The coldest weather in the last 20 years coming our way, tonight into tomorrow. Have you been to the grocery store? Forget the milk and bread, make sure you have enough toilet paper and batteries! Here’s a few more survival tips.
Change your furnace filter. A clean filter will help keep your home toasty warm in this frigid weather. If your filter is dirty and you have no spare, you can remove it and run the furnace without a filter for a few days.
If your thermostat has batteries – put fresh ones in. A dead battery can cause havoc with maintaining your homes’ temperatures. Also check the batteries in your smoke detectors and CO2 detectors.
Don’t fire up your fireplace if you haven’t had it cleaned. And in subzero temps, you will loose more heat up the flue than you gain in enjoying the blazing fire.
Pay attention to any water pipes that are located on outside walls. If there are cupboards you can leave open, do that to help warm air circulate around the pipes.
Keep garage door closed.
Make a pot of soup.
Protect little people and pets, limit their time outside.
Get a supply of jigsaw puzzles and good books for your time at home.
Hunker down – We’re Iowans – we can survive this arctic blast!
The coldest weather in the last 20 years coming our way, tonight into tomorrow. Have you been to the grocery store? Forget the milk and bread, make sure you have enough toilet paper and batteries! Here’s a few more survival tips.
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