How to Survive the Next Texas Freeze

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[@Yokozai]

Hey I won:)

[@metern]

At home we have a propane heater (about 1m high) that can warm up a 30m² room to 21°C 😉 No electricity needed

[@matwashington2784]

Wine Tumbler!

[@alee_enn]

Q: How many modern rogues does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 2. One to change the lightbulb, and one to take Jason to hospital for injurying himself trying to change a lightbulb using the sharpest object possible.

[@timgchannel3328]

To repeat something that was said in the episode: the heat of the candles with the pots is exactly the same as the heat of the candles without the pots. What happens is that the pots convert the heat from circulating heat to radiating heat, which makes it easier to warm yourself up by it.

[@TheScarvig]

for the record: this is only useful if you are in contact with the pot. it brings no benefit whatsoever at "heating a room" over the candles alone. but because you can touch the warmed up pot you can directly transfer heat into your body bypassing it being dispersed into the air where it has way more chances to end up somewhere that isnt your body (aka the walls or windows)

[@jasontimmur]

@@TheScarvig couldn't you just hold your hands above the candles far enough to warm them but not burn? Pot is still unnecessary

[@nekonicodemus6107]

I actually used this last winter, I think it was. It only works in a smaller space. Even then it's iffy at best.

[@andylines8040]

@@jasontimmur yes but that would be less efficient and you would loose more heat

[@Mrjcowman]

@@TheScarvig well, it could make a slight difference on effective room heating. The column of heated air from a bare candle rises straight to the ceiling fairly quickly, meaning the diffusion of heat must go from the ceiling all the way back to the bottom of the room before it can be felt. Meanwhile, the pot traps the heat closer to the ground, giving it a chance to conduct to a wider volume of air close to people before diffusing to the ceiling. In the end, the total heat in the room is no different between the two scenarios, but with the pot, the heat lingers where it can be felt far longer than without the pot

[@Qsie]

Never in my LIFE did I imagine I'd hear a TF2 reference, let alone a TF2 *MEME* reference, in a Modern Rogue video. Legend tested, day brightened lmao

[@ModernRogue]

As two people who played TF1 back when it was a Half-Life 1 mod, we are both deeply moved AND deeply offended by your amazement.

[@GameCyborgCh]

wait there was a TF2 reference? where?

[@chadfalkin6850]

@@GameCyborgCh when they say the words "looking like the spy from tf2"

[@strongestgamer2501]

I could tell you're californian

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

I live in Michigan and a tip my dad has always told me is the heat of a single candle is enough to keep a small room or a car above freezing, I've tested it, and he's right. When we lived in Alabama we had a laundry room that wasn't heated, and he would use an incandescent light bulb in there instead of the LEDs we had everywhere else simply to keep the little 20sqft room above freezing in the winter, which also worked pretty well. Our power doesn't often go out in the winter, but in case it does my parents always taught my siblings and I how to stay warm enough to survive.

[@Doodlebob563]

MI resident here as well! Totally correct on this. However, the issue with the Texas freeze is the homes out there often don't have any insulation at all so heating up a room slowly just doesn't really work.

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

@@Doodlebob563 Absolutely, when we lived in Alabama our laundry room had no insulation either, just brick walls, our house had minimal insulation which kinda sucked cuz our air never worked so it was just extremely hot in the summer

[@jasontimmur]

that's gonna depend entirely on how cold it is outside. I've been in -40 F Iowa winters and a single candle is not going to keep a car above freezing.

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

@@jasontimmur I mean it'll still be way better than not having a candle, and could be the difference between freezing to death and not

[@HarshYadav-cj3yu]

Buy camping lpg gas heaters

[@cuanbellagarda8888]

You guys should do it again and try to get the candle wax to auto ignite, would be nice to know how bad you have to neglect this. And I imagine it would be reasonably spectacular.

[@articchill1384]

Let's make this happen!

