I haven’t seen my sister in over 2 years however my good friend and I keep in touch, however she lives in the deep south and I live just over the Mason-Dixon line… We joke about that a lot. Well Yesterday she called me and asked if she could stay with me for a little while. She said a genre 4 hurricane was headed her way and expected to make landfall close to her city… I said “yep” separate from a second thought, then my sister told me that, of course, she would be taking her pets with her. That gave me some pause! Of course I would take my pets if I was going to evacuate a major storm too however my sister keeps snakes and lizards as pets, despite myself I said, “no problem”! A few days later my sister arrived with 3 snakes and 2 rather big lizards. The pets were all in storage totes because she didn’t have a way to transport all of their tanks and heat lights. So that meant that the reptiles all needed some heat source so they would stay healthy. I already have the central furnace on in the home however the reptiles need a lot more heat than us moderate blooded people do. Thankfully my sister brought a space furnace with her. We ended up setting the reptiles up in the laundry room and plugging in the space heater. The space furnace has a thermostat so my sister just set it to about 90 degrees and the snakes and lizards stayed pretty comfortable. I wasn’t too comfortable when I had to do laundry though, but not only was it moderate although I didn’t like being around my sister’s pets.