1. The obvious. Just use birth control to avoid becoming a statistic. If alone, then you need to get creative.
2. Enjoy the silence. With luck, your neighbors will all leave for warmer places and leave you in total solitude.
3. Go for a walk. It's exercise and it warms you up a bit.
4. Talk to neighbors, have a warm-up party. Misery loves company.
5. Cyber - talk/text on your cell till battery dies then go to Facebook and do the same until your laptop battery dies.
6. Eat or drink something or everything then do number 3. Alone it won't warm you up but it will fill you up.
7. Close the drapes and close doors to conserve what heat you have.
8. Kick yourself for not buying that battery powered lantern for your 72 hour kit. The kit that contains necessities like boxed wine, smoked oysters, bottled water and batteries for your handheld appliances.
9. Change the batteries in your smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors - this may be the only time they're in use so they're probably dead and that beeping sound is highly annoying. Just be careful on the stool or chair while trying to juggle the flashlight and insert the batteries.
10. Leave - also pretty obvious.
11. Rediscover radio. Our parents and grandparents did and it is still entertaining.
12. Go to bed and just hope you wake up when you need to.
