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lost power--wait--NO HEAT! EEEEKKKKK!

Pal-O-Mine

Pal-O-Mine

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Okay, something happened today that brought to my mind a whole new facet of owning snakes.

Some of you may have heard about the blizzard the East is experiencing. Well, this morning just before I headed out to the barn to do horses, we lost our electricity. Now we've lost power before, usually from a tree falling on the lines and its just been for a short amount of time. But something made me think we were going to be out of power for a while. So I rushed outside to feed horses, turn out and muck stalls and barked at hubby to fire up the woodstove in the basement which is normally an icebox anyway. When I had finished with the horse chores about 45 min. later, the power was still out. So I shed my insulated coveralls and boots, grabbed Fran out of her tank which was starting to feel rather cool and shoved her down my shirt. I then covered up on the couch underneath a sheepskin blanket ( which is really 4 sheep stitched together so its huge) stuffed the little cat under it with me and re-discovered books.

The electric was out for 3 hours. The house was rather chilly by then even though the woodstove was roaring because we couldn't turn on the vent fan ( which also ran on electricity ) to blow the warm air up into the rest of the house. I was glad that I only had 1 snake!

What do you do when the power goes out and you have mutiple snakes???
What if you have vipers??? Does everybody have generators or what???

Devon
 
I have been through this. It was tough for every one. Remember the ice storm that hit the north east back in mid December. We had no power for 5 days! That was scary!!

Average temp in the house for those days was around 45 degrees! I didn't have a generator or a woodstove and everyone I knew, was in the same boat.

I had no idea what I was going to find in my tanks when we came out of it. Fortunately, all my little buggers did great! I had to skip a feeding until they all came back to temp and readjusted. No one got sick or anything.

Goes to show you what kind of resilience these guys have!

It was a scary situation,

Wayne
 
My boyfriends got some device that is used to jump car batteries...but it's also got outlets on it to run small electrical devices. This is my plan for the more temperature sensitive snakes I might someday have. My biggest worry is not getting to the snakes in time (like once this winter I was at work, came home and the power was out. I had no idea how long it was out for.)
 
Pal-O-Mine said:
Okay, something happened today that brought to my mind a whole new facet of owning snakes.

Some of you may have heard about the blizzard the East is experiencing. Well, this morning just before I headed out to the barn to do horses, we lost our electricity. Now we've lost power before, usually from a tree falling on the lines and its just been for a short amount of time. But something made me think we were going to be out of power for a while. So I rushed outside to feed horses, turn out and muck stalls and barked at hubby to fire up the woodstove in the basement which is normally an icebox anyway. When I had finished with the horse chores about 45 min. later, the power was still out. So I shed my insulated coveralls and boots, grabbed Fran out of her tank which was starting to feel rather cool and shoved her down my shirt. I then covered up on the couch underneath a sheepskin blanket ( which is really 4 sheep stitched together so its huge) stuffed the little cat under it with me and re-discovered books.

The electric was out for 3 hours. The house was rather chilly by then even though the woodstove was roaring because we couldn't turn on the vent fan ( which also ran on electricity ) to blow the warm air up into the rest of the house. I was glad that I only had 1 snake!

What do you do when the power goes out and you have mutiple snakes???
What if you have vipers??? Does everybody have generators or what???

Devon
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We lost power last night around 9 and got it back about 12 hours later. I immediately moved the cats into the warm room, which is also where the snakes are.

I dont have heat when the electric goes out because my furnaces light by electric. The thermostats are also electric powered.

I knew theyd be ok overnight, no one was digesting, but this morning I was going to put the fireplace on and move all the animals into the living room to warm.

You can get a kerosene or proprane heater too, in case of emergencies.

Keep in mind, when you pick up a cold snake and hold them, they are not cold after a few minutes, your body temp is much warmer then what they require.

Its not a fix if you have 10 snakes, but Id cuddle them if I had too.
 
medusacoils said:
I have been through this. It was tough for every one. Remember the ice storm that hit the north east back in mid December. We had no power for 5 days! That was scary!!

Average temp in the house for those days was around 45 degrees! I didn't have a generator or a woodstove and everyone I knew, was in the same boat.

I had no idea what I was going to find in my tanks when we came out of it. Fortunately, all my little buggers did great! I had to skip a feeding until they all came back to temp and readjusted. No one got sick or anything.

Goes to show you what kind of resilience these guys have!

It was a scary situation,

Wayne
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This is just what I was going to ask about, so I'm glad you posted. I live in NH too, and the ice storm was on my mind. I'm thinking about getting my first corn, but I'm thinking spring would be safer to start since we keep getting hit with all this snow and ice.

I was sleeping on the living room floor in front of the propane fireplace as it was, but I still had to go to work & wouldn't be able to call out for 5 days to snuggle with my snake!
 
A 12v car battery and a cheap power inverter is the easiest emergency backup. Most car batteries have about 100 amp hours so theoretically you could run 4 UTHs at 15 watts each for at least 2 days.
 
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