Nature's Answer To Heating Your Home

Solar power is one of Nature’s Answers to heating your home during a power outages. Early in the year 2000 my husband and I moved to southeast Oklahoma. Before that we had lived in the city and were not truly prepared for country living. We bought a beautiful place in a fairly remote area. Then the ice storm came. We huddled in our home and listen to the pine trees break all around us from the heavy accumulation of ice.

Our electricity had gone out. We had no generator, we had no wood-burning stove installed and we were miserably cold for nearly a month. Because our electric pole had broke and our home was hard to get to we remained without electricity for a week longer than our neighbors.

We installed a small wood-burning stove that we had recently purchased. It was small so it only warmed one room, but the one room was all we needed. We left the water dripping so our water didn’t freeze. We had plenty of canned goods so we were able to eat. We also had a few animals, which meant we had to get out every day and tend to them. All in all it was quite an experience to live through, not one I ever want to repeat.

I should have said is, one I will never repeat. There are a lot of reasons to put solar in your home.

1. To save on energy bills.

2. To save the environment.

3. Tax incentives.

4. To power remote cabins.

5. But the one that is closest and dearest to my heart is to provide power during an emergency.

Ice storms are not the only natural disasters. It seems the electrical power is interrupted more and more often. Solar is such a simple solution. Solar can be in your home, solar can light the walkways in your yard, solar can heat a greenhouse, and solar can be portable when you need to leave the area in a hurry as in a natural disaster. Solar just makes sense.


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