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I hope that everyone stays safe during this bitter cold snap. Right now it is -3 in Youngstown, and feels like -24 with the wind chill. Please, if you have dogs or cats outside, please figure out a way to get them inside. It is simply too cold for these animals right now.

Please stay safe.

We slept in the livingroom on a futon mattress in the floor, close to the stove. I had to wake up every couple hours to feed it more wood.
Power came back on at 2:30 this morning. Thankfully.
I got up and went out back and killed the generator, plugged in the fridge, then went back to bed.
Got crap for rest last night but the house stayed warm. The food stayed cold.
It was a win.
There’s still about 39,000 people in town without power.

Tip to those thinking about getting a portable generator.

Plan ahead, or keep a 5 gallon can of gas full all the time. I keep one full with a little stabil in it, and every 4-6 months I dump it into the Jeep and go refill it.

Can't tell you how many people I know that have generators but don't keep gas for it, and then after the hurricane when even gas stations had no power for pumping, they were all in a panic.

I keep 5 gallons on hand and a siphon kit I can get fuel from our vehicles if need be.

That’s my grandparents old trick haha love it

Just to let people know .... there is a way to reconfigure your furnace to run on a car battery in an emergency.

Just one of those things you run across on the internet.