The essentials for living your best life.
The essentials for living your best life.
Prepare your home before heavy snow and winter outages strike. From preventing frozen pipes and ice dams to protecting trees, managing water damage, and building an emergency kit, these practical steps can help keep your family safe and your home protected all season long.
Essential Concepts: Heat people first, then one small room; use only vented, correctly installed heat indoors; keep generators outside and at least 20 feet from openings; unplug space heaters when sleeping or away; food in a closed refrigerator is usually safe for about 4 hours, and a full freezer for about 48 hours.
A winter outage is not just a comfort problem. It raises the risk of carbon monoxide, fire, burns, and food spoilage, so the safest response is to conserve heat, use only properly vented equipment, and make early decisions about whether to stay or relocate.
