Let's not pretend that we are living like the Ingalls from the Little House on the Prairie Series. Our preparations for winters storms are a little different.
Let me share some survival tips for the modern family. Here are some things to stockpile that will help you survive.
1. Video Games! This will keep the kids (and maybe dad) occupied for days.
2. Movies! Eventually, the kids will get blisters from the video game joysticks or mom will shut down the video games. Have movies on hand and have a couple of Lifetime specials ready for mom.
3. Hot chocolate! This is good survival food and good for morale. It also will make mom happy and keeping her from getting cabin fever is the key to your survival.
4. Batteries! You must have batteries for your radios, phones, and computers because the power company will hose you!
5. Radios, phones, and computers. You need some way to be sure you are not the only family in your state snowed in.
6. Snuggies! If the power and heat do go out, you need to have one snuggie per family member, even if you are the only family in your state snowed in.
7. Snow shovel. You need a snow shovel so you can tunnel out in case you run out of anything on this list.
8. Generator. You don't need to buy or own a generator, you just need to know which neighbor owns one so you can crash with them when the powers out - tell them you will bring your video games, hot chocolate, and snuggies with you.
9. Your Bible! You may need to remind yourself that God is not going to destroy the world with a snow storm. I had to double check this during Snowmageddon of 2010.
10. Duck-tape! For anything I failed to consider, duck-tape should fix it.
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