Preparing for winter involves financial planning for heating costs, updating insurance, adding insulation, storing fuel, and ensuring vehicle readiness. Create a winter emergency bag with warm clothing, food, and water. Always anticipate extreme weather conditions and have necessary supplies at hand, including alternative fuel sources and emergency tools for your vehicle.
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Thwarting Disaster
Earlier this week, on my other blog, Author Cygnet Brown, I told a story about resilience and how it helps us get through bad times. Check out my post When All Hell Breaks Loose to understand the psychology of resilience. There I told the story about a situation that I faced at the end ofContinue reading “Thwarting Disaster”
How Prepared Were We For Our Most Recent Cold Weather?
Often the best time to evaluate what we need to do to prepare for cold weather occurs after we have just gone through a bout of bitter-cold winter weather. So today, I am going over what we did, how it worked, and what we’d like to do to improve our ability to beat the cold.
The Perpetual Homesteader 