshield

Proper planning prevents piercing polar panic.

:)

And planning ahead saves the day @arbitrarykitten

Yes!

Last year I got snowed in for four days. It was awesome but I really love snow. Thankfully the power never went out. We are prepping right now. I bought a ton of bubble wrap to help insulate the windows and we're trying to find a kerosene heater as a backup in case power goes out. We had flakes of snow too which is also something that never happens this time of year. Should be interesting to see what happens...

I really love the snow, too!

The bubble wrap is interesting- I have always just used plastic sheeting. Does it insulate better? I was so unprepared for this snow that my windows have hastily placed cardboard and blankets over them at the moment! lol

I did research and a lot of people said try bubblewrap. I have two sets of sliding glass doors and last year they froze the house. I'm bubblewrapping the suckers this year to see if it works.

Okay. Cool, let me know!

@arbitrarykitten prepping TIPS for all is good thing. At least I NEVER have to contend with any Snow. In 20 years in Scottsdale I have only seen SNOW if I choose to drive to Northern Arizona. I am truly blessed by not having to deal with the snow.

Having an emergency kit is necessary even in the desert :)

WATER

Yessir. I mentioned at least one gallon of water per household member per day, but to consider storing as much as your space allows. Dehydration kills faster than anything except exposure

Thank you kitten, I am so Grateful for you and what you share....

I am thankful I have great things to offer you :)

Can you believe this weather?? I live a few hours north of you in Bellingham, and we got several inches of snow! @raised2b and I spent the weekend up in Whistler, Canada and it never went above 25°F. 😬 Brrrr

Anyway, really great article on prepping! You've got lots of great tips and ideas in here.

I thought I was hallucinating on Friday morning when I saw flakes coming down!

Yea, what's up with this! I know all those who I respect with the weather- hint: it's not the meteorologists, lol!- have been saying it's going to be a hard and cold winter, but I didn't truly believe it until this weekend!

I did not know you were so close! Very cool! We will have to get together soon- the ones I knew near me have left Steemit :(

I would love that!! I don’t know any other local steemians(except @raised2b), and haven’t had too much luck with bringing friends onto the platform yet. I know that @offoodandart also lives in the Seattle area. It would be fun to get together a little Seattle meet up!

Yes! We need to plan something, this spring after the crazy winter cuz I don't want any of us driving I5 in this weather unnecessarily!

Perfect - let’s shoot for spring! I hate driving in the ice/snow and so I’m totally on board with that plan. 😉

Sweet! In the meantime we can keep an eye out for others in the area, too!

Quite a hearty list there! It doesn't hurt to be prepared! So crazy that you already got snow! Brr!! Hopefully this list will help someone remember something they need to grab in case they do encounter a problem. Good job! :)

I know! I literally tossed cardboard and blankets over my windows because I haven't purchased plastic yet- I wasn't ready! LOL

Thank you!

Lol! Sounds so cold!! :)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Very thorough list. It's always smart to be prepared. You mentioned candles, I'd also suggest LED lanterns as a good emergency light source. You'd already have the extra batteries.

Good idea. And led lanters are completely hypoallergenic if you are sensitive to candles.

Oye! I am not looking forward to winter :-( I feel like winter sticks around here a lot longer than summer. Chicago gets so cold. I know there are colder places, but I take public transportation which means being outside all year long for a longer duration than I would prefer! KEEP WARM!

Oh, brrr!

I moved to a northern town one December 18th. Two days later I drove to work in the newly falling snow. I got stuck at work in a blizzard and had to leave my truck as it did not like the cold and died on me.

I took busses, had to get home before it got bad and I was sleeping in my truck!

First bus was ok, but took forever due to accidents from ice.

I was stuck downtown in the outside terminal for my second bus. There were hundreds of us waiting on our respective busses, freezing.

Homeless people came by each of us and gave us plastic grocery bags, showing us how to put them over our socks in our shoes to trap the heat.

This was so amazing of them. I will never forget this. They didn't have to be out there helping, but they were braving the wind and snow. For our survival.

Wow!! That's crazy! It's nice to see good in humanity!

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wow, last week it got into the high 30's at night, which is unusual this time of year... it's back in the 80's now :) stay warm sunshine

Yup, gonna be a cold one!

Thanks hun, you too <3

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Pretty imagen

Thanks!

winter is coming in hard here also.

Yesterday it dropped to 21 degrees (c).
It's gonna be 'long pants' soon.
aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

When I was little I used to wonder how women survived the winter with dresses. Little did I know how many layers they had under those skirts! They were warmer than the men by far!

My hatred of any temperatures below 20 degrees (c) means I (hopefully) will never see snow again..

Lol! Yea, I love the snow. But- only when I am prepared. I will definitely be retiring to a warmer climate, tho!

17 years of windswept farm, growing up - I have had my fill of harsh weather.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

I want to feel the snow ,, but never down in my city, if snow can be imported ...

I want to ask your help to edit my post ,, i just joined steemiteducation.

How to?

Thankyou.

We will talk in Discord- send me the link to the post you want help with please :)

I'm pretty happy I'm in a slightly too warm climate for that. I'm sure we will get some snow. We'll probably get some ice as well, but I doubt we would ever be snowed in so badly that we won't have access to most things for very long :).

I lived in Montana for a year for work, so I knew it snowed bad all winter. I was prepared for that.

I was not prepared for a June 18th overnight freak storm that dumped 8 feet on us.

Noone in town was prepared. It came out of nowhere, started at 1 am.

Killed the whole town for a month.

You never know...

I love the snow.... if I'm skiing or school gets canceled. Otherwise, no thank you!

hehe yes! Snow days! lol

All I can do in response to this post is nervously laugh. In my conditions, we are somewhat better off in that we don't have to rely on the city for power, as long as we dont run out of gas or propane or firewood. I am prepping for a couple weeks though, rather then a couple days.

For some reason my friend said that it was going to be a mild winter, but nope, harsh harsh harsh. We figured it out real quicklol.

You know, I heard rumors it was going to be an easy winter too. But all the ones I respect and have been around for decades say it'll be harsh, and after looking out my window at the snow accumulation near the ocean in the beginning of November, um, ya... Be be prepared!!!

I keep lookng outside at winter wonderland trying to convince myself there is not nearly 3 feet of snow

LOL!

I don't think that's going to be much help ;)

Yep the weather in the UK has turned no snow yet but don't think it's far off. Better stock up, have most things just not the water. But I live near a big hill so could always gather the snow and boil it on the fire :)

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Add in vaseline or a good moisturizing lotion too. :) Winters here in Pakistan have been less harsher from the past 2 years. We are hoping this winter will be a little colder. Summers rule here mostly so we want some cold. Send some cold here if you can please. :)

You are right- managing winters is easy if you prep for it the right way. Even though winters here aren't that harsh, there are 2 weeks that are quite tough and in those 2 weeks, it is the proper preparation that helps us us get through that time.

Oh, yes, lotion is a must! Every year right around this time my skin starts cracking! Thanks for the reminder!

I would love to send some cold your way, will FedEx ship this? ;)

Hahaha I wish it could :P

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Absolute common sense . ty