by 4Patriots Contributor | Feb 5, 2024 | 4 Patriots
Winter Weather Safety Week is here, which means it’s time to talk about how to keep our essentials protected during power outages. One of the most common concerns we hear from our customers is how they can keep their refrigerators running to preserve food and...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Feb 1, 2024 | 4 Patriots
Seems like every year, Buffalo, New York gets blasted with a massive snowstorm. The combination of cold weather, sitting alongside Lake Erie, and being in the direct line of storms moving eastward is often the perfect storm for that city. This year is no exception....
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 31, 2024 | 4 Patriots
Quite a few years ago when our kids were young, I was driving with my 6-year-old son in the backseat. It was snowing and the highway was slick, so I was driving about 10 miles per hour under the speed limit. We were only about 15 minutes from home that night when the...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 31, 2024 | 4 Patriots
If we asked 100 people to name their top staple food items, we’d probably get 100 different answers. Canned or freeze-dried beans might be on one person’s list but not another’s. Nut butters could be on some lists but be missing from others. But I think just about...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 31, 2024 | 4 Patriots
More than 110 million Americans are expected to watch the Big Game a week from this Sunday. You may be one of them. Some people will watch it in restaurants and bars. Others will view it at parties. Some folks will sit quietly at home and watch it by themselves or...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 30, 2024 | 4 Patriots
With the recent arctic blast of cold air still fresh in our minds, keeping something cold doesn’t feel like much of a challenge. That unwelcome polar vortex covered nearly the entire country and resulted in ridiculously low temperatures for over a week. But now that...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 30, 2024 | 4 Patriots
With the seemingly unending winter storms continuing to pelt most of the nation, power outages are inevitable. In fact, millions of Americans have already lost power this winter. Due to blizzards, heavy rainfall, and tornadoes. There is plenty of winter weather to...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 24, 2024 | 4 Patriots
When was the last time you looked at a U.S. weather map and saw clear skies across the country? I honestly can’t remember the last time for me. And it’s not just isolated winter storms here and there. They’re all over the country almost every day. Some are so massive...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 23, 2024 | 4 Patriots
We’ve all heard plenty of stories about people who survived when lost in the wild. Some of them did it by using their wits. Some by eating berries. And others by hunting or fishing. But very few survived for long without finding a drinkable water source. Often that...
by 4Patriots Contributor | Jan 17, 2024 | 4 Patriots
Tick, tick, tick… Is anybody else hearing a ticking time bomb these days? If you’re keeping an eye on the news, I’m guessing you are. War in Ukraine between Russia and the country it attacked for no good reason. War in the Middle East following Hamas’ brutal attack...
