Comments on: 5 Essential Pieces of Gear to Get You Comfortably through a Winter Power Outage

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:28:29 +0000

I once went on an educational course about seventy miles from home during a January.The car was overheating to the point of seizing so I found a farmers field on top of a hill and camped there for a fortnight. Most of my food was taken care of by heating it at the education centre but after1700 til 0900 I was on my own. To keep warm at night ( I was sleeping in a Vauxhall Viva Estate) I filled 3 large plastic lemonade bottles with hot water from the canteen and wrapped them in my sleeping bag. I was as warm as toast all night and washed with the same water and boiled it up on my primus for a cup of tea -it didn’t take long. The local Police stopped by after seeing me camped there and checked on me to see if I had croaked in the cold, they were suprised to find me drinking tea and watching tv on a 4″ portable radio/tv

By: rondell

rondell — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:59:28 +0000

i have a 9000 k gen also a few kerosene laturns, also have propane heaters to help keep warm.i’m going to make my own rockit stove soon too as i’m just getting started in this prepping stuff. any idea’s about getting started would be helpfull

By: carol

carol — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:12:13 +0000

Arizona iced tea sold at Krogers is in a hard plastic container.

By: kelley

kelley — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:34:06 +0000

never heard of Arizona water jugs and google doesn’t tell me anything either

whats up with that? lol

By: Tactical Intelligence

Tactical Intelligence — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:39:47 +0000

You’re welcome

By: jjj

jjj — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:09:14 +0000

Thanks for this! As a kid I never realized winter power outages were an inconvenience, since we always had food and water, and the huge stove in the living room was more than enough to keep the house toasty all day and night and cook all our meals. When I moved out, I was surprised to find it took more than a flashlight and a good book to get through a storm. And I know when I buy a permanent house, it’s GOING to have a big stove. (Or a good place to have one installed, at least.)

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By: Tactical Intelligence

Tactical Intelligence — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:32:45 +0000

Great story Ray! I love it

By: ray

ray — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:45:05 +0000

2 weeks ha. Try 3 months . About 3 years ago I was getting prepared to build my house on 13 acres of vacant land that I owned. I was staying in a 56 foot trailer off grid for four years until the county got after me to remove it. They did not like the fact that I was not paying taxes. So I said screw them, I burned down my trailer, sent my wife and kids to my parents 150 miles away and set up camp on my own property. On my days off I would drive down and spend time with the family. People found out at work and bet me That I cold not last the winter in the tent. I took the bet and the journey began. I stayed in the tent from August until the first big snow fall collapsed the tent. I came home from work and cold not find the tent from all the snow that dump on my property. After finally finding and digging for 20 minutes I said screrw it jumped in my sleeping bag and went to sleep. woke up in a sitting posistion because my ass had melted more snow then the rest of my body. I moved into an old van on my property by pulling out the back seat. I wanted to see if I could do it with no heat source so I did not use any heater. I used two sleeping bags inside each other and I was toasty as a bug. The only problem was for last part of jan and most of feb the temps drop to -20 c on a regular basis. I found that my face would start to get frost bite. I resolved this by pulling my bag up over my head and when the air got stale I pump my arms like a billow and get fresh air. I survived the winter no problem but getting dress was flipping freezing cold. You try to put on frozen hard pants after being nice and warm all night. Ray

By: Tactical Intelligence

Tactical Intelligence — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:02:23 +0000

Hey Lee,

Thanks for the link. I’m still not sold on this yet but am always open…