I haven’t seen my brother in over 2 years but my friend and I keep in touch; She lives in the deep south and I live just over the Mason-Dixon line.
My friend and I joke about that a lot, however well Last year he called me and asked if he could stay with me for a little while.
She said a type 4 hurricane was headed his way and expected to make landfall close to his town! I said “yes” without a second thought! Then my brother told me that, of course, he would be taking his 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 but my brother keeps snakes and lizards as pets, but despite myself I said, “no problem”… A few afternoons later my brother arrived with 3 snakes and 2 rather giant lizards. The pets were all in storage totes because he didn’t have a way to move 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 property but the reptiles need a lot more heat than us moderate blooded people do. Thankfully my brother brought a space heating system with her. My friend and I ended up setting the reptiles up in the laundry room and plugging in the space heater. The space heating system has a control component so my brother 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 warm but I didn’t like being around my brother’s pets.