Hatfield
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I just googled homemade ice melt because I don’t have the proper equipment for all this stuff. [emoji23]
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Kitty Litter is supposed to work pretty good if a vehicle gets stuck. And I always try to put extra weight in the back of vehicles during winter time to help with traction.
I add about 200-300 extra pounds of weight in the backs of my vehicles in winter and it really helps. I usually buy something I am going to need anyway like 50 pound bags of Bird Seed or Sand or Top Soil. Then when spring rolls around I use it for its normal use.
If power goes out, I have candles ready (be careful) and flashlights and for extra heat I use gas fireplace and then I close off the other rooms by hanging a sheet down the entranceway to the room. I can get it nice and warm in the one room by duct taping sheets in the doorways and just heat the one room where the gas fireplace is.
If you have a gas stove you can run all the burners on top or the gas oven to get heat.
For cofee I use my propane gas grill outside and I heat water for soup and coffeee.
Been through no power so many times I have all kinds of things I try to remember to do.
Oh and of course I have a generator too and I use that to run my fridge and freezer. Those are the only things I keep going by generator.