30 Appalachian Winter Survival Tricks For Seniors Living Alone

🔗 Don't wait till the powers already out. Get yours before its gone: https://www.OpalRowe.com/home Opal Rowe is eighty and lives alone in the Kentucky mountains, and she has seen more winters through without the power company than she can count. In this one she counts down 30 old mountain tricks for seniors living alone, the winter survival tips her mama and Pawpaw Rowe lived by, from a sock full of rice along the bottom of the door to bubble wrap and plain water on the coldest window. Most cost next to nothing, and every one is a way to stay warm without electricity or get yourself safely through a long power outage on your own. And the whole time, a plain quart jar sits in a skillet of sand on her kitchen table, a stub of pipe standing up out of its lid, the one her neighbor asks about every time she comes by. Near the end, Opal finally tells what Pawpaw put in it. In this one, Opal covers: • Why you shut the house down to one warm room, and the quilt in the doorway that keeps it warm • Bubble wrap and plain water on the window glass, and why it holds the heat a thin pane can't • The little camp stove Pawpaw ran on the porch through the 2009 ice storm, and why it never comes inside • Power outage tips for seniors: the three-day box, the phone numbers on paper, and the neighbor who calls every morning • The jar in the skillet of sand on Opal's kitchen table, and what Pawpaw put in it Tell Opal in the comments where you're watching from, and who taught you to get through a hard winter. What did your people do when the power went out? Opal reads every last one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Jar in Opal's Skillet of Sand 1:07 Shut the House Down to One Warm Room 1:57 A Rice Sock Along the Bottom of the Door 2:45 Bubble Wrap and Water on Your Window 3:35 Tinfoil Behind Your Heater 4:26 A Quilt on the Cold Glass at Night 5:18 Wool Socks to Bed 6:12 A Battery Weather Radio 7:01 Open the Cabinet Doors Under Your Sinks 7:55 Let One Faucet Drip 8:42 A Battery Pack for Your Phone 9:29 A Quilt Over the Inside Doorway 10:28 Bank Your Fire Before Bed 11:57 A Hot Stone at the Foot of the Bed 13:18 The Persimmon Seed 15:04 The Nip of Whiskey for the Cold 16:42 Old Newspaper Against the Cold 18:15 A Jar of Hot Water in Your Bed 19:38 A Pinch of Red Pepper in Your Socks 20:59 A Camp Stove and the Porch to Run It On 22:50 Let the Earth Keep Your Food Cold 24:41 Ashes on Your Icy Steps 26:18 Know Where Your Water Shuts Off 28:18 A Warm Sleeping Bag in Your Closet 29:50 Get Up Off the Cold Floor 31:19 Phone Numbers Written Down on Paper 32:56 A Battery Alarm for the Poison You Can't Smell 34:47 The Three-Day Box 36:44 Somebody Who Expects to Hear From You 38:29 What's in Pawpaw's Jar 40:42 The Morning Smoke