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Weather Watchers

synni

(738 posts)

1. Another tip for those of us with gas water heaters

Reply to 3825-87867 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2026, 06:09 PM

Monday

What I did during our last outage was take hot showers whenever I started to feel too cold. Obviously, you need to cover your hair with something plastic, because it's impossible to dry it quickly without electricity.

When you throw your clothes on after a hot shower, then burrow down under some blankets...heaven!

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Another tip for those of us with gas water heaters synni Monday #1

During the Massachusetts ice storm of 2008 Coldwater Monday #2

a heavy weighted blanket is very nice to have Skittles Monday #3

You can also heat bricks in the oven. intheflow Tuesday #4