People are stocking up on groceries before the storm....

@4meAndyou as long as the electricity stays on we’ll be OK. I hope there’s no
Ice accumulating on power lines with the wind blowing it around. Would still have the gas fireplace with everyone huddling around it

@cherokeepatti You are so lucky to have that. I had a propane powered gas "wood burning look" stove once, when I lived in my old house. But I think it needed electricity to start up, so we bought a generator for emergencies. It wasn't very powerful...only operated the water pump, the fridge, and the electric...not the heat.

@4meAndyou got a small Coleman single burner to cook on if need be and a Coleman lantern, I don’t like to burn propane inside the house especially now with all these birds (not healthy for humans either). Have plenty of candles to burn and got batteries for my CD player-radio so that would be comforting when the power is out. When the ice storm hit there was nothing to listen to and the birds got quiet because it was darker indoors so all we could do is stay close to the fireplace and listen for the tree limbs breaking and crashing outside all around the neighborhood.

@cherokeepatti I did pretty much the same thing. I have an emergency radio now, lots of Tac Lights...(4)...AND a book light. No burning in here for me...makes me cough and sneeze. But I am all stocked up on food and batteries.

If we lose power to the whole town I cook on a little sterno stove.

@4meAndyou I can use Sterno in my rocket stove (it’s multi-fuel like sticks, pine cones, charcoal, etc.) & cook out in the sun room too, the Coleman burner likely would be used out there too since I don’t want the birds to breathe it.

@cherokeepatti Your little babies...you take such good care of them!!!

@4meAndyou They are part of the family. The boy was talking about the feral cat and said he wanted to bring it inside but I told him not with the birds and it’d probably slice him to ribbons if he tried to pick it up. We were talking about trying to get it to eat more often, I think someone else is also leaving some food out. After we finished one parakeet started saying “What will we do?” Several times. They have asked that several times when we are talking about what we are going to do that day or whatever. They don’t want to be left out I guess.

@cherokeepatti I wonder if there is some way to give him some heated shelter...I used to know a woman who fed feral cats and she kept a cat box...Igloo brand...like a transport box, right next to the house just in case they wanted to go inside.