How To Keep House Warm Without Electricity: 15 Easy Tips

Two unvented propane heaters
10 or more small tall propane tanks full of propane
at least two carbon monoxide detectors

Heat one small room of your house to live in while the grid is down if when it goes down.

Drain water from pipes and water heater and softener in house before letting it go into deep freeze mode while you stay in heated room.

Have stored water and food and candles.

Simple.

Some places in the US are BANNING wood-burning stoves.

What does that tell you?

The real issue is whether your wood stove installation voids your home insurance.
You better make sure you know what you're doing.

Our mortgage company won’t let us put in a wood stove. So we bought a hot tent. If worse comes to worst, we’ll put it up in the backyard.

Go to Walmart and purchanse a quilt big enough to cover you and any two obese women wiling to snuggle til spring.

It will be so d hot you will have to keep ur windows open til next May

And if the power goes out you can render a little blubber for ur lantern.

Wow that was pretty.. unhelpful. Seal up your house real good and now light a fire. Dress warm . Anything else captain obvious? And getting in a car? You mean the big largely uninsulated metal box with air flowing on all sides?

1) decide what space you are going to heat and hang sheets if needed to block off that space. ( yes a tent WILL work, and may be a good idea for sleeping.. but most tents people have won't allow you to stand up. If you have one - fine., but a sheet is surprisingly good at blocking air flow and therefore heat lost.

2) a traditional indoor wood stove is ideal, but failing that a small rocket cooking stove ( runs on twigs) would be better than candles. Or larger rocket stoves are easy to create with barrels or trashcans. Just Make sure you have a way to exhaust the smoke. Candles aren't going to cut it

3) People. People produce heat. The more people you have in a space, the warmer it will get. If you really can't stay warm get a bunch of people together. - Sure you can go to the Government approved "warming spaces" - Just hope no one poisons your food or water or rapes you ...

4) Get Solar electricity Yes it can be expensive. But an inverter all by itself will put off heat all day why it is operating ( I use my inverter exhaust to heat a greenhouse in the winter - and then shut it out another way in the summer) Plus you can generate actual electricity that you can use for pumping water and other tasks - or run your furnace.. The solar heaters they are talking about can be made with a couple sheets of plexiglass, a bunch of aluminum cans and some black paint. You just need a channel through the wall at the top and bottom that allows air to enter, get heated up by the sun and the hot cans and re-enter the home near the top. I passively heat my shop this way.

Some places in the US are BANNING wood-burning stoves.

What does that tell you?

A HAT!!!
People forget hats. We lose an enormous amount of heat through the head so a hat is huge help.