How To Survive The Big Freeze
by doug - 2026-01-22 08:43:19 ( in life, weather, advice) [php version] rebuild
Great ideas and tips.
It reminds me of the Amish home I was invited into last week when it was about 25⁰. It was very nice and toasty. As you know, they use their big iron stove to also heat the house.
I like the tip to set up a tent to contain the heat.
I already replaced the mixture of PVC pipes and copper tubing with PEX over the last two years. But there's a spot where I have the galvanized pipe from the city water coming up below the house about 3 feet and I'll cover that up.
We're going to fill 35 gallon trash cans with water and line them up in the hallway. Should be plenty to flush toilets and to purify with our Berkey.
Good luck!
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 9:12 AM, someone wrote:
some good tips!
Dan is out getting gas for the snow blower. we have a backup battery that we use just for the fridge, if we need it. though that's a good reminder. just keep food out in the snow!
we have ham radio stuff and Dan is certified. it's just for emergencies though.
we keep jugs of water to flush the toilet just in case. we have a water cube thing for drinking water and a big barrel of water that we have never had to use.
we use a camp stove though someday if we have to replace the wood stove, we would like one we could actually cook on.
we have had to replace PVC pipes with pex. when our pipe burst our first year in upstate NY, we saw a graveyard of broke. pipes next to the broken pipe! the owners before us were so lazy and stupid :p we have been fixing their terrible choices these last few years. Dan's next project is to flip all the upside down outlets. lol
anyway, I really like watching live weather reports by Ryan Hall, Ya'll on YouTube. he has a team of storm chasers so he gets on the ground coverage:
https://youtube.com/@ryanhallyall?si=MLqFIBUsGkK4Jja8
stay safe, everyone!
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:51 AM wrote:
Here's another thing related that looks very handy.
I've attached a PDF prepared by someone who lives in upstate NY and has thought very carefully about what you can do to survive freezing temperatures with no power.
Received: 2026-01-22 18:55:27
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On Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 03:12:27 PM PST, wrote:
I would like to have a diesel generator, too.
To run the entire house would require something big like that.
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 4:26 PM, someone wrote:
we've talked of getting a generator. Some are tri-fuel. I like the idea of one that can use diesel. a person can make diesel fuel for themself (a teacher at school had a diesel truck and she had her students make it for her truck as a project)
On Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 02:14:05 PM PST, someone wrote:
Yes, we have extension cords and gas
On Jan 22, 2026, at 3:43 PM, wrote:
Do you have enough extension cords to run things?
I also just ran our generator and got a bunch of gas. We had to use it last winter for a few hours.
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 2:52 PM, someone wrote:
I just verified that our generator works properly after it just sat there in the garage still in the box the past five years. :). We always keep a couple of 5 gallon containers of water in the guest bathroom tub that nobody ever uses. So I guess we're all set.
On Jan 22, 2026, at 9:40 AM, wrote:
It reminds me of the Amish home I was invited into last week when it was about 25=E2=81=B0. It was very nice and toasty. As you know, they use their big iron stove to also heat the house.
I like the tip to set up a tent to contain the heat.
I already replaced the mixture of PVC pipes and copper tubing with PEX over the last two years. But there's a spot where I have the galvanized pipe from the city water coming up below the house about 3 feet and I'll cover that up.
We're going to fill 35 gallon trash cans with water and line them up in the hallway. Should be plenty to flush toilets and to purify with our Berkey.
Good luck!
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 9:12 AM, someone wrote:
some good tips!
Dan is out getting gas for the snow blower. we have a backup battery that we use just for the fridge, if we need it. though that's a good reminder. just keep food out in the snow!
we have ham radio stuff. it's just for emergencies though.
we keep jugs of water to flush the toilet just in case. we have a water cube thing for drinking water and a big barrel of water that we have never had to use.
we use a camp stove though someday if we have to replace the wood stove, we would like one we could actually cook on.
we have had to replace PVC pipes with pex. when our pipe burst our first year in upstate NY, we saw a graveyard of broke. pipes next to the broken pipe! the owners before us were so lazy and stupid :p we have been fixing their terrible choices these last few years. dan's next project is to flip all the upside down outlets. lol
anyway, I really like watching live weather reports by Ryan Hall, Ya'll on YouTube. he has a team of storm chasers so he gets on the ground coverage:
https://youtube.com/@ryanhallyall?si=MLqFIBUsGkK4Jja8
stay safe, everyone!