[@willmfrank]

@@articchill1384 We haven't seen the outtakes; how do we know it hasn't already happened? 😉🤨

[@Nobodyfromnowhere42]

i like playing with fire i did ignite one of those candles thingys, like it was all on fire about 30cm flame, i tried to pick it up and throw it in the toilet , it exploded on my hand , 20 years later i still have a mark. Couldnt move my finger for 2 weeks .All you have to do is put 3 of those in a triangle touching each other and another one on top of them in the middle

[@spiiket.3474]

​@@Nobodyfromnowhere42 whoever might want to do this, make absolutely sure you're in a safe setting, and that you have a metal pan to put over the fire to put it out so you don't burn your house down 😅

[@Mellcula]

I really appreciate the fact that they always show what the metric measurments are when they are talking about something

[@butter6442]

I know everyone else uses metric but as a American I have been seeing it more and more

[@armaslohemadu]

These videos are always so enjoyable. It has the charm of uhh "legend testing" and other similar kind of shows that brings the nostalgiaz while still being fresh and enjoyable and not copying, just really nailing the same qualities

[@Clyptonix]

Love the sarcasm.

[@clippedwings225]

Candles will heat a room just as much as they will under a pot, the usefulness of this is that the pot gets hot, and radiates infrared heat which you can better sit near, warm your hands near, and so on. (thank you Technology Connections)

[@ModernRogue]

Yeah: it's technically the same, but like placing one hand in freezing water, another in boiling water and confidently announcing that, on average, you're experiencing a very comfortable dip in a spa. Technically accurate, but not comforting. Yes. The energy is the same. And if you're happy with your final outcome being that the top of your 30-foot tall soundstage is now a fragment of a degree warmer, then sure: it's the same. Me? I'll be hugging my warm, radiating pot instead. -Brian

[@Scotty-vs4lf]

@@ModernRogue hey Brian, i think ClippedWings22 was saying the same thing since they said the pot is useful since it radiates infared heat which you can warm your hands on

[@Vote4Drizzt]

Making the room warmer is only useful insofar as it makes *you* warmer. The pot gives you radiant heat instead of a bunch of convection you cant easily capture in your body

[@clippedwings225]

@@ModernRogue I'm not trying to say it is bad! Just that it depends on what your goal is.

[@dominicesquivel3901]

@@ModernRogue so question. Do people just not have fire places in Texas on average?

[@stalelemonproduction]

It's looking like we're gonna get another freeze like that soon, so you guys timed this video super well. One thing to remember (i haven't finished the video yet so I don't know if you talk about it), put blankets or something over windows and the bottom of doorways as well, if you have them to spare. It keeps a bit extra heat in the room

[@jamesroach709]

What they are making is small version of old clay oven. Used to to be used for cooking and making bricks/tiles.

[@raibeart1955]

That could end up dangerous if you do not let air flow. You will eventually burn up all the oxygen in the room. Result - Death.

[@a-cell4564]

Other solution is bath towels, saving the blankets for yourselves. Other note, yeah, try to leave a little airflow, you only have so much oxygen.

[@kutsen39]

It may be late now, but it's always worth a mention: If you can, get some emergency blankets. They're made of a certain plastic which reflects infrared radiation and body heat incredibly well. Even though I live somewhere that has winterproofed infrastructure, I've thought about getting a roll of duct tape and making a makeshift tent out of mylar and duct tape. Might have to cut a hole in the top and towards the bottom for oxygen flow, but these candles might go really well with that I think.

[@raibeart1955]

@@DingDingTheKZbinBuddy Hi, That’s exactly what i was getting at. Whatever way if you cover your windows whilst running heating the end result is the same. However I maintain that if you don’t have oxygen the heater would not work as it needs the oxygen to perform. Crack open a window whatever the weather. All the best to you and yours.

[@D-S-9]

This is basically the candle version of all the times in Star Trek that they'd phaser a rock to stay warm.

[@ModernRogue]

hah! Accurate!

[@JakeJackPot_]

From a Canadian and probably the rest of the world, thank you for the solid job of giving C every time you give a temperature.

[@GameCyborgCh]

as a German can confirm. I'm glad they provide the correct measurement units

[@krismueller]

We did do this last year. I'm glad to see this getting around.

[@gingiegirl6963]

I'm from a cold area and growing up the adults always told us that if we were lost in the snow or without heat or shelter in a storm that we should dig a cave into the snow to keep ourselves warm.

