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Thread #149449 Message #3476918
Posted By: Janie
07-Feb-13 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: Big snow forecast for New England-Fri
Subject: RE: BS: Big snow forecast for New England-Fri
Run for maeve's, Jeri. They are gonna be plum cozy.
I posted this once before, but it didn't take. Y'all northern folks all stay safe!
Jeri,
I have one of these just for times when the power goes out for several days due to ice storms. Cheap. I don't eat much stuff out of cans, but do keep stuff like canned beans and corn, Uncle Ben's quick cooking converted brown rice, canned chicken and tuna, hearty soups, and "shudder" boxes of mac and cheese mixes, evaporated milk, quick cooking oatmeal or cream of wheat, etc., on hand for emergency supplies, as well as a small single cup cone coffee filter. Stuff that can be easily be made into small one-pot meals and that doesn't require refrigeration when the power goes out for extended periods, and that doesn't take long to cook. Those little propane cannisters aren't cheap, so I don't want to set something cooking that is going to take time and propane.
I also have a couple of small propane heaters that a 1 lb bottle of propane screws into. My house is small, and so are the rooms, so one room can be closed off and kept warm enough. Won't keep the pipes from freezing though.