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Jordan700
Joined: 29 May 2006
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Location: Petaluma, California
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Just wondering how everyone keeps their animals warm when the power goes out for long periods of time.
Since I live on a dairy we have a generator to run the milking barn, that also powers the house. So thats how I deal with an outage.
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Cryptly
Joined: 25 Jun 2006
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Location: NY
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Last time that happened, I ended up carting the critters to my mom's house, using heat packs to keep them nice and warm during the trip (it was winter then). That time, it was just a couple leopard geckos and my larger more temp sensitive tarantulas. I'd probably do the same thing again. . .but I'm not sure what she'd think about the extra geckos plus 3 snakes. 
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lindsey_marshall00
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
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humm... cold weather in south GA? I dont think it is possible.. wearing shorts and a tee shirt on christmas morning... but if it did happen my mom has a generator at her house- 10 minutes away. and she loves my snakies.
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Cryptly
Joined: 25 Jun 2006
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Location: NY
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Shorts and a Tee on Christmas morning!
I'm jealous. . .my Christmas surprise last year was a couple feet of snow to shovel. . . 
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deborahbroadus
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Joined: 16 Jul 2006
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Cryptly wrote: | Shorts and a Tee on Christmas morning!
I'm jealous. . .my Christmas surprise last year was a couple feet of snow to shovel. . . |
Mine too (minus the shoveling)! I wish it was temperate year round in MD. It used to be, but with the global warming...we have been having hot and cold weather, not really anything temperate. I need to purchase a generator myself!  Because when the winter comes, for sure I will experience outages!!
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Moshi
Joined: 23 Jul 2006
Posts: 303
Location: Pinellas Park Fl
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Our power went out a few times this year in the rain (there's something wronge with the thing on the pole) It wasn't cold and the power came back in a few minutes. We've never had the power go out in the winter so...
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deborahbroadus
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Joined: 16 Jul 2006
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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| Moshi wrote: | | Our power went out a few times this year in the rain (there's something wronge with the thing on the pole) It wasn't cold and the power came back in a few minutes. We've never had the power go out in the winter so... |
Then you have been extremely lucky so far. My experience is it's best to have a thing and not need it than need it and not have it. (((searching for a generator now)))
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slitheringin
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
Posts: 378
Location: Mountain Home Arkansas
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I live in the bottom end of the Tornado Belt. My worries aren't lack of power, but a twister coming thru. I live in an apartment and the only place to get out of harms way is a 3'x7' under-stair well.
We usually get a 5 min. warning. I have to figure out how to get 3 cats, 2 bearded dragons, 1 uromastyx and 4 snakes + me underneath in 5 minutes. 
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lindsey_marshall00
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
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Hope most of your animals come when called.. I don't really have to worry about much of anything. Ocasional hurricane everynow and again. A tornado once in a blue moon-more if spun off of a hurricane. No snow here, not much of anything except really really DRY and Very HOT--113 in the shade the other day.
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slitheringin
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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Location: Mountain Home Arkansas
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Lindsey, where do you live?
Debbie
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lindsey_marshall00
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very south GA -- swamp land.
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slitheringin
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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Location: Mountain Home Arkansas
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Wow. I picture humid; yucky, sticky, yucky humid. Definitely not dry. I was trying to figure in your last post, Dry and hurricane? Now where could that be????
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lindsey_marshall00
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we have our hurricane season from June till oct. it has rained 2 times this month and we only got 3 inches total. That is dry even for the swamp. some days it is a very heavy heat and others it is a dry heat.
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mleaster
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 449
Location: Oklahoma City,Ok 73132
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This gets me thinking now.  What do you do as far as seasons? I live in Oklahoma, so we do have fall weather and then in November/December it will start t turn cold. The house he lives in will be warm. Is there like a different feeding schedule winter verses summer. I suppose the UTH will still need to be on, but turned down?
Sorry if these are dumb questions. Just havent thought about it or read much on the subject.
Thanks
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Jordan700
Joined: 29 May 2006
Posts: 1048
Location: Petaluma, California
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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Unless you are planning on breeding keep him at his normal temps. Changing the tepms around can lead to stress, which in turn leads to a snake that won't eat. 
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