[@infamousgamer767]

A small moment to appreciate the real time Fahrenheit to Celsius translations. I'd normally hate a video like this from someone else because I'd be opening up tabs constantly to check the conversions

[@WoahItsWoozy]

I’ve said this to friends after and during the freeze: Electric fire places can still be started with the power out, try and look for a battery compartment where the control for the flame is on the fire place. If you put some batteries in there you can have a fire going and cozy up nicely! (Of course make sure the exhaust for the fireplace is open so you don’t have the exhaust slowly build up in your house).

[@leppeppel]

As a native Pennsylvanian, it's cute watching Brian react to "a lot" of snow. Not having power or water sucks for sure, but the snow was not the issue there, just the catalyst.

[@kutsen39]

As a Midwesterner, it absolutely boils my blood that the Texan government saw a bad freeze that killed at least 200 people and said "Bah, it'll never happen again, we'll be fine!" Climate change is very real, and they were absolute buffoons to even entertain the notion that this won't become the new norm. Here's a half-joke: a group of baboons is called a Congress. That's very insulting, those baboons do plenty of good work. (Joke about Congress, a group of baboons is actually called that though)

[@CaitiffFTW]

I am also from Pennsylvania. One of my coworkers is recently moved here from Texas. When she heard that we were expecting to get snow up here, about 3 weeks ago, she asked how much snow she could expect. My immediate reply: "Barely enough to shut down Texas, or enough to shut down God. There is almost no middle ground." I got no objections, to that assessment.

[@JS-qi1ou]

@@kutsen39 as a former Texan, honestly you can’t fix stupid. We were aware that a hard freeze was coming, yet people for some reason didn’t have more than 2 days worth of food at their house. They didn’t think to let their faucets drip to prevent pipes bursting. They can’t drive worth a damn on dry roads but yet attempt to get down the highway on their 2WD beater truck. Then you had the idiots that tried heating their home with charcoal and other carbon monoxide producing fuels. The deaths were more independent stupidity, than a horrible government plan. I live in Montana now and my power has gone out multiple times days at a time during the winter. You just have to have common sense, and not be a total idiot.

[@rai_l]

@@JS-qi1ou you sound like an asshole blaming these victims of their government's negligence of duty. sure you might know better now, but if you were given assurances that it would all be okay, would you always 100% have prepared for everything? would you have had the money in hand to buy all of the extra supplies you might need? would you have been able to afford to take the time off work to prepare? and most importantly, would the _average_ person been able to? remember that an astounding number of your coinhabitants live literally paycheck to paycheck and/or wouldn't be able to afford a 400 dollar emergency

[@kutsen39]

The key here that pisses me off is _the government's negligence of duty_. The Texan government chose to do nothing. Sure, that's excusable, maybe they didn't believe they would actually get a winter. But to not at least attempt to prepare for it in the coming thaw months for the next year?? That is something I can _not_ excuse. Granted, yes, people should not have been burning fuels and using up their oxygen faster than necessary. However, they should not have had to rely on that. And preparing for the winter months and all issues associated with a hard freeze, that falls on the government, and they failed miserably.

[@tylerelfling8430]

I was teaching a few friends how to make and use this a month or so back now as all power, water and everything to their entire town was taken out so they had nothing so now they know what to to in advance for if that happened again and they're thankful for me helping them in that time

[@jakeferreira1211]

This is nice to watch while for waiting for this massive blizzard that's supposed to come through Massachusetts tonight and tomorrow. It's supposed to be the biggest one in years.

[@locke2517]

Persistent cold weather is a rough time when suddenly you have no power. It was bad. I'm glad I had natural gas and never lost water, we had the only hot showers for miles around, my family and ex wife's family all came over to warm up.

[@blackbelt352-dd]

A good way to avoid using combustion indoors is to set up a fire outside with rocks around it and use the hot rocks in place of the candles. No need to worry about a paraffin ignition. just keep an eye on the fire outside.

[@zeekutartheimmortal]

I love their talk of the texas freeze last year. Just as New England is about to be hit by 2 feet of snow tomorrow. It really must have sucked though in texas where there is no real utility safety with regards to low temps. at least up here in New England we have some protocols in place. Here's hoping for a safe winter no matter where you are!

[@animula6908]

God bless y’all! Stay safe and warm and enjoy the solemn time blanketed under beautiful snow!

[@jakeferreira1211]

Yeah this looks like a rough one. I'm right in the middle of it. Up to 3 feet and 65 mph winds

[@vincentmartino9122]

From the north east as well and we have a great system with plows and salt trucks ready to go. Our pipes both water and gas are equipped to deal with low temperatures and snow. Texas needs an update.

[@jakeferreira1211]

@@vincentmartino9122 Agreed, but is it really worth it for Texas to do too much for a storm that might come once in a decade or so? They should probably invest in some salt trucks or some plows or something, but it probably isn't worth much more than that, at least from a economic perspective.

[@anythinggoes1983]

I'm glad for my romanian greatcoat and my finnish wool trousers

[@samott5043]

Always a good day when modern rouge posts

[@bloodlove93]

late but one word...crisco. never used it but heard thousands of stories, best shtf heat source

[@zacharycolton267]

Hey rogues, viewer from the backwoods of western PA here.. we lose electricity on our farm regularly due to wind, snow, rain, you name it, sometimes for up to 2 weeks. Best advice I could give for these situations is the best generator you can afford, buy it as soon as possible(not during the storm, or even in winter) but electric heating blankets are a blessing. It is the most efficient way to heat your self. Always remember that the more you plug into a generator the faster it’ll drink fuel.

[@ianhopkins8948]

The pot method is how I keep things nicer up here in Pennsylvania. Cause propane is expensive.

[@Nedyarg1100]

Where I live in Canada there's snow on the ground for 7-8 months and quite often gets to -40C. It's always a bit surprising just how little it takes to completely shutdown towns power/water elsewhere.

[@LostButBroken]

Well Texas pretty much fucked itself by refusing to connect their electrical grid to other states and doesn't maintain it...

[@michaelvalentin9136]

this video released the day after I moved to Texas. every texan I've ever met has warned me about winter, I am prepared to listen lol

[@elenas3571]

I live in Houston and we were hit pretty hard last year. Hopefully we don’t get winter freeze part 2 but if we do at least I’ll be prepared!

[@amuseliese]

I think I can speak for many of us Texas folks to say we sincerely hope the "hundred year blizzard" or whatever that was, really was only once in a hundred years. We're better prepared now if it does happen again, but we don't want it to!!! Houston preps fine for hurricanes but blizzards... no thank you please.

[@cycoholic]

They used to do a similar thing behind the Iron Curtain back in the day. They would be rationed a single lightbulb and were told they could use it for lighting or heating. That was all they would get. So they would do the same trick, just swapping out the candles with the lightbulb.

[@upinarms79]

Ah, brings backs the good ol' days from my early 20s... working two jobs while trying to also go to college, no health insurance, huddling near a 100 watt lamp without a shade for heat, wrapped in couch throws and eating cold Van Camp chili and Vienna sausages straight from the can on my thrift store salvage couch. Fun times. At least there was also beer.

[@saudade7842]

Also, generators don't always work, especially in the cold. Where I live there was a winter storm not that long ago and our generator wouldn't start (worked fine before and after the storm) and we didn't have power for a little over a day (others were not so lucky). Luckily, out house had a functional wood stove so we could stay warm and eat hot food, and we had always made sure we had warm clothes just in case. During the cold snap, Texas didn't get that cold, but the infrastructure and many people weren't prepared. Prepared people can survive temperatures well below -50 Fahrenheit, and the unprepared have even died above 50 Fahrenheit.

[@strongestgamer2501]

Sounds more unfortunate, given the pfp

[@cranfill]

Hey it's me! I love me in these episodes! 🤣

[@CaptainAwsome]

Tip from an Ohioan, let your taps drip to help prevent your pipes from cracking from ice

[@dominicesquivel3901]

Is that just not common knowledge?

[@choahjinhuay]

@@dominicesquivel3901 it is not apparently.

[@ModernRogue]

Most of us had our water shut off at the central stations, specifically because we were all letting stuff drip.

[@dominicesquivel3901]

@@ModernRogue well that was messed up of ghem

[@brandysanders3886]

@@ModernRogue sounds like a Texas problem

[@Artifying]

It’s supposed to get below freezing in Florida tonight and I am very thankful to have power, a warm house, and plenty of blankets.

[@EMMD844]

I lived small apartment in Chicago during the vortex in 2019, barely 150sq ft. It was a small office turned into an apartment at 840 a month. To the point though, this method saved me several nights because the apartment was not properly fitted for winter weather. Large back door with a crack under that let the wind in, glass front door, huge windows. I sat two of these on my kitchen sink/bedroom counter and it kept me warm enough to sleep.

[@harken9978]

you've always been one of my favourite youtube channel. the tf2 reference has gained you first spot (with insurance)

[@Cmcmillen77]

Take it to the next level now. Larger pot. More fire!

[@vict4451]

Perfect timing for the video considering what is supposed to happen later this week

[@TheNukedNacho]

Me, watching this having lived in a Tropical Country that never gets any snow ever for my entire life: This will surely come in handy.

[@The-D33J]

I read about this a few years back but it explained you should use a smaller pot with a larger pot over it, the gap between the two pots creating a convection effect. IIRC the inner pot should have the 'chimney' hole and the outer one should be solid. Maybe worth a short follow up video to test the theory?

[@dakurisu3431]

This candle trick is also a well known survival tip. Lost in the frozen tundra? Drape a thin blanket or sleepingbag over yourself and light 1 of those candles and place it on the ground between your legs being careful not to snuff it or set yourself on fire, it will warm you up very quick.

[@willthewise420]

Look who it is hey MR crew thanks for the survival tips xD

[@willthewise420]

@Mr.Squidward wth is this xD thanks for the relaxing video

[@lordfarquaadgaming9316]

I’m glad we bought a whole house generator a few months before so we had power

[@caeloMius]

this plus those food tray warmer is probably a great combo.

[@stapuft]

a soda can, a binder clip, a roll of paper towels, and oil, (any you have, spoiled cooking oil works well) also, would make for a good heat source for this. roll a single paper towel up and use the binder clip on one end to hold it upright, place it in the soda can (that you cut the top off of) fill the can with oil, and let it soak for about a half hour (or more) before lighting.

[@ChrisBryer]

You guys should do a whole set of vids about preparing for such situations.

[@AskAScreenwriter]

Boysenberry? Oh noes, you've been BOYSENED!

[@johnbarron4843]

Hahah The Lone Ice cube.

[@Cobzah]

thanks modern rogue, very epic

[@jacobwoolf2010]

That was a dark. Cold couple of weeks

[@7DdlySns713]

My family when we lived in the mountains we used this (the hanging ones) to warm up bed rooms when we didn't have power or it wasn't enough to use heaters. We had a plethora of candles

[@HarshYadav-cj3yu]

In Delhi, india we have these 5L LPG cylinders on top of which a pipe is mounted and a metal mesh bulb is attached and a large metal bowl to focus the heat in one direction. The best part is it can be made by DIY it's inspired by parabolic camping gas heaters. It's selling like hotcakes.

[@HarshYadav-cj3yu]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKvHYYOKlr9-m5Y Diy build

[@baileyloudon8110]

How was I just thinking about this exact random thing today and then MR makes a video on it

[@captainpanda5533]

You guys are alllllmost to the point where your videos are half content, half advertisement.

[@MoonflowerWitch]

That is literally how I stayed warm in the last Texas freeze.

[@TheRealSnhyper]

Old bushie trick uses a similar technique but holding a heshen blanket over yourself with the candle between your legs

[@ConnorSinclairCavin]

So another reason why the terracotta pots are so good for this is that terracotta is a super efficient material to transform infrared light (which waxes based candles put off a lot of even for fire) into pure heat energy

[@warlorddyne8641]

There's a similar thing we do in the Arctic the only difference is we use a coffee tin and the candles go inside the coffee tin

[@EnergyCourtier]

I know you can combine a rocket stove with some mass and mediocre insulation, it will radiate heat for days, enough to heat a 3 bedroom home. These systems use a very small amount of wood if built correctly.

[@justin_womack]

If you don’t want to just keep a bunch of bricks and an empty pot around, last year during the freeze I used several overturned coffee mugs and the crock from a 6qt crockpot. Both made for high temperatures, the only thing I had to do was clean the soot out of the crock when I was done. Also used a single coke can alcohol stove because we were able to get alcohol, but not candles.

[@gavinlee6196]

Something similar I was taught was getting a tarp or some kind of cover and candle, light the candle right in between ur legs as u sit down and put the tarp over u and the candle. This is more for a in the wild situation and ideally u r supposed to dig a hole so the candle isn't too close to u. Also to not seal the cover completely

[@PeachyPoint]

Snow again for Texas in a few days, time to hit the garden section then bath and body works

[@beefymcskillet5601]

I’ve been taught this but to use a coffee tin with holes in it as the base. The pot doesn’t radiate he that well but it does get warm.

[@danielroder830]

Even a single tealight can go out of control. I had one where all the wax was burning because the air was'nt circulating enough, they are more dangerous than you might think.

[@nielsegense]

2-3 candles in a pot that size. Lip of the pot lower than the flame. You loose a LOT of heat out of that big opening. Three bricks in a triangle, foil on the bottom, ignite, pot, done.

[@sentane8031]

"hey man it's getting pretty chilly in here" "hold on let me check on my bucket of heat" "what?" * intense screams of pain as the dude flips the pot * "that's much better"

[@davidpritchett855]

Another really easy way to do this is you can take a copper pipe, make a loop and terminate both ends in a metal mason jar lid and drill a small hole in the pipe at the bottom of the loop. Screw it on a mason jar full of 90% isopropyl alcohol or methylated Spirits or ever clear (Any ethyl or methyl alcohol above 90% or so works) and then light it and it will put out a ton of heat. A pot of water with a lid can work the same way and the water has a much higher heat capacity than a terra Cotta pot and the water can be consumed to very quickly raise your internal body heat in case of hypothermia.

[@Kazutoification]

Domal arigato, Mr. Roboto.

[@LeonardChurch33]

I've seen variations on this where people run a large bolt down through the center and hang a number of successively smaller pots from the bolt. I wonder if that improves the performance in terms of creating more surface area to absorb heat or is it trying to create a larger thermal mass to allow the heat to dissipate more slowly into the room.

[@justynh1321]

I've heard these called (in canada whare I'm from) A survival pot

[@DimepieceCustomWorks]

You should do another video about making large, long term candles out of Vegetable shortening( vegetable shortening has a higher combustion point and is therefore safer than perafin candles) and a stick candle, in a large glass, or metal container. Also 3lbs of vegetable shortening made into a candle can burn 8 hours a day, for 36 days. Very efficient and much cheaper in the long term.

[@timeverhartofficial]

a few old oil lamps will do same thing.

[@ModernRogue]

ah yes. Those staple oil lamps that every Texan has laying around... :-D

[@Jake2O9]

How about keeping your water pipes warm😂😂??? That would be very helpful

[@adc968]

You can place three small pots in a triangle and catch the air between them on fire if they are hot enough.

[@kabeeirkhattar8177]

Best intro ever

[@kerbalairforce8802]

I've thought about using those little sterno burners that catering uses to keep food hot.

[@antiquatedspanner912]

9:30 I understood that reference, because I read it in 10th grade really good

[@GameCyborgCh]

a tea light burns for about 4 hours and puts out 40 Watts of heat. IIRC it's enough to prevent you from receiving frostbite, so some tea lights and a lighter should definitely be in anyone's bug-out bag

[@toecutterjenkins]

Im in the north east and have had many power outs in the cold. My goto is 20k btu Mr heater blue flame propane heater. Easy to store and set up ignites with a aa battery. 20lb tank will last a day or so on high. I have a wood stove that has got me through below zero temps in my underwear.

[@HyperboreanJihad]

Another thing to make these last much longer is stick a candle in a jar or can full of crisco it turns the candle into a much larger one that can burn for days

[@SahalRehman]

this might be the longest ad yet

[@1991USsoldier]

I flip over a camping pot (think steel canteen cup) and put a tea light candle under it. Prop the steel cup a few inches off the surface the candle is on so it can breathe and you've got a small heater. Just don't knock it over or you'll have a mess. You don't necessarily need bricks and a clay pot, although this clearly works. If all you have is a candle and a metal cup, you're still good to go.

[@amuseliese]

We legit did this during the Texas icepocalypse just to have a place to warm our hands aside from our own body heat for a bit!

[@Josh-of-all-Trades]

I live in a fairly cold climate (compared to Texas) and I can tell you there are a lot of ways to stay warm with no electricity. The trick is to be prepared for those things before it happens. Use the summer to get what you need and winterize your home in the late fall. Your car can give you electricity if you get a power inverter, but getting gas might be a problem if the gas stationhas no power. Think about those kinds of things.

[@amuseliese]

That was kind of the problem - we didn’t have a whole lot of warning for it. Our homes aren’t built for it, we don’t have the infrastructure for it, and some of us had zero utilities functional, and on top of that our roads were iced over underneath the snow. I keep saying I got lucky because I had plenty of propane and a way to cook outside. Our pipes didn’t freeze because our water provider just turned it off. We definitely did use our cars to charge up some devices, but we were entirely without phone service for the first day or so. Granted, I happen to be in an area that lost power, water, Internet, and phone service, as well as having roads that were completely iced over and no way to de-ice them. I think we kind of put most of our survival efforts here into dealing with the high summer temperatures and wavering between droughts and hurricanes, so this “hundred year blizzard“ was a real doozy!

[@willmfrank]

Y'all really need to get Lyle Lovett on Modern Rogue to perform that song in the studio.

[@0150r]

At about 30watts per candle, you're going to need 50 candles to be equivalent to a standard space heater.

[@AnimeWolf5193]

I could probably use this for my apartment porch.

[@cheeseymadness7391]

fairly sure you can put like lil aerials on there to disperse the heat from it into the room

[@fathermedic3774]

I love that you guys referenced the spy from tf2 such a good game

[@flyingninja1234]

The Modern Rogue dictionary, should definitely be a thing.

[@LogicalNiko]

Note an Inuit Qulliq (whale blubber/fat lamp) is not so much the equivalent single candle. Its a dish filled with fat/oil ranging on average from 6-inches to 12-inches across which can produce a pretty good flame size. In terms of heat output, you are talking a range of maybe ~8-15 tea lights to kerosene lantern, as a Qulliq was commonly used for both general heat, drying clothes overnight, and cooking.

[@joe7272]

those are very low tech and more resilient than something than like a diesel heater. The diesel does have the benefit of being under $200, vented externally, and can likely run on any standard oil.

[@PANNARALEJ]

Combine this, with your "How to make an oil lamp" video, and there. Try that, and see which works better.

[@djSpinege]

I actually used this last power outage and it never even raised my bedroom temp by one degree. i even had an upgraded version with 3 nested pots. worked well as a hand warmer though.

[@emersonpropst2886]

The idea isn't really to increase the overall temperature of the room but to have that hand warmer effect - give enough heat in a localised area to keep you from dying from the cold. I also have to wonder if you used enough candles, because I did something similar with 20 candles floating on a bowl of water without the pot in an attempt at a romantic evening and it raised the temperature of the entire apartment enough to make it uncomfortable within 30 mins.

[@ModernRogue]

☝️ this guy gets it.

[@djSpinege]

@@emersonpropst2886 that's a bit of a contradiction. is it a hand warmer or a survival heater? my upgraded version never raised the room temperature by even one degree. i was literally depending on it to bring room temp above freezing but failed to do so. luckily i had a 12v heated blanket and a car to spend the night in. cheers.

[@travcoman45]

@@djSpinege It is a handwarmer at best. To raise room temperature it would have to be very tiny. Heating an area is all about Btu's and there are not that many in those tiny candles. Anyone thinking this will save their pipes from freezing is going to be calling a plumber.

[@bagel7860]

TF2 Spy is always warm in the winter, I wonder why LOL

[@TheKillfish]

I never would've thought I'd hear TF2 get referanced, but I don't know why I'm surprised! The Mentlegen's Facewarmer

[@CaitiffFTW]

Other videos I've seen on this topic also suggest using washers, nuts, and bolts, to give a metal piece, in the hole in the ceramic, to allow more heat to be stored, more quickly. I don't know the extent to which that would affect the speed at which it would cool, once the fire is out, though.

[@cantseefuji]

I'm in Iowa and the past couple of weeks have been in the negatives. Wednesday hit -25 at one point

[@bsjeffrey]

if you have snow, you have water, although it may not be running.

[@bdmammoth4051]

The editor called EVERYONE out lol

[@luckyshark32]

Last time we lost power here I did basically this, using a scavenged large heat sink out of an old stereo. I got a room up about 5 degrees that way.