Mayo Clinic “Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs when carbon monoxide builds up in your bloodstream. When too much carbon monoxide is in the air, your body replaces the oxygen in your red blood cells with carbon monoxide. This prevents oxygen from reaching your tissues...
National Institute on Aging If you are like most people, you feel cold every now and then during the winter. What you may not know is that being really cold can make you very sick. Hypothermia is what happens when your body temperature gets very low. For an older...
PrepperHelper.com When the potty won’t flush? When the electricity is off, most toilets on city water may work for a short while, but wells operated by an electric pump will not. So what happens when the potty won’t flush? If the toilet still empties, you can use it...
University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service Safety is of prime importance in a heating emergency Your chances of freezing to death in your home are small. Fire, asphyxiation from lack of oxygen and carbon monoxide poisoning are much greater dangers. Carbon...
Winter storms, especially ice storms, frequently result in power outages because the weight of ice on trees and wires result in limbs breaking, whole trees falling over, and wires being over weighted by the ice. Now is the time to prepare for an unexpected power...
About the time you decide how to keep your family warm without electricity, stomachs will begin to growl. What to do and how? Deal with water first. Now you get to use that stored water you’ve put aside. When the power goes off, you may lose access to well water...
7 “C’s” for Keeping Warm - Last month’s article on preparing your home for winter reminded us of the importance of repairing doors and windows to eliminate drafts. Now we’ll address ways to stay warm during an extended electrical power outage where no generator is...
All the clean up you do in the fall will save you time come spring.
If you get to these winter-prep projects before the weather gets nasty, you will enjoy the work more and help extend the life of your home’s components and make your property safer as well.
Have you had an opportunity to be thankful for some of your preparedness activities? Recently traveling to see family and friends after a year, we had three I’d like to share.
