Alternative Lighting and Heat Sources
Much of our effort to warm our home is lost through improper or inadequate insulation and drafts. There are many ways to insulate your home and keep accumulated heat from escaping! Some city or other has a power outage in the dead of winter and as a result of it, a few people freeze to death. The victims are almost always older people who can’t get out, can’t create heat by alternate methods, and can’t move enough to create enough body heat to keep themselves warm.
Make sure you have non-electric lighting solutions in place just in case the grid goes down. If your solutions are battery powered, you will also need extra batteries as well. Oil lamps, flashlights, candles, and glow sticks are great emergency light sources.
It’s time to winterize your home and yourself! I’m definitely planning on doing something different this year. I just have to find out which option is best for my situation. Check out this article below for more information…