My eldery parent unit is snowed in their house in the midwest in a place where snowfall is mostly uncommon. The temps have been around 0 F and now has risen to 22 F, but with the snow the roads are unplowed and impassable.

Their furnace is barely keeping up to keep the place warm and the State officials are asking citizens to limit their temperatures to avoid overwhelming the utilities.

My father is nearly 90. I'm a little bit concerned. If the electricity goes out then there goes your heat and in those low temps it would be really difficult to stay alive stumbling around your dark house with hypothermia. He needs to buy a generator.