This is all awesome! Thank you!

I definitely felt like I was in the 19th century warming up water for my sponge bath 😶‍🌫️ For real tho, I’m going to check out the preppers!

Haha don’t be jealous, but I’ve had 3 days of power in over a week 😅 I definitely think we need to do better, we are not too far from a few little towns where we can get food/supplies but I still want to have a better emergency set up at home.

It’s definitely become more common and these outages are lasting longer it seems. I would love to upgrade our generator, but that’s a huge expense. Some day though it will be a must!

Yes it is!! I am loving reading through all these comments and taking notes! Mainers helping Mainers!

This is awesome! I need to get some better lanterns and heaters!

We have one and YES 100% a game changer!

This is a great list! We have a wood stove which is a life saver. Our generator does a decent job, but an upgrade would be great.

No power now for over 60 hrs…in Oxford county

We’ve got 3 dogs to take care of so going to someone’s house isn’t going to work. I’d rather stay home and figure it out with them.

She could use it on her covered porch

All three are very remote, Jackman definitely most. If I had to live that far away, I would pick Calais, the coast line over there is gorgeous!

The last outage we had, my friend had no power for 3 days and no generator or any heat. They didn’t have any issues, but the temps were a bit milder last week. Honestly I don’t know, it’s so stressful 😵‍💫

We have a wood stove that’s our primary heat and we supplement with oil, but our mom’s in-law suite is electric heat, so we need to keep her house warm. The indoor safe heaters look like a good option and maybe a camping stove for her. I agree that this will be more common, it worries me a bit. At this point I feel like we need to be prepared to live off grid for at least 2 weeks!

For us, no power means no water to trickle.

We are still out in Sweden, 50 hours here too, after 90 hrs last week with it. We had 2 and a half days before we lost power again. It’s been a tough couple of weeks. Very grateful for a generator and wood stove.

That sounds like us when we first bought our house, we quickly learned how expensive it was going to be to heat. We had to keep the house at 58 when we weren’t home and 64 when we were, it sucked. The next year we got a wood stove. 3 cords of wood for the winter and we supplement with oil. Our house is now at 68-72, we got 100 gallons delivered in November and we’ve barely used it!!

My son left his window cracked open over night last winter, burst the pipes upstairs and it was horrible! When we realized it was open we just closed it and assumed it would be fine. Came home from work to a nightmare!

Turn off the water! We have a wood stove and have kept the house around 65 during the day, we stop adding wood around 11pm and go to bed, by 5 am it’s about 55 degrees in the house. Without running the wood stove we would be in trouble. I would assume pipes would freeze.

Same here in Sweden

Oh man, so sorry. It’s been a rough few weeks for so many people. Hang in there.

Sweden is still out of power since about 6pm yesterday

Where are you at?

I’m in western Maine and we have power. The wind is impressive but not scary…yet. It’s pouring rain and about 50 degrees. Hoping it won’t get any worse.