On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 9:51=E2=80=AFAM wrote:
Here's another thing related that looks very handy.
I've attached a PDF prepared by someone who lives in upstate NY and has thought very carefully about what you can do to survive freezing temperatures with no power.
On Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 8:41 AM, wrote:
Great ideas and tips.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/21oCxWf9xjnM
Received: 2026-01-25 23:43:19
And they make you prove your innocence rather than they having to prove your guilt. This causes anyone challenging this theft to pay massive lawyer bills, another complete scam.
Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?! Like everything else, they've flipped everything on its head and there is no such thing as equal justice under the law. It's a crime scene and the government is exactly the same as the mafia, but with even less morals.
If you didn't already figure it out, I'm no fan of government and think it needs to crash and burn completely to the ground.
People who think we need any government are "statists" and believe in the insanity of someone else having the right to rule over you. To the contrary, I don't think anyone has such a right.
On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 6:57 PM, someone <> wrote:
> Doug,
> Yeah, I"ve heard of a few people pulled over by the cops with tens of thousands of dollars and having it confiscated
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> On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 03:25:57 PM PST, ellie Lummus <> wrote:
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> You’re correct on both accounts Steve. You can buy property but the government can take it away. Mike and Matyi had a ranch down there and the cartel came in and stole everything even A/C units. Mike sold his 3 million dollar ranch for 300k a few years back. Even the Mexican nationals that are friends said don’t come down back when Eric Holder armed the cartels during Obama’s era. It used to be safe enough for girls to go shopping for the day in Laredo but not since the early 2000. I’d be very careful moving down there.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 25, 2026, at 4:43 PM, someone <> wrote:
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>> I would also worry about showing more than minimal signs of wealth when living in Mexico for fear of being kidnapped for ransom
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>> On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 02:35:40 PM PST, someone <> wrote:
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>> decades ago, I heard of people moving to the Gulf of Mexico. There was something about Americans unable to own land there but I didn't check into it. I would worry about taking much of anything of value down there for fear of gangs stealing it
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>> On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 11:54:24 AM PST, Virginia Womack <> wrote:
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>> I’m with you Steve
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>> Get [Outlook for iOS](https://aka.ms/o0ukef)
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>> From: someone <>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2026 11:51:37 AM
>> To: someone <>; <>
>> Cc: someone <>; Virginia Womack <>; ellie Lummus <>; Lucy Ang <>; Greg Holmes <>; Douglas Holmes <>; Matyi Specht Hord <>
>> Subject: Re: How to survive the Big Freeze
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>> more power (not meant to be a joke) to you who endure it. I'm a weather weanie and if we move (which probably isn't likely), I'd want one similar to be like Sac weatherwise but without liberal politics Kontrolling me and my finances
>> On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 11:25:57 AM PST, <> wrote:
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>> Pretty interesting to see so many not affected. Are they more rural?
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>> What's the reported cause of the outages? Ice knocking down trees?
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>> Just got in from a walk to our nearest forest - maybe 300 yards away. Very beautiful in its winter coat.
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>> On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 12:53 PM, someone <> wrote:
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>>> Snowpocalypse! :) Here's a map of power outages near us. Spring Hill straddles Williamson and Maury Counties. We're just barely in Williamson County. Luckily, we're okay so far:
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>>> [Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corp Power Outages](https://poweroutage.us/area/utility/454)
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>>> On 1/25/2026 12:32 PM, wrote:
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>>>> Sorry for the large picture , but I made it an attachment. So you don't have to download it.
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>>>> Just a picture of our snow.
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