How to Cope and Prepare for a Winter Ice Storm

Winter is the time of year that we have to worry about getting an ice storm. Sometimes an ice storm can hit and make even the slightest movement outside impossible, even if you live right next door to a grocery store you may not be able to get to it with ice in the path. If the ice storm gets bad enough the electricity can go out and that could cause all kinds of problems since we are so dependent on our electricity for all kinds of things. Our water is pumped to our faucet with electricity and when we don't have electricity we can't get the water to our faucets. Our furnaces depend on electricity to bring us heat into our houses and we can lose the small things like our lights and our ability to cook all depends on electricity. If we have a power outage our lives can change dramatically since we depend so much on electricity.

If we think ahead we can avoid some discomfort in the likelihood that we have an ice storm that causes a power outage. If the weather person is predicting the slightest chance for a ice storm it is a good idea to take some precautions like . Fill up some containers with water. All kinds of containers can be used like a coffee pot or tea pot. If the electricity goes out it can be out for a long time, possibly days and you don't want to go without water for that long. You can even fill your bathtub and use that water to wash with. Don't forget to have water set aside for your pets too; they will need water if the electricity goes out as well.