When I was growing up ...at one time we lived in a house with NO heater, NO kind of heat.

My mom bought us three Kerosene heaters and that is how we kept warm.

We had a 55 gallon tank outside and refilled it about three times a winter. The cost for a full tank was $50.

As an adult many decades later (in 2000) I moved to Atlanta and the power went out for three days.......I nearly froze and went out and bought two Kerosene heaters...then the power came back on.

At that time in Georgia kerosene was cheap fuel.

I never needed the kerosene heaters again there.

I then moved to New Mexico and still have my two brand new/never used kerosene heaters.

I know how to use them and care for them but out here

Kerosene is absolutely prohibitive in price running about

$8.00 a gallon.

At that current price a 55 gallon drum of kerosene would cost about $440.........then to go over winter minimun would be a whopping approximate cost of $1,320

Wow we have sure come a long way in cost of kerosene from my younger days.

Anyway......I got a Little Buddy and prepped up 6 tanks of propane.

I wish I could get cheap kerosene out here but not.

All else on your check list is pretty much already in my preps right down to the solar lights.

Now I have another story for you about using clear plastic to cover windows.

I lived in an apartment in ATLANTA...same one where the power went out.

The windows were just terrible with huge drafts.

One bedroom was especially horrible and got the full force of the winter winds.

I went to Big Lots and bought heavy gauge clear plast shower curtains. I put on over that drafty window and duck taped that sucker up to the window real tight.

The wind poured in that window so so much it actually caused the plastic to "bulge" outward into the apartment.

I looked at that thing and was just amazed at how well the duck tape held the plasttic to the window and that is how I survived that window in realive comfort.

Get the supplies now before you need them or wish to hell you had gotten them.