I haven’t seen my sister in over 2 years however my friend and I keep in touch, then she lives in the deep south plus I live just over the Mason-Dixon line, then my good friend and I joke about that a lot, and well Last month she called me plus asked if she could stay with me for a little while.
She said a type 4 hurricane was headed her way plus expected to make landfall close to her neighborhood; I said “yep” without a second thought.
Then my sister told me that, of course, she would be taking her pets with her. That provided 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 plus lizards as pets, however despite myself I said, “no problem”. A few days later my sister arrived with 3 snakes plus 2 rather giant lizards. The pets were all in storage totes because she didn’t have a way to transfer all of their tanks plus heat lights. So that meant that the reptiles all needed some heat source so they would stay healthy. I already have the central boiler on in the house however the reptiles need a lot more heat than us warm blooded people do. Thankfully my sister brought a space furnace with her. My good friend and I ended up setting the reptiles up in the laundry room plus plugging in the space heater. The space furnace has a temperature control so my sister just set it to about 90 degrees plus the snakes plus lizards stayed pretty comfortable. I wasn’t too comfortable when I had to do laundry though, and not only was it sizzling however I didn’t like being around my sister’s pets.