Alternative Heating & Cooling Needs – National Preparedness Month

Part of preparedness is about personal care and personal care is about ensuring that our basic needs are taken care of, like heating and cooling!

This will be our first winter in Alaska and it’s gonna be cold. It’s a good thing we have this wood stove!

We just cleaned it out and got the space all ready to go. It had been about three years since it was last used, but even if it had only been a couple months, we would have certainly cleaned the gunk out.

We’ve been busy getting lots of firewood ready to go and I’m feeling confident in our abilities to keep our small space warm and toasty throughout the winters.

We’re all set with warm clothing, zero degree bags and plenty of warm beverages. In addition, we also have alternative heating options such as a buddy burner.

We also plan to make a wood stove from an old propane tank that will go in our shed.

Our cabin is well insulated from top to bottom and retains heat very well.

How are your heating and cooling options?

• Do you have alternatives?
• Is your wood stove or fireplace cleaned?
• Do you have enough fuel sources?
• Are your carbon monoxide detectors working?
• Fire extinguishers in good shape?
• Do you have enough fans and ways to power those fans?
• Enough water and plenty of beverages and food sources?

Look around your home, look at your seasons and think carefully about your heating and cooling needs and have a variety of options available to you.

This is in collaboration with:

@the_preppyredhead
@muthaprepper
@thispreparedlife
@ourbusyacre
@foxcreekhomestead
@hoodoomountainmama

Also be sure to check out the National Preparedness Month Collab on YouTube: