2 weeks below 0 degrees C

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Yes am really really not used to it ! Have tucked my hands into everywhere I can to warm up. Thank you for the suggestion , believe me , can use all the suggestions can possibly use . Heater is running but not being very impressive about the heat it is putting out .... mittens help and bathrobe over clothing seems to have helped , somewhat. Thank you .

OK, here's a hot tip. You can use a hair dryer under the covers in bed. Make a tent with your knees, and make sure that the sheets don't block the air going in or out. You'll feel toasty in minutes.

I feel your concern jakki, thanks for starting this thread. I'm from Texas we haven't had a winter in years. Now we have feet of snow, temps in the negatives and rolling power outages bc our grid can't keep up. And most of our wind turbines are frozen and they make up 23% of our power.

Thankfully I have 112lbs warm ball of fluff that likes to lay on feet or I don't think I'd be able to sleep.

Have only had power for 5 hrs in last 24hrs. Ugh. And our chimney needs cleaning so we can't light a fire bc we don't want to burn the house down.

Anyway, just complaining, but thanks for all this advice for those of us not used to this weather. Especially since oncor doesn't have time for our power to be back up

Am panicking a bit here now , temperatures are 25 degrees below freezing and my power here just went off .
This is 1st time ever have been here with the power going off in the winter.....I dont know what to do other than call 911. Might try the power company 1st .....25% battery life on tablet .

If your whole neighbourhood has lost power, the company knows about it. Your furnace probably depends on electricity, and the installer probably didn't leave an easy way to switch it onto an inverter running from a car battery, or a portable generator. Those things should arranged ahead of time. If your house is getting close to freezing, turn on your taps to drip, to avoid frozen pipes. It may take repeated adjustments to keep a steady, low flow. You can keep yourself warm in bed with over a dozen blankets. If you don't have plenty, you can put layers of loose clothes, rags, towels, etc. in between them.

One fall, my brother in law went to help a friend clean out his garage. He was given an old, portable generator for his help. My sister just went off on him for accepting this piece of junk to clutter their own garage instead. That winter, ice took out their power, and that generator was all they had for themselves and three neighbours for six weeks.

We have gone without electricity a few times but due to a fault where we had no funds to fix it. I took my camping gas stove to use instead to heat things up.

Having some camping and other outdoor equipment indeed helps in such situations.
Do you live in an apartament or a separate house? In apartament blocks, warmth runaway is slower thank to other flats around you (checked by an unintended experiment a few years ago - the temperature dropped only to 13C after two weeks empty and without heating, with -15C outside).

Camping stoves carry warnings against indoor use. If you use one like an ordinary gas stove, it is usually safe, but without a chimney, etc, a burner sometimes gets starved for oxygen and starts to produce very lethal carbon monoxide. If you get sleepy, turn it off. However, cups of tea are great for staying warm in bed.