So far ive learned...Sand or kitty litter on frozen steps or walk ways AND hand sanitizer for flames and Put your ice chests outside so it fills with snow or ice until you need it for frig stuff. Love People Sharing ❤❤

Nice to have "Flame Out Blanket" to smother a fire when doing any of this stuff. Small size, not expensive.

The incoming stormageddon brought me here.  Thanks for the tips. I have a feeling this will be a birthday like never before. Not sure my old self will make it. Guessing weeks without power.  Then they say snowmaggedon 2.0 is coming right after the first round.   May the good Lord protect you all.

What I appreciate about your channel is the willingness of your subs to share ideas, tips, tricks, etc-WITHOUT having a superior attitude.  The comments are shared with humility and the intent to educate and HELP!  Thank you all!

A warning about adding more alcohol to an already started fire or hot surface that flamed out can cause the flame to travel up to the bottle your holding and catch fire and worst case turn bottle into a flame thrower shooting a jet of flame out the opening.  Many injuries/death from this happening.  Never add alcohol to a fire or one that just went out.

A cooling rack over the muffin pans might work well too

IMPORTANT: If you use any of these techniques, if your flame starts to go out, *DO NOT ADD MORE FLUID WHILE THERE IS STILL ANY FLAME* still burning. Put the flames out with the metal lid like he showed, THEN you can safely add more fuel.

I’ve set a few of the tea lights in my large cast iron frying pan, placed it on the cold burner and used a wired cookie/cake rack over the top. It worked great to boil water, heat up cans of soup, etc.

Another idea, buy a stainless steel fondue pot at a thrift store, heat with sterno or tea lights. I used this during last hurricane power outage in Florida. Worked great!

There is nothing like living off the grid for several years that will teach you most of these wisdoms. And more.  I feel privileged that I got to do this for five years.

I pray God will protect us all from this horrific winter storm.❤❤❤

Really appreciate this video.  If you put granite rocks or maybe sand in a pan over the flames, the rocks/sand will absorb some of the heat and let it off slowly to help warm the area.

Outside solar lights work great,  you put them outside during the day and bring them in when the light comes on.

Canning rings would work to set the pans on

Ways our family with children have survived weeklong snowstorm power outages in the Northeast was to pick the smallest room for all to stay in together and-
1) Wear snowpants over both jeans and fleece leg leggings, insulated boots with real wool socks layered over polyester socks,  sherpa hooded fleece sweaters (even warmer than fleece) plus other fleece layers under hooded coats, ear muffs, electric battery operated socks and gloves and battery operated handwarmers (not just rechargeable ones) plus chemical hand warmers if needed for core heat.
2) Important-cover all windows and doors with fleece car blankets (fleece is made from plastic) or any blankets plus sheets you have, sealing edges with painters tape as windows are biggest heat loss. And insulate electric sockets/light switches with those thin craftlike foam sheets, tape over key holes. Feel for cold leaks with damp backside of hand
3) By sleeping bags rated below 10 degrees or more rated, blankets on top. Vented Tent if needed
4) Have many empty water/milk galloons filled with water to flush toilets/wash plus tub is filled (watch small children don't go near tub).The 2 1/2 gallon spigot water bottles really help with washing hands, just cut a small flap in the top to refill
5) Fill yogurt/Chinese food lidded containers with snow to put in fridge and freezer to keep food cold and replace when melting
6) Heated lots of canned soup/instant oatmeal/made scrambled eggs/mac n cheese etc in mini aluminum loaf pans moving back and forth just holding edges, stopping to stir occasionally over food warmer Sterno gel cans or warmer candles set down in kitchen sink or using those metal pieces used to put together homemade saw horses with the Sterno in the middle and pan on top in kitchen sink with window cracked open. Used metal tongs to place lid back on Sterno. Canned soups are precooked so don't even need cooking and can be eaten cold so just warming is plenty. Can use the flat end type hot dog tongs to hold the ends of the loaf pans. You can just stick a metal fork through a slice of bread in two spots and move back and forth over the flame to toast it too.
7) Used out door driveway solar lights inside at night to conserve on batteries, sticking them back outside in the snow during the day
8) Left car outside of garage which had full tank of gas and cell phone/ usb plus electric plug charger should we have needed to recharge rechargeable batteries/phones etc... or warm up
9) We are in a rural area and just got a cell phone tower a few years ago so we kept our landlines before that for emergency. But read that CB radios still work in power outages too for calling in an emergency if cell tower loses power.

For more effective cooking and heating ( preserving thermal mass) always use a lid.  No comparison with a lid off.

thank goodness I replaced all my non stick with stainless steel and cast iron years ago, so no worries with that. We do not use actual candles at our house, but I keep about 100 tea lites on hand for emergencies. These are great Ideas!! Thanks so much for sharing them!

The power went out for 8 hours last week. I got to use my Aliexpress single burner camp stove to boil water and make coffee! It was even faster than the electric kettle!

I've used my cookie cooling rack; works perfect.

Living in Canada this will prove to be extremely valuable during the winter.
Thanks for the video ❤