Shelter
Zero Degree Sleeping Bag
Rated for freezing conditions. Comfort rating and survival rating are different numbers; read the comfort one.
Scenario
The power went out in February and stayed out.
No monster, no infection. A cascading grid failure in the coldest month, and the repair crews cannot reach the substations because the roads are the same problem. Nothing is hunting anyone. It is simply very cold, indoors as well as out, and it does not stop being cold.
What kills you
Cold, boredom, and carbon monoxide — in that order.
Rules
Heating one person is achievable. Heating a house is not.
Rated for freezing conditions. Comfort rating and survival rating are different numbers; read the comfort one.
Most people who die in a long outage die of what they burned to stay warm.
An alarm for the gas you cannot smell. Essential anywhere you burn fuel indoors; check the sensor's stated lifespan.
Frozen pipes turn a cold week into a flooded one.
Double-walled steel that holds temperature for hours. The lid is what fails first; check it is replaceable.
The word doing the work in that name is 'indoor'. Check it twice.
A heater with an oxygen-depletion sensor and tip-over cutoff, designed for enclosed spaces. Ventilation is still required.
Every honest account of a long winter is mostly about boredom.
Hours of occupation on paper. Readable by lamplight, which is the point of the large print.
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